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In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his…
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Many have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the latest iteration of her life, she has become, quite literally, a metalsmith too. Stones, gems, metals, fossils – she forges them into bodies, faces and, with her typical…
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A book that uses poetry to talk about difficulty, and vice versa.As Lavinia Greenlaw readily ‘The idea of poetry tends to make people feel stupid, anxious or bored.’ Poetry can appear to be inherently…
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It’s the heart of the Sixties in Britain – the Beatles and the Stones vie at the top of the charts, England win the World Cup, and optimism and patriotism percolate through the streets. But this is not the full story of those…
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She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the…
Recommended by John
‘Raunchy 21st century Virginia Woolf with an unforgettable narrator, finding the numinous in small quotidian rituals. My favourite debut novel for ages and ages.’
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live…
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America was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realised through violence. Philip Roth gave a name for this ‘blessed rage for purity’: the ‘indigenous American Berserk’.Granta 176 looks at what's left of…
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The Death of the Clinic: Radical Experiments in the Art of Medicine weaves together biography, memoir and cultural history in a groundbreaking exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history: a sex clinic housed in a…
Recommended by John
‘One of the most joyful novels I know. Impossibly buoyant and fragile: sunshine, spring, the Italian riviera.’