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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine review – drag fabulousness in war-torn Beirut

Spanning eras of conflict and Covid in Lebanon, this irresistible queer coming-of-age tale explores what it means to be truly free

The Guardian - UK

The Maids at Donmar Warehouse: 'If you're prepared to surrender, it's a wild ride'

4/5 This adaptation of Jean Genet’s play by Kip Williams makes use of phones to project the fantasy world of two sisters wishing to murder a terrible mistress but the true power is in the performances

Evening Standard

The hell of staying in Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival

‘Hell is other people’: Writer Victoria Richards takes her first trip to the annual festival — and realises that the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre was right

The Independent UK

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Can philosophy help us manage anxiety? A new book suggests reading the great thinkers can calm our minds

Anxiety, a philosophical guide is a book of therapeutic philosophy. Author Samir Chopra’s aim is to take us through the history of philosophy, pointing out those thinkers along the way who have shaped its course.

The Conversation

‘The very thought of it repelled me’: how a skiing accident left me unable to read

After suffering a head injury, I found I was unable to read without headaches, eye strain and wild mood swings – and that my condition was far from rare

The Guardian - UK

Hell on earth – how a place of torture has haunted us culturally over time

From Bosch to Dante to Sartre, and from Hell’s Angels to Hell’s Kitchen to Hellraiser, visions of the infernal location and condition still resonate

The Guardian - UK

Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies review – dissolute years of a doomed generation

The experimental sex lives of the artists and thinkers of the roaring 20s are set against the burgeoning threat of fascism in this wickedly amusing and timely book

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A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

The Guardian - UK

Resistance fighter, novelist - and Sartre’s favourite agony aunt: rediscovering Alba Céspedes

Championed by Elena Ferrante, Céspedes’s neo-realist classic The Forbidden Notebook is being reissued 70 years after it was first published. It still speaks to women’s lives today

The Guardian - UK

Five facts about Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel-prize winning Japanese writer who died this month

Oe said interviewing Chairman Mao was “so boring”

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