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Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert review – how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves

The Pulitzer-nominated journalist recounts how modern misogyny has been shaped by a mass culture attuned to male desire and all-pervasive pornography

The Guardian - UK

Educators wonder how to teach the writings of Alice Munro in wake of daughter's revelations

For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories

The Independent UK

Alice Munro followed the back roads of stories, mapping routes home to southwestern Ontario

Alice Munro, who has died at the age of 92, was a storyteller devoted to representing the rich complexity of human experience, often through her nuanced exploration of southwestern Ontario history and culture.

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Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti review – a radical fusion of linguistic experiment and philosophical inquiry

The Canadian author’s alphabetised restructuring of her journals is by turns illuminating, playful, poetic and frustrating

The Guardian - UK

Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti review – easy as ABC

A journal, scrambled then re-ordered by the first letter of each sentence, proves an oddly captivating experiment in writing

The Guardian - UK

How Should a Diary Be? Sheila Heti Scrambles Her Life in Alphabetical Diaries

Heti takes her autofiction to the next level by publishing her journals—with editing help from Excel

The Walrus

‘X is a mishmash of hell’: Twitter star Melissa Broder on grief, ‘the musking’ and her new novel Death Valley

She rose to fame posting forlornly as @SoSadToday. Can her latest novel – inspired by the death of her father, who returns inside a cactus – really be wackier than her merman love story The Pisces? And why does she now prefer Reddit to X?

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Friday essay: how women writers helped me find my voice after divorce

When my 25-year marriage broke down in 2017, I did what I always do in my life, especially in times of crisis. I turned to books. Specifically, to books by women.

The Conversation

The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

The Guardian - UK

‘Post-marriage, I was a teenager again’: how I turned the page after getting divorced in my 30s

When Joanna Biggs split up with her husband, she stepped off a conventional path into what seemed like chaos. Could books and art guide her to an alternative happy ending?

The Guardian - UK

Gregory Day's essays are immersed in the natural world, but think beyond the category of 'nature writing'

Gregory Day’s essay collection Words are Eagles is carefully subtitled: “Selected Writings on the Nature and Language of Place”.

The Conversation

A dying earth and a lament for lost fathers: Sheila Heti strips back the novel and makes it new

Sheila Heti’s slender, folkloric novel Pure Colour contains multitudes. It’s a love story, a lament. And it’s a philosophical enquiry into rupture: radical alteration caused by the death of a father, and a dying iteration of life on earth.

The Conversation

Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso review – a masterclass in unease

The American writer’s first novel applies her spare, elliptical style to a creepy coming-of-age tale set in Massachusetts

The Guardian - UK

The best new books to read in April as selected by avid readers and critics

Our critics’ top picks for the month include novels about a dystopian tech future, feuding visitors to a remote Irish island, and teenage boys falling in love in conflict-riven 90s Glasgow.

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The Independent UK

Review: Sheila Heti offers a story strained by the surreal

Sheila Heti explores the fate of the spirit in her meditative novel, “Pure Colour.”

The Guardian - UK

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti review – love, philosophy and foliage

This mystical, wildly original study of grief and love considers God, art and what it’s like to be a leaf

The Guardian - UK

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti review – a curious dance with death

The Canadian novelist’s tussle with life’s big binaries finally reaches to be or not to be, in a surreal, witty book that works an impressive spectrum of meaning and feeling

The Guardian - UK

Sheila Heti: ‘Books by women still get treated differently from those by men’

After her controversial novel about motherhood, the Canadian author has turned the spotlight on her father. She talks about grief, honesty – and her decision not to have children

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