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Under Water by Tara Menon review – love, loss and a longing for the ocean
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1047+ words) Marissa is working as a travel writer without leaving her desk, coining gleaming descriptions of untouched...Marissa is working as a travel writer without leaving her desk, coining gleaming descriptions of untouched...
Life of Pi author Yann Martel: ‘I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts… then I started getting ideas’
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1557+ words) writing studio, where he sits while we talk over Zoom, is a mere 10ft by 12ft; beyond his treadmill desk...writing studio, where he sits while we talk over Zoom, is a mere 10ft by 12ft; beyond his treadmill desk...
The best memoirs and biographies of 2025
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (1156+ words) Who wants to read about someone sitting at a desk messing up blank sheets of paper?”...Who wants to read about someone sitting at a desk messing up blank sheets of paper?”...
Kiran Desai: ‘I never thought it would happen in the US’
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (256+ words) her home on a quiet street in Queens, where she migrates daily from her kitchen table to an upstairs desk...
‘There’s a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable’: novelist Alan Hollinghurst
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (256+ words) wondering, he says, about the connection between the 29-year-old who started writing in pages of a desk...
Natalie Haynes: ‘I’ll never read anything by a Brontë again’
11+ mon, 4+ day ago (455+ words) It never migrates back from my desk to the bookshelf. We have unfinished business, I assume....
In Her New Memoir, Siri Hustvedt Captures Life With, And Without, Paul Auster
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1288+ words) A desk held a small travel typewriter, an Olivetti, and next to it, his larger Olympia....
‘There’s only one bed’, ‘fake dating’ and ‘opposites attract’: how tropes took over romance
7+ mon, 5+ hour ago (532+ words) Sports romance. University sports romance. Ivy League university sports romance!...It’s fairly obvious that the “enemies-to-lovers” trope is at play here – and “sports romance”, too....
Wise by Frank Tallis review – how to turn your midlife crisis into a hero’s journey
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (912+ words) into the geeky preoccupations of my youth, such as founding poetry clubs and playing niche racket sports...into the geeky preoccupations of my youth, such as founding poetry clubs and playing niche racket sports...
‘A glimpse of genius’: what do unpublished stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author?
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (1507+ words) When she died, the writer left behind a cache of notebooks and manuscripts. Her biographer reveals what they tell us about her unlikely rise to literary stardomWhen To Kill a Mockingbird was published in the summer of 1960, it seemed to…...