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In the winter of 1994, I stayed with my grandmother for a couple of weeks while my aunt, her full-time carer, was travelling. It wasn’t an imposition. I’d lived with my grandparents until I was eight years old, so to be back in that dim but beloved house was like…

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No time for tomes like these

Letters: Daunted by Proust or Joyce? Letters from Ian Arnott, Mike Bromberg and Andrew Keeley on giving up on a long read

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Giles Havergal obituary

Artistic director of the Glasgow Citizens theatre with a reputation for extravagant productions and a daring repertoire

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Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’

The Oscar winner answers your questions about playing everyone from Peter Sellers to the Marquis de Sade, his home town of Toowoomba and new care-home horror The Rule of Jenny Pen

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The South by Tash Aw review – an intimate epic begins

Two boys on the brink of adulthood in 1990s Malaysia, in the opening volume of a Proustian quartet

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The Loves of My Life by Edmund White – sex on the brain… and in the bathhouse

The American author’s anthology of his many physical encounters is a spiritual quest as much as a sensual one

The Guardian - UK

The American No by Rupert Everett review – blackly comic short stories

The actor, writer and director mines his own backlog of unmade projects to create an exhilarating collection

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‘Writing this book was like a drug high’: Rachel Kushner on her Booker-listed novel

The author on her party years in San Francisco, why she loves getting older and her most ambitious novel yet

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As I slide into my ninth decade there are many things I regret, and some days the list is endless

Being in the late evening of life we learn to reflect, to meditate on things lost and gained, to contemplate a society alien to the one we knew as children. But it doesn’t mean engagement in the world is less

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Sigrid Nunez: ‘When I was growing up I wanted to be Dr Seuss’

The American author on the greatness of Tolstoy, the joy of Jamaica Kincaid and her insatiable appetite for fairytales

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Fury v Usyk capable of the gravitas of an era when boxing held sport’s greatest prize

This fascinating clash of character and style will provide the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the 21st century

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Richard Armitage: ‘I used to stand on the Lord of the Rings to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe’

The actor and author on his love of fantasy fiction, the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, and why he doesn’t want a second bite of Proust

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Have we reached peak China? Inside the 15 September Guardian Weekly

China’s economic crisis. Plus: ChatGPT and Proust

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Q&A: ‘Barbie’ filmmaker Greta Gerwig on art, commerce and embracing the mess

Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby

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Melvyn Bragg: ‘At 83, time goes round too quickly’

The broadcaster and writer on revisiting childhood for his nostalgic memoir, the genius of George Orwell, and his love of dancing

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Vermeer will never look the same after Amsterdam exhibition

Connections, reflections, vibrations between his paintings will shine at the Rijksmuseum as never before

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Colin Thubron: ‘Simone de Beauvoir altered my ideas about women’

The travel writer and novelist on reading The Second Sex as an 18-year-old, discovering Proust, and the brilliance of Byron

The Independent UK

Nothing says Christmas like a weird and wonderful family food tradition

Every family has one and every one is different. For Sean Russell, it’s called Concoction

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‘If I’d seen this film at 15, I’d have lost it’: Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman on their Afrofuturist musical

The married directing duo fought tooth and nail to bring their dazzling film Neptune Frost to the screen. They explain why all the hardship was worth it

The Hindu

When your life is an open computer

Authorities want to know every single detail, and happily, every single detail is exactly what I have always wanted to share with nameless, faceless workers sitting in nameless, faceless towns and cities

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Either/Or by Elif Batuman review – adventures in literature and life

The further chronicles of a Turkish-American student in the 1990s showcase a wonderfully idiosyncratic comic voice

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People are loud and annoying – and I can’t get enough of them

Cities, trains, a Paris weekend… It’s noisy and busy, and I didn’t realised how much I had missed it, says Emma Beddington

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Edmund White: ‘My earliest reading memory is a lady toad with a nasty temper’

The author on discovering Death in Venice, being snobbish about Proust, and the dark side of Waugh

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