World Literature
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‘Dream of the Red Chamber’: Why you should read a 2,500-page-long, 18th century Chinese novel
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Photos and translations: The unique semi-pictographic dongba script of China’s Naxi people
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New African literature is disrupting the standard lists of Western publishers (making readers happy)
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Photos: Chinese and Islamic influences come together in the Qurans printed in China
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Here's proof that Bob Dylan reads poetry: Five extraordinary poems that inspired him
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Philip Roth: The American writer who shouldn’t need the Nobel to be read the world over
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Even without the Nobel, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's writing of resistance is memorable
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Akhil Sharma wins Dublin International literary prize worth €100,000
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After the rediscovery of a 19th-century novel, our view of black female writers is transformed
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What to expect from Shehan ‘Chinaman’ Karunatilaka’s new novel (hint: think ghosts)
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When Shakespeare went to East Africa and found favour with the Indian diaspora
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What to do when raped every night by groups of invading soldiers
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Is German fiction returning to the social novel?
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Why every woman – and most men – must read Elena Ferrante’s quartet of novels
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Fifteen ways to tell if you’re living in a Haruki Murakami novel