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Where Have All the Grandparents Gone?

You can find forever-young baby boomer grandmas falling in love at 60 and novels about spirited older women finding self-fulfillment, but novels about grandparents’ relationships with their grandchildren seem in…

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Finding Comfort in Repetition

How many times do you need to reread Hamlet? Stephen Marche says he’s reread the play more than a hundred times. And all that reading has not been without effect. Marche…

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Open Endings

From Chekhov to Woolf, to Colin Barrett and Eliza Robertson, the Guardian explores unresolved endings in short stories.

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Book Covers Judge Back

The Guardian reports on a playful man bites dog story from Dutch design firm Moore: a book that judges potential readers by their covers. The prototype uses facial recognition to…

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Why Matilda Got Her Measles Shot

Since much of the rhetoric around recent outbreaks of the measles revolves around concern for the well-being of children, perhaps the strongest advocate to answer our concerns is a beloved…

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Shock and Awe

There’s a misconception about what is truly shocking – that the shocking is the purely explicit. It seems to me that’s easy, and it’s been done in literature for centuries.…

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Writers’ Wages Keep Falling

A not-too-surprising result of a new poll shows that authors’ annual wages continue to fall and are now below $5,000, reports the Guardian. Authors who split their writing between traditional and self-published…

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Rushdie Goes Medieval

Salman Rushdie, no stranger to controversy, now finds himself under scrutiny from a different sort of institution: the Times Literary Supplement. Michael Caines, writing for TLS, takes issue with Rushdie’s…

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There and Back Again

The Guardian profiles Alex Malarkey, co-author of the bestseller The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven. After admitting that, among other things, he’s never actually been there, his publisher looks…

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The Games Writers Play

The Guardian looks at the different games writers play to take their minds off of their work, including chess, poker, and Minecraft.

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Memoir by Guantanamo Prisoner Published

After partial redaction and six years of legal battles, Guantanamo Diary is now the first-ever published book by a current Guantanamo detainee. Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned there since…

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Carol Ann Duffy’s First Ladies

In a playful reflection on the work and philosophy of poet Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson explores the possibilities for storytelling, feminism, and everyday entertainment through poetry. Winterson excerpts poems…

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