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The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama's Worst Fiasco.
Ella-Laura ^ Juegos Sexuales ^ All Ready for the Big Night ^ The Contempt-Filled History of Twin Peaks
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'Sometimes you want to let yourself vamp for the cheap seats': Cally Fiedorek on prose style
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The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for historical writing: the best-written work on this year's shortlist
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Substack roundtable on the meaning of 'literary'
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The National Book Awards (US): the best-written work on the translated fiction shortlist
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The National Book Awards (US): the best-written work on the fiction shortlist
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Nonfiction of the year: the best-written book on the Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist
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Nonfiction of the year: the best-written book on the Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist
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The Booker Prize 2024: the best-written books on the shortlist
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Recent Releases

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Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey writes for Auraist on prose style: 'All writers walk around in a huff thinking their work deserves more…
Plus our final pick from the recent releases in nonfiction
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October's best-written recent releases in nonfiction II
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The best-written imaginative novel of the year
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'Having a bad sentence in front of her makes her “ill”—I feel pretty much the same': Laura van den Berg answers our new questions on prose…
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October's best-written recent releases in literary fiction II
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Book Extracts

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Nonfiction: September's best-written recent release
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'I have been a proud advocate of literary scuff': Travis Jeppesen on messing around with style
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From our subscribers' submissions: Eleanor Anstruther's A Memoir in 65 Postcards
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The best-written nonfiction recent releases; and Francis Spufford's Golden Hill
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