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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy – a boundary pushing work of which the modernist would be proud

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein is Deborah Levy’s latest genre-defying novel. It is at once a compelling contemporary fiction and an extended meditation on the importance of Stein, who Levy describes as the godmother of modernism, a queer icon, a self-declared genius and a writer who has baffled…

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My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining

Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in Paris

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Friday essay: tai chi helped me navigate grief and loss. Its story spans ancient China to Lou Reed

Between the end of a summer that had been going on too long and the beginning of a too-warm autumn that would crank up my climate change anxiety to ten, I joined a tai chi class.

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These are my 6 favourite books that can be read in less than a day

From Claire Keegan's ‘Small Things Like These’ to Vincenzo Latronico's ‘Perfection’, these novellas are less than 200 pages

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Sun, sea, and strained relationships: Andor's Fiona Shaw and Barbie's Emma Mackey play a mother and daughter on the brink in new drama Hot Milk

Big Screen Spotlight | Oppressive summer heat and strained family dynamics collide to create a fascinating portrait of a mother and daughter in Hot Milk

Total Film

The boom in health memoirs and what they can tell us about being human

IN FOCUS: Nick Duerden speaks to the writers who’ve spilled their vulnerabilities onto the page, and asks why readers are flocking to books about the spirit of survival

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‘A mix of vaudeville and David Lynch’: the hit play about a giant rabbit on a psychoanalyst’s couch

Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how it came about

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Hot Milk review – Fiona Shaw a fierce fly in simmering erotic soup

A cantankerous Shaw undercuts her daughter’s summer sexual awakening in this interestingly elusive adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel

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I Tried the Viral $135 BiotySpa Body Sculpt Kit and Wow, It Lived Up to the Hype

I saw a difference after just one use.

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The Position of Spoons, and Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy review – portrait of the artists

Levy reflects on the creative women who have inspired her, in essays that range from the trivial to the profound

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The Position of Spoons and Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy review – an absorbing essay collection

The award-winning author’s thoughts on JG Ballard, Colette and…lemons

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Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’

Her ‘living autobiographies’ and novels have earned her legions of fans, but that success was hard won. Deborah Levy talks about stamina, boldness, and finding delight in the details

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Deborah Levy: ‘Writing and swimming help each other’

The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in January

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Swimming Home review – post-trauma at the poolside

A self-conscious adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel makes glib reference to the Bosnian war while it focuses on unsexy erotic tension at a luxury villa

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Best books to gift (and gift again) at Christmas: The Independent newsroom make their picks

CHRISTMAS 2025: When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

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The books we give as gifts

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

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Friday essay: how women writers helped me find my voice after divorce

When my 25-year marriage broke down in 2017, I did what I always do in my life, especially in times of crisis. I turned to books. Specifically, to books by women.

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Top 10 books about solitary living

Finding your way without the social template of romantic love is a tough challenge, but writers from Deborah Levy to Hanya Yanagihara offer clues to how it can be done

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The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

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Update your beach read: 52 books for summer 2023, with some themes in mind

Let’s try something new this summer.

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Anyone who’s lost a loved one knows the pressure to visit shrines to the past. But it doesn’t always help

Four years after my husband’s death, the question of where to locate my grief still isn’t easy to answer, says the writer Kat Lister

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Deborah Levy unspools the pandemic experience in August Blue

DEBORAH Levy majors in that mood indigo. You ain’t been blue as Elsa M Anderson, the central character of her new novel. Elsa wakes up one morning…

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The best new books released in May, as selected by avid readers and critics

A beautiful grifter, a defiant prodigy and a political prisoner star in this month’s best books, which our critics describe variously as "utterly engaging", "beguiling" and "profound".

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How do we remake ourselves after unravelling? Plunge into life and pay attention, suggests Deborah Levy's mesmerising new work

The opening sentence of Deborah Levy’s new novel August Blue contains the germ of the whole: “I first saw her in a flea market in Athens buying two mechanical dancing horses.” Its simplicity and specificity are classic Levy – and yet it’s loaded with mystery. Who is this woman? Why…

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