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Arts
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2 weeks ago

Julian Barnes' playful new book is also his 'official departure'

An aging writer confronts mortality, memory, and repetition while considering retirement and revisiting past relationships through fiction blending autobiography and invention.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Lily Allen's new album shows the pain behind the cool girl' myth that's why women are obsessed with it | Gaby Hinsliff

Lily Allen's new album portrays an open marriage gone sour, blurring autobiographical truth with fiction while confronting separation, motherhood, and public scrutiny.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

A hunger for wild, physical sensation': Alan Hollinghurst on painter and writer Denton Welch who died tragically young

All his characteristics as a writer are evident from the start: an astonishing candour of response to sensations of all kinds, with childlike repulsion registered as keenly as attraction; a clarity of style unbothered by literary convention; and a fierce solipsism, his sense of others exact and often unsparing, but his overwhelming purpose the record of his own needs, excitements and perceptions: not just things seen but the acutely subjective feelings they stir up in him.
Books
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Vilhelm's Room by Tove Ditlevsen review a portrait of catastrophic mental illness

Vilhelm's Room follows Lise Mundus, a 51-year-old acclaimed writer abandoned by her husband, consumed by memories and resolved to end her life.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden review darkly funny Swedish autofiction

Andrev's childhood is a series of tumultuous experiences with seven fathers, marked by disappointment and violence.
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