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UNBELIEVABLE: Ali smith - The Untold Story

The Smart, Scandalous and Seriously Hyped Books to Read This February

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Marie Claire

Primate to Tyler Ballgame: the week in rave reviews

Johannes Roberts directs a concise chimp-gone-wild shocker, and the critically loved crooner releases his debut album. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

The Guardian - UK

Industry’s Faustian pact, a Welsh detective drama, and the return of Bridgerton – what to watch, read and listen to this week

I don’t think my new year’s resolution – to take a lunch break every day – would much impress the cast of Industry. In the BBC show’s fourth series, the idea that work might pause politely at midday feels almost quaint, like a relic of a slower moral universe.

The Conversation

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Ali Smith’s Glyph is an exhilarating and excoriating follow-up to Gliff

Ali Smith’s Glyph is the companion novel to her earlier novel, Gliff (2024). Gliff was set in a surreal near-future dystopia. Glyph, meanwhile, is set in the present. But like Smith’s earlier Seasonal Quartet, it offers the reader an uncanny version of our world, haunted by ghostly voices from the…

The Conversation

Glyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in Gaza

This second novel in a sharp duology offers a powerful interrogation of language in the age of mechanical mass destruction

The Guardian - UK

Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more

In our always online, AI-imperilled lives, simply looking at a painting can improve wellbeing and offer creative guidance. For my new book, artists and writers shared their advice on how to live life artfully

The Guardian - UK

Influential women urge Labour to include asylum seekers in plan to tackle violence

Exclusive: Letter warns of ‘two-tier’ system if asylum seekers are excluded from promise to halve violence against women and girls

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Dining across the divide: ‘He didn’t believe women still face discrimination in the workplace’

They had different views on gender equality. Could they agree on the European convention on human rights?

The Guardian - UK

Syrian general says missing US journalist Austin Tice was killed

Bassam Hassan, a top general under Assad, reportedly gave news regarding American who went missing in 2012

The Guardian - US

The ten best novels of 2024 – according to literary experts

With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation UK, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction. From Samantha Harvey’s spellbinding Booker winner Orbital to…

The Conversation

Fortnum & Mason apologises for party snub to UK Paralympians

Olympians and Paralympians attended a Buckingham Palace reception, but only the former were asked to a following event hosted by the luxury food retailer

The Guardian - UK

Scents of the Middle Ages and emo nostalgia – what you should read, watch and do this week

I’ve always been a history nerd, but it wasn’t until I started working at The Conversation that I really caught the medieval bug. Inspired by our academic experts, I’ve read books, trawled online archives, and when I worked on an article about the Book of Kells earlier this year, I…

The Conversation

Gliff by Ali Smith review – reading the signs of crisis

Two children decode a dystopia, in a chilling and wistful novel that speaks to our times

The Guardian - UK

Gliff by Ali Smith review: a poetic, dystopian puzzlebox

“See what a simple line, a visible mark of the utmost simplicity and cheapness, can do to a populace?” In Ali Smith’s new novel, Gliff, that line is painted in crude bright red around the houses of those the state has deemed “unverified”. It means ostracisation, re-education and worse. It…

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Ali Smith’s new novel Gliff is a dystopian nightmare with flashes of fairytale enchantment

Ali Smith’s Gliff is set “once upon a time, not very far from now”. It is a kind of fairytale of the future in which two children, Briar and Rose, navigate a world which seems increasingly baffling and hostile.

The Guardian - UK

Gliff by Ali Smith review – a warning from the near future

The author of the seasonal quartet projects her exceptional state-of-the-nation storytelling on to a dystopian tale of a brutal Britain run by totalitarian forces

The Guardian - UK

Autumn review – Ali Smith adaptation has humour and charm in spades

It is a treat to see this kaleidoscopic meditation on stories and the nature of time brought to the stage, even if at times the play struggles to hold the full weight of its ideas

The Guardian - UK

The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami

The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide

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Eley Williams: ‘I trusted people far less once I’d finished that novel’

The writer on how a creepy, psychological thriller blew her 13-year old mind, her early outrage at unreliable narrators and taking comfort in Saki

Fortune

Pets make for the best financial advisers and motivators. They force you to be more mindful about your spending, study shows

Pets inspire good money habits such as long-term investments and emergency savings.

The Guardian - UK

VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction

Judges praised Klein’s Doppelganger for its ‘courageous’ study of truth in politics and called Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night a ‘masterpiece’ of historical fiction

The Guardian - UK

New York v Norwich: what my move across the Atlantic taught me

What happens when a native New Yorker uproots her life and moves to Norfolk?

Homes & Gardens

The best types of flooring for pets – floor coverings that work for you and your four-legged friends

Designers and pet trainers reveal the best types of flooring for pets, so you and your animals can live harmoniously without frequent messes or damage

The Guardian - UK

The experts: photographers on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to vastly improve your pictures

You don’t need an expensive camera – a smartphone can capture a great shot. Just move that plastic bag out of the frame, make your subject laugh and practise your selfies

Homes & Gardens

Why does my dog scratch my bed sheets? Expert insights from behavior specialists

Do the scent and style of your bed sheets drive your dog crazy? Here's how to soothe your pet and save your sheets

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