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Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance

In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hope

The Guardian - UK

Silent Catastrophes by WG Sebald review – academic writing at its most sterile

A collection of professional leftovers that can only diminish the posthumous reputation of a master of high literature

The Guardian - UK

The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas review – the power of love

Two men in midlife navigate their growing desire to commit to each other in a changing Australia

The Guardian - UK

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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – the Booker winner’s beautiful, unclassifiable memoir-cum-novel

In seeking to understand his parents and his life, Flanagan merges memory and fiction to ponder the random nature of existence, resulting in a masterpiece of subtlety and depth

The Guardian - UK

‘I want some light in my life’: eight writers make their new year reading resolutions

Finding fun, getting lost in an epic and taking a first peek at science fiction ... Sathnam Sanghera, Elif Shafak, Sarah Waters and more make their reading resolutions for 2024

The Guardian - UK

Writing is a 'questionable business', but what to make of John Hughes, one of the most prolific plagiarists in literary history?

In June of last year, the Guardian revealed that John Hughes’ Miles Franklin-longlisted novel The Dogs contained material lifted from The Unwomanly Face of War, a book by Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. When approached about this, Hughes apologised for the transgression, describing the plagiarism as unintentional.

The Conversation

Why Read review: Talented pedagogue Will Self steers clear of bad juju

EAST Kilbride, 1974: I’m 12 and I buy 10cc’s Sheet Music then bug my old man for hours about the lyrics. Dad, what’s a palooka? What does…

The National (Scotland)

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Top 10 road novels

Quests across continents, journeys into the past, family holiday disasters or wild dreams of a new life – here are your escape routes

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

The Natural History of Destruction review – a harrowing account of aerial warfare

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s strikes a moral equivalence between the British and Germans in a second world war documentary that offers no clear conclusion

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