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Newly released letters reveal JD Salinger’s wariness over ‘second-rate reviewers’

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Author asked to remove reference to his ‘Jewish-Irishness’ from book jacket of The Catcher in the Rye…
Newly released letters reveal JD Salinger’s wariness over ‘second-rate reviewers’
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‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race

silverguide.site – She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar explains why she’ll never stop speaking truth to power…
‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race
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Peter Stead obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Swansea University historian whose attention focused on popular culture and its practitioners…
Peter Stead obituary
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Haruki Murakami to publish first novel to feature woman as sole protagonist

silverguide.site – The Tale of Kaho, out in July, will be 16th novel by Japanese author who has faced criticism for portrayal of women…
Haruki Murakami to publish first novel to feature woman as sole protagonist
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Katherine El-Salahi

silverguide.site – Other lives: Activist and publisher specialising in literary and academic works of the global south…
Katherine El-Salahi
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Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

silverguide.site – An imposter monkey, an underworld princess, art’s female trailblazers, and YA tales of fear, family and friendship…
Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
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Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’

silverguide.site – The author on feeling Thomas Hardy’s pain, being duped by Donna Tartt and how reading his sister’s copy of Trainspotting made him want to write…
Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’
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The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke review – a compelling debut of mental meltdown

silverguide.site – A young woman’s dissociation from reality and her road to recovery are vividly rendered in this striking novel…
The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke review – a compelling debut of mental meltdown
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David Malouf will always be one of the world’s great writers. I will always be grateful to him | Christos Tsiolkas

silverguide.site – Malouf’s astounding talent was to remain lucid and attentive in his language, while imbuing his worlds with a sensuality that was subtle but deeply felt …
David Malouf will always be one of the world’s great writers. I will always be grateful to him | Christos Tsiolkas
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Mantle by Romy Ash review – an exquisitely wild and exhilarating vision of the near future

silverguide.site – Thirteen years after her celebrated debut, the author returns with a bizarre, evocative work that merges science and the surreal…
Mantle by Romy Ash review – an exquisitely wild and exhilarating vision of the near future
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‘Extraordinary and original poet’ JH Prynne dies aged 89

silverguide.site – The maverick writer and scholar was a pioneer in 60s avant garde circles, and emerged as a cult figure despite an aversion to publicity, and poetry that was hard to parse…
‘Extraordinary and original poet’ JH Prynne dies aged 89
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A Family Matter by Claire Lynch audiobook review – an award-winning story of homophobia and divorce

silverguide.site – Dual timelines reveal the real reason a mother was forced to leave her daughter in the 80s, in this Nero prize-winning novel inspired by real-life events…
A Family Matter by Claire Lynch audiobook review – an award-winning story of homophobia and divorce
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David Malouf, Australian writer whose work spanned the ancient world and ‘70s Brisbane

silverguide.site – Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the Booker prize but none of his novels were made into films because, he said, ‘almost nothing happens’…
David Malouf, Australian writer whose work spanned the ancient world and ‘70s Brisbane
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David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92

silverguide.site – Acclaimed Brisbane-born writer was known for his work exploring his own childhood, great myths and colonial Australia…
David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92
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The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all

silverguide.site – A fascinating, infuriating, immaculately researched account of how wealth management giants snap up the services upon which rely to extract eye-watering profits…
The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
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Susan Choi and Lily King shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction

silverguide.site – The US writers join four debut authors in demonstrating ‘the complexity and beauty of the female experience’, said chair of judges Julia Gillard…
Susan Choi and Lily King shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction
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The Wonderful World that Almost Was by Andrew Durbin review – naked ambition

silverguide.site – A vibrant account of the stratospheric rise and inner lives Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, the forgotten artist duo that shaped New York cool…
The Wonderful World that Almost Was by Andrew Durbin review – naked ambition
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The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis review – one of the boldest writers at work in English today

silverguide.site – This fable-like novella about technologies of illusion and a life-changing friendship in Mexico City is enchanting…
The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis review – one of the boldest writers at work in English today
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See You on the Other Side by Jay McInerney review – the clumsy finale of a classic New York series

silverguide.site – The bright young things of 1992’s Brightness Falls are now in their 60s in this verbose, clunky novel that seems more interested in lifestyle than inner lives…
See You on the Other Side by Jay McInerney review – the clumsy finale of a classic New York series
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Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt review – life after Paul Auster

silverguide.site – What’s it like to lose your partner of more than 40 years? The novelist and essayist reflects on going from ‘we’ to ‘I’…
Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt review – life after Paul Auster
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