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Let the Games Begin reads like an intellectual’s beach-read: romantic, full of plot and characters, but also teeming with ideas, symbols, dense metaphors, and complex satire. Vol. 1 Brooklyn reviews Niccolò Ammaniti’s latest novel.
The bibliotherapists behind The Novel Cure—a medical handbook of literary remedies—offer cures for such common bookseller ailments as ‘going under, fear of’ and ‘misanthropy’.
Bookshelfies: photos of readers and their bookshelves.
I used to tear off and eat the bottom of book pages. Until I was basically 13. I would roll them into little joint-looking things and then eat them idly while I read. Weird reading habits.
Van Booy’s new novel, The Illusion of Separateness, reprises this brilliance, with crackerjack storytelling (readers will feel crazy-hungry to know what happens) in language so clean and clear it seems to vibrate.
Helen Trinca has unearthed new material that sheds light on the work of Kenneth Mackenzie, author of The Young Desire It, our special Text Classic release for September. You can read David Malouf’s introduction to this ‘nearly perfect’ novel here.
The 12 best fictional libraries.
Atlas Chugged, and other Ayn Rand books we might actually read.
‘Basically, if it’s by Shakespeare, everyone in the title dies.’ Nick Offerman recaps the classics.
‘There is nothing in this book that I didn’t love.’ Cory Doctorow on Robin Sloan’s Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
Can you pass an 8th-grade grammar quiz from 1912?
‘I’ll always be a writer, regardless of whatever else I’m doing to make a living. It’s a compulsion.’ Angela Savage, author of The Dying Beach, the latest in the Jayne Keeney PI series, Works with Words at the Wheeler Centre.
‘Read this. Read the story of Damien Echols and tell me you still support the death penalty. I dare you,’ says the Otago Daily Times, calling Damien Echols' Read more
