great books
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‘The Dispossessed’: Ursula K Le Guin’s SciFi novel’s political power endures even 50 years later
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Nobel laureate JM Coetzee’s provocative first book turns 50 in 2024. And his most controversial, 25
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Walter Benjamin’s ‘Illuminations’ is a remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker
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In Sanskrit plays, paradise is always lost, but the attempt to regain it never ends
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‘Animal Farm’ has been translated into Shona: Why a group of Zimbabwean writers undertook the task
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Why Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’, now 50 years old, is the ‘Iliad’ of our times
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Explainer: Why Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’ is one of the greatest scholarly books ever written
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‘Everyone who read her was shocked into awareness’: Mini Krishnan, Bama’s first publisher in English
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What makes Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy so meme-worthy?
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How De Quincy’s ‘Confessions’ elevated the (opium) addict to a cultural figure for the first time
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The irony of far-right Spaniards appropriating Don Quixote as a nationalist crusader
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Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ and the problem of terrifying moral complacency
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‘Lord of The Rings’: A guide to the expanded world of Middle-earth in JRR Tolkein’s other books
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‘The Stepford Wives’: Why Ira Levin’s feminist horror novel is still relevant 50 years later
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‘Persuasion’: Why Jane Austen’s most understated novel, soon to be on Netflix, is worth (re)reading
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Why James Herriot’s ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ is still cherished after 50 years
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The ‘Dracula Daily’ newsletter brings weekly comical twists to the 1897 vampire novel
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Gabriel García Márquez: ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and the Margao Book Club
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Ulysses at 100: why James Joyce was so obsessed with the perfect blue cover
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Why Teju Cole’s ‘Open City’, published ten years ago, is a liberal arts and humanities novel
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Why it’s better to start reading James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ from chapter four than from chapter one
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Sherlock Holmes and the case of toxic masculinity: What lies behind the detective’s appeal?
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Sixty years of the ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ trial: A court case that defined free expression
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David Foster Wallace’s classic 1990s novel ‘Infinite Jest’ predicted the Year of Zoom
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Poets and novelists have been writing about life under Covid-19 for more than a century
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This cult classic about a volcanic love affair between two poets turns 75 this year
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‘Sense and Sensibility’ in a time of coronavirus: How to make a vicarious escape with Jane Austen
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What I learnt while teaching Pakistani literature to a class of old, White Americans
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What Rabindranath Tagore’s 1912 play ‘The Post Office’ can teach us about living in quarantine
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) immortalised the Civil War, Spain’s favourite modern Gothic tale
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A new book says the KGB may have killed Albert Camus. His novel ‘The Stranger’ lives on
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‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years on: Daniel Defoe’s unreliable narrative set up enduring colonial myths
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How far to Auschwitz? Why we need to read Lidia Ostalowska’s ‘Watercolours’ to look for an answer
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Jnanpith winner Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Shadow Lines’ showed how to take the vernacular into English
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Why we should never give up our quest to find (or write) the Great Indian Novel
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‘English, August’ is getting a special 30-year edition. But does it still hold up in 2018?
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Dear Mr Bond, here’s what your ‘Confessions of a Book Lover’ told me about writing (and you)
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June 16: How do you celebrate Bloomsday, and James Joyce the European, in the age of Brexit?
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‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ is 50. Its magic realism is immortal
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The five must-read books of Bengali literature