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How interwar fiction made sense of an increasingly noisy world

Noise was first considered a public health issue in interwar Britain – called the “age of noise” by the author and essayist Aldous Huxley. In this era, the proliferation of mechanical sounds, particularly the rumble of road and air traffic, the blare of loudspeakers and the rising decibels of industry,…

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Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World review – sex, squalor and jungle sweat for an eternal outsider

Artists as varied as Sarah Lucas, Gwen John and Georg Baselitz are called upon by critic-curator Hilton Als to chime with the writer of Wide Sargasso Sea

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Passion, integrity and self-reliance: why Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a heroine for our times

In our guides to the classics, experts explain key literary works.

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I Want to Talk to You by Diana Evans review – sparkling essays

In this invigorating collection the novelist takes in Jean Rhys, James Baldwin, and how real life makes it into fiction

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Horror, satire, tawdry wealth and postcolonial critique: 5 classics to catch up on this summer

I’ve dedicated my professional life to reading and teaching the English classics. The crucial thing about classics is that they start as cutting-edge literary experiments.

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

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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Five of the best books inspired by classic novels

It’s unsurprising that literary inspiration comes to writers – here are those who have taken homage to new heights

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‘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

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Woman, modernist, West Indian: the haunted life of Jean Rhys

The life of Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys is at once well-known and mysterious. Her career dipped and soared across both halves of the last century, across changes of name (Ella Gwendoline “Gwen” Rees Williams, Ella Lenglet, Jean Rhys) and changes of location (West Indies, England, Europe).

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What links Jean Rhys to Salman Rushdie? The Saturday quiz

From americium to cli-fi, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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Review: 'I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys,' by Miranda Seymour

NONFICTION: The author of "Wide Sargasso Sea" had a complicated and turbulent life.

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The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer review – the art of bowing out

From Roger Federer to Bob Dylan, George Best to Jean Rhys, Geoff Dyer roams widely in this finely crafted study of endings

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I Used to Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour – beyond the Sargasso Sea

A new biography of Jean Rhys explores the relationship between her turbulent life and her brilliant work

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I Used to Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour review – the troubled life of Jean Rhys

The author emerges from this compelling biography as a difficult outsider whose twin passions were feckless men and drink

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Where to start with: Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys’s prequel to Jane Eyre, is a set text in schools but are you familiar with the rest of the Dominica-born writer’s work? This handy guide from her biographer will help you find a way in

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