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BIZARRE: 2 - What They Never Told You

20 of the best supernatural books for splendid spooking

Lovecraftian tales featuring creatures of the night

Evening Standard

Sargent and Fashion review – tragicomic travesty is a frock horror

Sargent’s gloriously rich and subtle paintings can’t be reduced to dreary facts about hats, dresses and opera gowns. Sadly, that’s just what’s happened

The Guardian - UK

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – end of the affair

This tale of later-life lovers explores what happens to desire as the body’s powers wane with age

The Guardian - UK

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The week in classical: The Turn of the Screw; Wolf Witch Giant Fairy – review

A formidable cast excels in an ingenious, small-scale production of Britten’s ghostly chamber opera; Red Riding Hood clashes with a warbling witch. Plus, a night in with the other Mendelssohn

The Guardian - UK

In adopting suffragettes as role models, Just Stop Oil is painting itself into a corner

Attacking Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus failed to achieve votes for women in 1914, so why do it again?

The Guardian - UK

The Best Netflix Thriller of the Year Reveals a Controversial New Trend

In his final work for Netflix, Mike Flanagan and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are inventing a new kind of television adaptation.

Inverse

Why liberalism drives some people crazy

Examining the psychological demands that liberalism imposes on the modern citizen

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This week’s essential guitar tracks: from a former Megadeth shredder’s Pink Floyd cover to Dumble-assisted slide brilliance

Fresh six-string inspiration from Joe Bonamassa, Voice of Baceprot, Cory Wong, Alice Cooper, Rivers of Nihil, Duff McKagan and oh so many more

Guitar World

Brandon Taylor: ‘Writing is the most fun I’m capable of having’

The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel

The Guardian - UK

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright review – how can one novel contain so much?

Linguistically commodious and panoramically plotted, Wright’s 700-page monster would have given Henry James a heart attack – but it has so much to say

The Guardian - AU

Parents of quintuplets 'devastated' after 'amazing angel' three-day-old son dies

Henry James, was the fifth of two boys and three girls, born through caesarean section on Sunday, before sadly passing away at three days old

Daily Mirror

Valentine's Day: why you should send a love letter not a text – with help from some of English’s greatest writers

Most of us, these days, communicate via text message, email and posts on social media. The age of the letter, it seems, is past.

The Conversation

Melodramatic potboilers, worthy classics and DIY escapism: a brief history of the beach read

“Like most people I read a book or two on holiday,” says Stuart, a character in Julian Barnes’ 1991 novel Talking it Over. He does not have time for recreational reading; it must wait until he is at leisure. His best friend, the erudite but erratically employed Oliver, derides this…

The Conversation

I’m not stoned, I’m just writing an opera! Colm Tóibín on how he got diva fever

From schoolboy trips to booze-ups with New York garbage men, the novelist recalls how he fell for the fabulous world of opera – and managed to break in, with a staging of his book about Henry James

The Guardian - UK

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In death as in life, the Queen remains steeped in tradition of royalty

“We all feel a bit motherless today,” wrote Henry James after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. And that’s the feeling lots of people have as they line up along the route of the Queen’s coffin today to salute the longest reigning monarch. Victoria had reigned from the age…

The Guardian - UK

I’m going through hell for the sake of art. Tolstoy or Henry James could learn a thing or two

There’s nothing like recording an audiobook to make you question every word you write. The classics would definitely take a trim

The Independent UK

Best hotels in East Sussex for romance and sea views

Enjoy East Sussex’s fantastic foodie spots and walking routes during your stay

ABC News

From Tim Winton to Michael Robotham and Sarah Krasnostein, celebrated writers share their favourite re-reads

Miles Franklin winner Tim Winton, crime writer Michael Robotham, non-fiction author Sarah Krasnostein and others share the books they re-read for inspiration, comfort and insight.

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Salon

The excitement of conspiracy theories

The fantasy that one is smarter than the rest of the "sheeple" can lead to self-delusion

The Conversation

Buying into conspiracy theories can be exciting – that’s what makes them dangerous

Conspiracy theories have been around for centuries, from witch trials and antisemitic campaigns to beliefs that Freemasons were trying to topple European monarchies. In the mid-20th century, historian Richard Hofstadter described a “paranoid style” that he observed in right-wing U.S. politics and culture: a blend of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and…

The National (Scotland)

Author Andrew O'Hagan on independence, creative process and male friendship

IN a study in London’s Primrose Hill, there’s a lot of what you would expect and a little of what you wouldn’t. Piles of books, a model…

The Guardian - UK

The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran; Fire Island by Jack Parlett – review

The author of gay cult classic Dancer from the Dance moves on from disco-fuelled revels to ‘death’s antechamber’ in his august portrait of a man for whom duty calls in Florida

Newsroom.co.nz

Book of the Week: Deceit, violence, and other New Zealand ways of life

Kirsty Gunn on the artistry of Vincent O'Sullivan

The Conversation

Geraldine Brooks's Horse is a richly detailed examination of the violence of America's past

In a letter accompanying the advance copy of her latest novel, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks reveals the inspiration for Horse.

The Conversation

Set in a 19th century Australian leper colony, Eleanor Limprecht's The Coast depicts past cruelties, but has powerful things to say about the present

Eleanor Limprecht’s new historical novel The Coast recreates a lost world that was once damned to obscurity. Set in a formerly remote coastal area known as Little Bay, just outside of Sydney, her book imagines a series of characters forced into quarantine after being diagnosed with leprosy.

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