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Booker Prize 2026: Six Novels Make Shortlist

If James wins for “The Disappearers” or Stuart for “John of John,” it would be a rare second win for an author in the history of the prestigious literary award.

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We fear AI as Frankenstein's monster – and forget that Mary Shelley's warning was about the scientist, not the creature

We fear AI as Frankenstein's monster – and forget that Mary Shelley's warning was about the scientist, not the creature

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In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: “I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.” Then he set to arranging his death

In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: “I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.” Then he set to arranging his death

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Glenn Gould was fabulously neurotic, opinionated, and flamboyant. Seventy years on, his Bach still sets the standard

For Chekhov, doomsaying was an ingeniously disguised form of sloth — and modern disenchantment an epidemic worth curing

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