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Zadie Smith's new book shows authors shouldn't publish every thought
A third book of essays from the literary powerhouse is patchy and strangely bloodless
inews.co.uk
I reviewed Zadie Smith's essay collection Dead and Alive and found it scrappy and predictable: inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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Read Palestine Week is coming up on 29 November-December 5.
A great way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. Also, it's good to read it because of its quality.
Why not take part and perhaps discover a talented writer you haven't read before.
A great way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. Also, it's good to read it because of its quality.
Why not take part and perhaps discover a talented writer you haven't read before.
Join READ PALESTINE WEEK November 29-December 5. This year, with a special focus on raising funds for Palestinian writers in Gaza.
publishersforpalestine.org/2025/11/11/j...
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Join READ PALESTINE WEEK 2025
Join us for this year’s READ PALESTINE WEEK, coming November 29-December 5.
publishersforpalestine.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Read Palestine Week is coming up on 29 November-December 5.
A great way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. Also, it's good to read it because of its quality.
Why not take part and perhaps discover a talented writer you haven't read before.
A great way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. Also, it's good to read it because of its quality.
Why not take part and perhaps discover a talented writer you haven't read before.
Yeah?
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Yeah?
Flesh by David Szalay wins the @thebookerprizes.com. Heres @keirangoddard.bsky.social's review - the best piece I read on it: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man
From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be alive
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Flesh by David Szalay wins the @thebookerprizes.com. Heres @keirangoddard.bsky.social's review - the best piece I read on it: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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From The Conservationist to Milkman... Ahead of tonight's @thebookerprizes.com winner ceremony, I chose my 13 best winners ever for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/book...
The 13 best Booker-winning novels of all time
Ahead of the 2025 award ceremony tonight, these are the judge's choices from previous years that have best stood the test of time
inews.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
From The Conservationist to Milkman... Ahead of tonight's @thebookerprizes.com winner ceremony, I chose my 13 best winners ever for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/book...
From The Conservationist to Milkman... Ahead of tonight's @thebookerprizes.com winner ceremony, I chose my 13 best winners ever for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/book...
The 13 best Booker-winning novels of all time
Ahead of the 2025 award ceremony tonight, these are the judge's choices from previous years that have best stood the test of time
inews.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
From The Conservationist to Milkman... Ahead of tonight's @thebookerprizes.com winner ceremony, I chose my 13 best winners ever for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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Reviewed The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It made me wonder if he made a Faustian pact, My Struggle was the reward and everything since the price www.ft.com/content/a728...
The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard — the author’s struggle continues
The Norwegian novelist continues his ‘Morning Star’ series with a deadpan tale of a self-aggrandising artist
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reviewed The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It made me wonder if he made a Faustian pact, My Struggle was the reward and everything since the price www.ft.com/content/a728...
The moment in last night's concert, which veered from sublime to ridiculous, when Laurie Anderson called Gertrude Stein "the mother of ai". Hmm
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The moment in last night's concert, which veered from sublime to ridiculous, when Laurie Anderson called Gertrude Stein "the mother of ai". Hmm
Reviewed The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It made me wonder if he made a Faustian pact, My Struggle was the reward and everything since the price www.ft.com/content/a728...
The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard — the author’s struggle continues
The Norwegian novelist continues his ‘Morning Star’ series with a deadpan tale of a self-aggrandising artist
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reviewed The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It made me wonder if he made a Faustian pact, My Struggle was the reward and everything since the price www.ft.com/content/a728...
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‘For many stately homes and historically significant buildings, ghosts continue to be marketable commodities, even if this sometimes makes things awkward for historians and curators.’
Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day · Gloomth: Haunted Houses
Haunted house stories tend to end in one of two ways: either the family flees, or the ghosts are soothed, and everyone...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
‘For many stately homes and historically significant buildings, ghosts continue to be marketable commodities, even if this sometimes makes things awkward for historians and curators.’
Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
One battle after another with edits this week. Reminds me of my favourite line from John Updike's letters (review coming soon) when he writes an editor from his deathbed: "No I do not want to see another proof."
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
One battle after another with edits this week. Reminds me of my favourite line from John Updike's letters (review coming soon) when he writes an editor from his deathbed: "No I do not want to see another proof."
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Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
You ignited a grassroots campaign, built on the radical idea that everyone deserves to live in dignity.
This is a seismic victory — not only for the people of New York, but for all those who believe that humanity & hope can prevail.
You ignited a grassroots campaign, built on the radical idea that everyone deserves to live in dignity.
