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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – August 13

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Modern utopias; the emotional impact of reading; Döblin’s outlandish visions; deviating novelists; imaginary books – and much more.

This week's TLS is out now: https://t.co/rapwSkqjyr pic.twitter.com/anglFU3S4B
— The TLS (@TheTLS) August 12, 2021

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – August 13

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This week's @TheTLS, featuring Olivia Laing on utopias; @NicolaShulman on private schools; @MirandaFrance1 on Liane de Pougy; @soniafaleiro on Modi's India – and more pic.twitter.com/Rx9cb31lxi
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) August 11, 2021

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Front Cover Preview: The New Yorker – Aug 16, 2021

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This week’s cover, “Hi, It’s Mom,” by Roz Chast. #NewYorkerCovers https://t.co/Pd5SvDD6Lb pic.twitter.com/vXQe7MiyP1
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 9, 2021

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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – August 6

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This week's @TheTLS, featuring Patricia J. Williams on Charles Murray's social Darwinism; Paul Genders on pop music and literature; @OldFortunatus on the RSC outdoors; @annielmcd on Sara Mesa – and more pic.twitter.com/VrQne0mo3T
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) August 4, 2021

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Literature: The London Review Of Books – Aug 12

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Our four-week summer issue is now online, featuring @TriciaLockwood on Marian Engel’s ‘Bear’, David Runciman on Michael Wolff’s ‘Landslide’, Colm Tóibín on Pessoa, a new essay by Lydia Davis, Andrew O’Hagan on Fergie’s Mills & Boon and a cover by @Jon_McN: https://t.co/xaTOjYd3Vr pic.twitter.com/85zYXXbrnn
— London Review of Books (@LRB) August 4, 2021

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Front Cover Views: The New Yorker – Aug 9, 2021

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Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: https://t.co/F2xXvpU905 pic.twitter.com/UTH9ZKgAxO
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 2, 2021

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Literature: New Editions Of British Author William Golding Out In October

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We are hugely excited to be launching new editions of William Golding’s classic novels, with new forewords by authors including Ben Okri, Marlon James and Benjamin Myers.

The first three titles are out in October, read more about all the editions here: https://t.co/VOQxGDEMgX pic.twitter.com/qBPBMOhZKc
— Faber Books (@FaberBooks) July 29, 2021

Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE FRSL was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies, he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime.

Faber celebrates William Golding’s work with the launch of new editions

Katie Hall | 29 July 2021

Faber is embarking on a major relaunch of William Golding’s novels to celebrate these radical modern classics by a visionary Nobel laureate and Booker winner.

The first three titles – The Inheritors, Pincher Martin and The Spire – will be released in October 2021 to coincide with the Nobel Prize, with new forewords by Ben Okri, Marlon James and Benjamin Myers respectively. Other confirmed introducers include Kate Mosse, Annie Proulx, Nicola Barker, Bettany Hughes, Helen Castor and Stephen King.

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement (TLS) – July 30

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Barbarossa reconsidered; challenging meritocracy; William Blake’s resonance; local news in decline; menace in rural France – and much more.

This week’s issue is out now: https://t.co/rapwSkqjyr pic.twitter.com/859Z2rNtXM
— The TLS (@TheTLS) July 29, 2021

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – July 30, 2021

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This week's @TheTLS, featuring @bartov_omer on Barbarossa; Ferdinand Mount on meritocracy; @Prof_Nick_Groom on William Blake; Marina Warner on Sicily; @LamornaAsh on pasta – and more pic.twitter.com/XklU2xxbe8
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) July 28, 2021

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Literature: 2021 Booker Prize Longlist Announced

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We are delighted to announce the #2021BookerPrize longlist! Watch chair of judges Maya Jasanoff introduce the 13 books selected with her fellow judges @horatiaharrod, @nataschaandsons, Chigozie Obioma and Rowan Williams, and read more here: https://t.co/RycZCKh2YZ #FinestFiction pic.twitter.com/C3HkXgc5i2
— The Booker Prizes (@TheBookerPrizes) July 26, 2021

The 2021 longlist, or ‘The Booker Dozen’, of 13 novels, is:

A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta Books, Granta Publications)
Second Place, Rachel Cusk, (Faber)
The Promise, Damon Galgut, (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris (Tinder Press, Headline, Hachette Book Group)
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
An Island, Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)
A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed (Viking, Penguin General, PRH)
Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH)
China Room, Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker, Vintage, PRH)
Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH)
Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford (Faber)