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The ten best short novels under 150 pages – chosen by experts

A novel doesn’t need to be a hefty tome to change your life. Forget War and Peace (1,200 pages) or Les Misérables (1,400 pages); these expert recommendations are under 150 pages – short enough to tear through over a weekend.

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Ben Markovits: ‘I used to think any book concerned with people falling in love can’t be very good’

The British-American author on arguing about Jane Austen, the joys of Jerome K Jerome, and revising his opinion of Philip Roth

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The Wanderers at Marylebone Theatre review: a deft study of Jewish identity in America

4/5 The man-child central character Abe can grate, but this play boasts an elegant structure and well-crafted jokes

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Ivan Klíma obituary

Czech novelist and playwright whose work was banned under communism

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'Peacemaker' Season 2 Episode 1 Ending Explained: James Gunn Expands On That Shocking Murder

The ending of 'Peacemaker' Season 2's first episode sets up a new journey for Chris Smith. But James Gunn says this idea doesn't come directly from comics.

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What if Hitler was assassinated and World War II ended in compromise? Catherine Chidgey imagines a parallel reality

Catherine Chidgey’s ninth novel, The Book of Guilt, has been hotly anticipated. Following the critical and commercial success of her last two novels, it was the subject of a bidding war between UK publishers. The Book of Guilt is also now the first of her books to be released in…

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

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

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An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story – but whose truth is it?

INSIDE FILM: ‘I’m Still Here’ is inspired by the ‘disappearance’ of a real-life congressman in Seventies Brazil, and directed by Walter Salles, a childhood friend of the congressman’s family. It’s just the latest in a strange sub-genre of historical fiction made by filmmakers with insider access, writes Xan Brooks –…

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‘It seemed wrong to write about normal life after that horrendous election’: US novelist Anne Tyler

At 83, The Accidental Tourist author discusses the secret to a good marriage, publishing her 25th book and why she can no longer keep politics out of her novels

The Guardian - UK

Is Donald Trump a fascist?

The US presidential election is neck and neck. But only one candidate has been compared to Adolf Hitler. Is it an exaggeration or based in fact?

The Guardian - UK

'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement

The National Book Foundation has awarded Barbara Kingsolver a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL), which has previously been given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Joan Didion among others

The Independent UK

‘You can’t murder a people and walk away scot-free.’ In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker explores morality in war

The first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.

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Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

The Guardian - UK

Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century

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‘You can write anything about sex, but you cannot talk about money’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on life after Fleishman

Her bestselling debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble, became a hit TV series. Now Taffy Brodesser-Akner is taking on the American dream

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Paul Auster obituary

Author of The New York Trilogy who conjured up a world of wonder and happenstance, miracle and catastrophe

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Power of Sail review – campus cancel culture drama ripe for a Netflix series

Paul Grellong’s gripping dialogue makes a brisk plot and unlikable characters immensely watchable as a Harvard professor invites a white supremacist for a debate

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Tristram Powell obituary

TV director who made dramas by some of the top screenwriters of the 1980s and 90s, such as Alan Bennett and Alan Plater

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How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto review – skilful skewering

A young scientist follows her discredited mentor to a university for cancelled academics in this dark, complex debut about the culture wars

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Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

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Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

The Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fiction

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Milan Kundera, Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris aged 94

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday

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Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera, author of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, dies at 94

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday.

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Bruno Schulz: An Artist, A Murder, and the Hijacking of History review – an extraordinary mind and a cruel death

Benjamin Balint’s biography of ‘writer’s writer’ Bruno Schulz conjures the fascinating life and afterlife of a genre-defying author and artist

The Independent UK

Max Porter: ‘Empower yourself to think carefully about men and masculinity’

As he releases his fourth novel, ‘Shy’, Max Porter talks to Patrick Sproull about the end of his ‘boyhood’ trilogy, sensitivity readers, and still reading Philip Roth and Ted Hughes

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