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Light and Thread by Han Kang review – a tantalising book of reflections
20+ hour, 48+ min ago (213+ words) This prose work from the Nobel literature winner opens up her novels and offers beautiful imagery Much of the appeal of Han's work is in its mystery, the gaps she leaves for the reader to close. So it is tantalising…...
Daisy Johnson: ‘I wasn’t a fan of David Szalay, but Flesh is a masterpiece’
15+ hour, 47+ min ago (462+ words) The Booker-shortlisted author on a momentous teenage encounter with The Bone People, getting a buzz from Peter H'eg's Miss Smilla, and trying to avoid The Lorax My earliest reading'memory Memories from my childhood are opening up as I read to…...
Official BookTok chart set to launch in the UK
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (256+ words) Offering a monthly Top 20 rundown, the ranking will combine retail sales data with social media engagement on TikTok An official "BookTok" chart is set to launch later this year in the UK, offering a monthly rundown of the the most…...
If Ridiculous, Cheesy TV Dramas Keep Showing Up In Your Feed, Congrats—You’re In The New Era Of Romance Fantasies
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1002+ words) The Rise Of Romance Tropes In Vertical Dramas, Explained'BuzzFeed As a Writer at BuzzFeed, I write and curate quizzes, listicles, and articles about everything from pop culture and history to food and fashion. I remember when I first saw The…...
Quiz books surge in sales to their best year ever, while nonfiction takes a slide
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (660+ words) The success of TV spinoffs such as The 1% Club Quiz Book shows a growing market for puzzles as readers crave escape from the news cycle and endless doom-scrolling While watching University Challenge or Only Connect, the impulse to shout out…...
Gisèle Pelicot and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among Hay Festival 2026 speakers
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (648+ words) The line-up for this year's festival includes Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Ian McEwan and other prominent authors and figures Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Gis'le Pelicot are among the headline names appearing at Hay festival 2026, organisers have announced....
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester review – a battle between millennials and boomers
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (998+ words) There are sharply observed pleasures to be found in this black comedy of infidelity, revenge and intergenerational tension " but the plot is both implausible and predictableJohn Lanchester has distinguished between his nonfiction and his novels as the line between "things…...
A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello review – a profound exploration of the inner life
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (389+ words) How are we to account for things that lie outside ordinary language? A woman's emotions are precisely observed in a novel that brilliantly captures what it means to be human In each of her previous novels and story collections, the…...
Saba Sams: ‘I’ve no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again’
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (609+ words) The Send Nudes author on rereading Lorrie Moore, finding Dodie Smith at the right time, and the enduring brilliance of Muriel Spark My earliest reading memoryI remember reading Jacqueline Wilson aloud to my mum in the car. I think it…...
From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (345+ words) AI "twins, Mar-a-Lago lookalikes, Melania impersonator conspiracies " doubles proliferate in todays culture " and nowhere more so than in a series of unsettling new novels that draw on a rich gothic tradition to tap into our paranoid times From spyware as…...