A Prayer For the Crown-Shy review: 'Hopepunk' novel imagines a positive future for humanity
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A Prayer For the Crown-Shy review: 'Hopepunk' novel imagines a positive future for humanity

What Strange Paradise review: A nine-year-old refugee's 'upturned fairytale'
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What Strange Paradise review: A nine-year-old refugee's 'upturned fairytale'

Acting Class by Nick Drnaso review: Misfit drama students and one increasingly erratic teacher
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Acting Class by Nick Drnaso review: Misfit drama students and one increasingly erratic teacher

Don't Worry Darling: A dystopian take on the American Dream
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Don't Worry Darling: A dystopian take on the American Dream

Solito by Javier Zamora review: A beguiling memoir, effortlessly evocative of time and place
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Solito by Javier Zamora review: A beguiling memoir, effortlessly evocative of time and place

Crimes of the future: Surgery is the new sex in Cronenberg's latest ick-flick
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Crimes of the future: Surgery is the new sex in Cronenberg's latest ick-flick

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life review: Exploring loneliness when we're more connected than ever
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An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life review: Exploring loneliness when we're more connected than ever

Arcade Fire tour: ‘Just some humans doing our best'
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Arcade Fire tour: ‘Just some humans doing our best'

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History is one of the most original queer history books of recent years
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History is one of the most original queer history books of recent years

Venomous Lumpsucker review: The most original – and horrifying – novel of the year
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Venomous Lumpsucker review: The most original – and horrifying – novel of the year

Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz review: Two damaged souls healed by a beautiful bond
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Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz review: Two damaged souls healed by a beautiful bond

Sean Bean and Nicola Walker's Marriage makes me feel like part of a Hollywood power couple
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Sean Bean and Nicola Walker's Marriage makes me feel like part of a Hollywood power couple

Re-Sisters by Cosey Fanni Tutti review: The women undermined and ostracised in their time
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Re-Sisters by Cosey Fanni Tutti review: The women undermined and ostracised in their time

Muse: Will of the People review – 'Mad, bad, dangerous, and unreasonably good fun'
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Muse: Will of the People review – 'Mad, bad, dangerous, and unreasonably good fun'

Otessa Moshfegh's Lapvona review: Comic, compelling and pulsing with perversity
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Otessa Moshfegh's Lapvona review: Comic, compelling and pulsing with perversity

Michael Flatley on writing, directing and starring in his spy thriller Blackbird
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Michael Flatley on writing, directing and starring in his spy thriller Blackbird

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Sayaka Murata's Life Ceremony: A fairly mixed bag of strange and grotesque tales

The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe: A clarion call for disenfranchised people
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The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe: A clarion call for disenfranchised people

You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty review: An easy read which fails to strike home
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You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty review: An easy read which fails to strike home

Book reviews: Three Assassins and Devil House
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Book reviews: Three Assassins and Devil House

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