nothing in the rulebook
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Tag: literature
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The first time Dan told me he would kill himself, he was at the top of a flight of stairs, looking down at me…
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As democracies around the world face unprecedented challenges, amid ongoing climate breakdown, we bring you inspiring quotes from famous writers and thinkers to inspire change.
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Sophie McDonald considers the giant planetary forces that influence the choosing of fictional character’s names.
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She works her fingers into an old stump, down to the soft splinters, the harmless pricks that goad no more, that turn to pulp beneath persuasive hands. She runs her fingers over a stone, dwells on its round perfection, long in birth and long in death, a moment etched on a compendium of etchings. She rakes her…
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Sometimes, it seems, spoilers really can be a matter of life and death.
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An elephant is easily capable of killing a human…
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Piecing together the legacy of Ezra Maas means piecing together the book, tracing the ghosts behind the lines, writes Ellen Lavelle
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There are some books that make you forget where you are, and transport you instantly, silently, into new worlds and places. Roger McKnight’s Hopeful Monsters short story collection – published by Storgy press in London – is one of these books. Seemingly from the first page, you find yourself displaced, to a Minnesota summer, where…
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How can men get away from their “bulbous salutations” and descriptions of women as empty vassals for them to have sex with, and start writing sex that is actually good?
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Few writers consistently and exuded as much visionary force as beloved author Toni Morrison, who has died today at the age of 88. The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. In her stunning Nobel prize acceptance speech (which…
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