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Two Women by Jacqueline Rose review – a memorial to Gillian Rose
The connections between the author’s sister and the German Jewish philosopher Edith Stein are vividly imagined in alternating chapters of a fictional biography In a long and distinguished career as a feminist cultural critic, Jacqueline Rose has combined psychoanalysis, politics, human rights and…
Two Women by Jacqueline Rose review – a memorial to Gillian Rose
The connections between the author’s sister and the German Jewish philosopher Edith Stein are vividly imagined in alternating chapters of a fictional biography In a long and distinguished career as a feminist cultural critic, Jacqueline Rose has combined psychoanalysis, politics, human rights and…
The Bookshop That Only Opens When It Rains
It was raining the night I found the bookshop. Not the polite kind of rain that mists the pavement — the kind that sends everyone else hurrying home, collars up, umbrellas tilted against the wind. Every shop on the street had gone dark except one, where warm light spilled out of a narrow window and…
Narrative threads: How to write a Booker-shortlisted novel, by Marlon James, Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout and more
A trip to the Scottish islands, a psychological experiment, a chance encounter in a drugstore… the finalists for this year’s Booker prize reveal their inspirations Who knows where a novel really comes from? I spend years gathering loose threads and then, when I feel like the cloth will hold, I…
Narrative threads: How to write a Booker-shortlisted novel, by Marlon James, Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout and more
A trip to the Scottish islands, a psychological experiment, a chance encounter in a drugstore… the finalists for this year’s Booker prize reveal their inspirations Who knows where a novel really comes from? I spend years gathering loose threads and then, when I feel like the cloth will hold, I…
7 Books That Weigh the Choice of Motherhood
When I began trying to get pregnant, I didn’t know exactly why I wanted to have a child, but I knew my parents had something to do with the desire. Not directly: They never told me I should have children and would never have pressured me into making a decision either way. I felt their […] The post…
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. * 1. The Calamity
Latest Sarah J Maas book becomes UK’s fastest-selling adult fantasy novel
A Court of Splintered Harmony also records biggest single week of sales since Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman in 2015 Sarah J Maas’s long-awaited return to her bestselling romantasy series has smashed UK sales records, with A Court of Splintered Harmony becoming the fastest-selling adult fantasy…
TELEVISION Walks the Tightrope Between Reality and Performance
In Television, Lauren Rothery’s debut novel, the narrative switches between the interior monologues of Hollywood hopefuls, mainly Verity and Helen. Forever friends, sometimes lovers, they come to Los Angeles separately but for the same reason: to escape from somewhere else. Hollywood, however, is…
Carrie at 50: Brian De Palma’s fiery masterpiece still has the power
The Oscar-nominated 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s high school horror remains heartbreaking and horrifying in equal measure Often when a pop culture figure, whether real or fictional or somewhere in between, is described as an eternal teenager, it refers to an image of youthful vitality. Carrie…
October’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Yiyun Li’s Music Against the Night, and Bonnie Garmus’s Peck & Peck all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Partita by Barbara
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
"And it is so simple... You will instantly find how to live."
LagosLife enters a fictional breakup letter on Substack
Aduragbemi Akintepede’s 8 October short story uses the game in a romance that turns sour.
