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11 Novels About Dysfunctional Families to Put You at Ease When You're Home for the Holidays

Looking for an escape from the family function? Read these books by Emma Straub, Zadie Smith, and more.

Marie Claire

Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart review – is this the future for America?

Set a decade from now, this coming-of-age caper offers a child’s-eye view of family troubles in a ‘post-democracy’ USA

The Guardian - UK

Gary Shteyngart: ‘Orwell made dictatorships seem a lot less sexy’

The Soviet-born novelist on rewriting the Torah, learning from Judy Blume, and why Vladimir Nabokov is ‘yum’

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Trip of the week: a gastronomic tour of Mexico City

“Mexico City’s global reputation has been on an upswing for some time”, and among its greatest glories is its food scene, says Gary Shteyngart in Condé Nast Traveller. It has some of the world’s best restaurants – it is on a culinary par with Paris or Bangkok – and in…

The Week

Life, death, intimacy and privilege: 4 works of COVID fiction – and what they say about us

Pandemics force us to face our mortality, prompting profound questions about life’s meaning. It is not surprising, therefore, that since the days of medieval plague outbreaks, infectious diseases have attracted the imagination of novelists. These stories operate as cautionary tales, holding humanity to account.

The Conversation

What links This England to Angelina Jolie, via Matt Hancock?

With the five-part drama coming to screens soon, we go down the pandemic rabbit hole with Michael Winterbottom, Daniel Pearl and Kenneth Branagh

The Guardian - UK

Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart review – Chekhov-inspired capers

Old friends escape New York to sit out the pandemic in a Covid satire whose references don’t travel well

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Gary Shteyngart: ‘We’re entering a time of permanent crisis’

The US satirist on why he had to find a UK publisher for his latest novel, his son’s Korean lessons, and the appeal of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

The Guardian - UK

Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart review – lockdown tragicomedy

A group of friends hole up in the countryside to ride out New York’s pandemic in the ‘Dacha of Doom’

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