This is a seismic victory — not only for the people of New York, but for all those who believe that humanity & hope can prevail.
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
You ignited a grassroots campaign, built on the radical idea that everyone deserves to live in dignity.
This is a seismic victory — not only for the people of New York, but for all those who believe that humanity & hope can prevail.
You ignited a grassroots campaign, built on the radical idea that everyone deserves to live in dignity.
This is a seismic victory — not only for the people of New York, but for all those who believe that humanity & hope can prevail.
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Mamdani's speech is SO GOOD: respectful, generous, sparkling.
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Mamdani's speech is SO GOOD: respectful, generous, sparkling.
Thrilled to see Helen Garner’s diaries win 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction. So well deserved. And what a result for creative nonfic... My interview with Garner from last year: www.ft.com/content/2f37...
Helen Garner, the greatest Australian writer you’re yet to read
Is one of the country’s finest writers about to get her moment in the sun? As three modern classics are republished in the UK, she talks to the FT
www.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Thrilled to see Helen Garner’s diaries win 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction. So well deserved. And what a result for creative nonfic... My interview with Garner from last year: www.ft.com/content/2f37...
I reviewed Salman Rushdie's The Eleventh Hour for today's @theipaper.com and found that the five stories encapsulate the best and worst of him: inews.co.uk/culture/book...
The Eleventh Hour is Salman Rushdie's haunting reckoning with mortality
His collection of short stories concerned with looming endings is a reminder of the writer's best and worst tendencies
inews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I reviewed Salman Rushdie's The Eleventh Hour for today's @theipaper.com and found that the five stories encapsulate the best and worst of him: inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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I reviewed Zadie Smith's essay collection Dead and Alive and found it scrappy and predictable: inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Zadie Smith's new book shows authors shouldn't publish every thought
A third book of essays from the literary powerhouse is patchy and strangely bloodless
inews.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I reviewed Zadie Smith's essay collection Dead and Alive and found it scrappy and predictable: inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.
'Give your money away,' Billie Eilish tells billionaires
The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.
I reviewed Zadie Smith's essay collection Dead and Alive and found it scrappy and predictable: inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Zadie Smith's new book shows authors shouldn't publish every thought
A third book of essays from the literary powerhouse is patchy and strangely bloodless
inews.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I reviewed Zadie Smith's essay collection Dead and Alive and found it scrappy and predictable: inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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whether it is feeding the hungry or taking bribes openly in the white house, both sides are problematic
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are set for a dramatic clash, with New York as its stage and victim. The city may soon become an arena for a fight between two men with bad ideas econ.st/4hAdMpv
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
whether it is feeding the hungry or taking bribes openly in the white house, both sides are problematic
The Guardian did something similar - like, 'check out these people who don't use ai', as if that makes them unusual - and yet I've never knowingly used the bloody thing and think it should be shutdown immediately
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Guardian did something similar - like, 'check out these people who don't use ai', as if that makes them unusual - and yet I've never knowingly used the bloody thing and think it should be shutdown immediately
I doubt reviewing books is anyone's idea of backbreaking work but getting so engrossed in writing a piece that I forget to stand up for four hours is exactly that
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I doubt reviewing books is anyone's idea of backbreaking work but getting so engrossed in writing a piece that I forget to stand up for four hours is exactly that
Something it took me a long time to learn and I'm reminded of today with deadlines looming: an hour in a library is worth two hours anywhere else
October 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Something it took me a long time to learn and I'm reminded of today with deadlines looming: an hour in a library is worth two hours anywhere else
Barghouti, a Palestinian unifier who learned Hebrew to negotiate with the Israelis, has been in prison for 20 years on a v flimsy pretext! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says
Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Barghouti, a Palestinian unifier who learned Hebrew to negotiate with the Israelis, has been in prison for 20 years on a v flimsy pretext! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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If this is how Israel treats its best known prisoners...
October 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
If this is how Israel treats its best known prisoners...
Someone sent me a proof of a book about ai so I robotically threw it in the recycling
October 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Someone sent me a proof of a book about ai so I robotically threw it in the recycling
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D'Angelo was remarkable in so many ways. I'm saddest right now, as a fan, that we won't be getting an eccentric late period from him. His contributions remain inestimable but what he would have made in his 50s and onward, I just know it would have been amazing. RIP
October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
D'Angelo was remarkable in so many ways. I'm saddest right now, as a fan, that we won't be getting an eccentric late period from him. His contributions remain inestimable but what he would have made in his 50s and onward, I just know it would have been amazing. RIP