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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

silverguide.site – Sublimation by Isabel J Kim; Last Day of a Prior Life by Andrés Barba; Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay; The Carrier by Ruth Newton; Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd…
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
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Transcendent by Laverne Cox review – success against the odds

silverguide.site – The actor and activist tells the story of her brutal childhood in the deep south with eloquence and defiance…
Transcendent by Laverne Cox review – success against the odds
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A Short History of Longans by Mirandi Riwoe review – a moving family portrait devoured in one sitting

silverguide.site – Riwoe’s commanding new book traces a Chinese Australian family across four generations – all connected by one old longan tree…
A Short History of Longans by Mirandi Riwoe review – a moving family portrait devoured in one sitting
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The Odyssey by Homer audiobook review – a truly fantastic journey

silverguide.site – Anton Lesser brings poise and depth to this classic adaptation, conjuring monsters, heroes and Gods…
The Odyssey by Homer audiobook review – a truly fantastic journey
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Beat legend, ‘boy lover’: how should we reckon with Allen Ginsberg’s complex legacy?

silverguide.site – As a series of star-studded events celebrates Ginsberg’s centennial, the keeper of his estate weighs the genius poetry – and provocative views – of the iconic writer…
Beat legend, ‘boy lover’: how should we reckon with Allen Ginsberg’s complex legacy?
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Trouble Was by Charlotte Edwardes review – a sharp child’s-eye view of adult neglect

silverguide.site – A young boy and his two siblings stay with their aunt in the West Country, in this haunting debut set over the long, hot summer of 1976…
Trouble Was by Charlotte Edwardes review – a sharp child’s-eye view of adult neglect
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Service by Lauren Mooney review – a very modern ghost story

silverguide.site – The chills are genuinely spooky in this haunted-house tale about contemporary precarity – a debut that speaks to our times…
Service by Lauren Mooney review – a very modern ghost story
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The Kiss by Katie Barclay review – a history of passion, power and puckering up

silverguide.site – From heads of state to foot-kissing knights, Hollywood romcoms to sex, a fascinating story of the gesture that for centuries has brought people together…
The Kiss by Katie Barclay review – a history of passion, power and puckering up
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Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian author of Women Without Men, dies at 80

silverguide.site – The revered writer and political exile’s publisher says her ‘legacy in literary history can’t be compared to anyone else’s’…
Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian author of Women Without Men, dies at 80
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Patrice Lawrence chosen as new children’s laureate

silverguide.site – Writer of YA novels Orangeboy and Needle takes over from Frank Cottrell-Boyce and plans to highlight how reading can foster connection in fragmented times…
Patrice Lawrence chosen as new children’s laureate
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‘Hakeem Jeffries’ office is sweating’: Ex-GOP speaker’s aide predicts leftwing pressure for Democrats

silverguide.site – John Leganski, a longtime aide to Kevin McCarthy, recounts how far-right Republicans brought down speaker…
‘Hakeem Jeffries’ office is sweating’: Ex-GOP speaker’s aide predicts leftwing pressure for Democrats
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We Are Not Machines by Sarah O’Connor review – can dignity at work survive the tech revolution?

silverguide.site – A Financial Times journalist ponders the future of labour in world increasingly dominated by AI and automation…
We Are Not Machines by Sarah O’Connor review – can dignity at work survive the tech revolution?
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Country People by Daniel Mason review – a joyful follow-up to North Woods

silverguide.site – This fantastical journey through family, folktales and a world beneath our feet is witty, uplifting and gorgeously written…
Country People by Daniel Mason review – a joyful follow-up to North Woods
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‘It’s more than just fairy smut’: Inside the UK’s first romantasy bookshop

silverguide.site – Between enemies-to-lovers and ‘shadow daddies’, BookTok has fallen in love with the spicy stories combining romance and fantasy. But there is more to the subgenre than sex, say the fans who queued for hours outside the brick-and-mortar Oxford store…
‘It’s more than just fairy smut’: Inside the UK’s first romantasy bookshop
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Contrapposto by Dave Eggers review – this portrait of an artist falls flat

silverguide.site – The story of a lifelong friendship between two art-world mavericks from the working-class midwest is disappointingly pious…
Contrapposto by Dave Eggers review – this portrait of an artist falls flat
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The Land and Its People by David Sedaris review – crankiness and charm

silverguide.site – Sedaris plays up the curmudgeonliness in a collection that still entertains…
The Land and Its People by David Sedaris review – crankiness and charm
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Feeling stuck? Try ‘productivity snacking’

silverguide.site – Whether you’re learning guitar or trying to get fit, short bursts of effort can work wonders…
Feeling stuck? Try ‘productivity snacking’
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Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’

silverguide.site – One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness…
Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’
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Could the next great novel be written by AI (and would you even be able to tell)?

silverguide.site – As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT…
Could the next great novel be written by AI (and would you even be able to tell)?
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Best Australian books out in July: Rupert Murdoch, unhinged short stories and a psychosexual thriller

silverguide.site – Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on…
Best Australian books out in July: Rupert Murdoch, unhinged short stories and a psychosexual thriller
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