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Books Are In The Air:” From Installations To Events, Paris Is Having A Literaissance
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“Books Are In The Air:” From Installations To Events, Paris Is Having A Literaissance 

April 18, 2024 | By Divya Bala 
Hay Festival
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Join Us At Hay Festival  

April 17, 2024 | By Jamie Styles
Lucy Ellis
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How To Host Your Own Book Club  

April 17, 2024
Why Salman Rushdie Is Still One Of Literature’s Most Important Figures  
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Why Salman Rushdie Is Still One Of Literature’s Most Important Figures  

April 17, 2024 | By Simon Coates
Billie Holiday - ‘I Love Rock ’N’ Roll’: Women And The Music Memoir
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‘I Love Rock ’N’ Roll’: Women And The Music Memoir

April 17, 2024 | By Tiffany Murray
Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner Book Cover, portrait of author Michelle Zauner
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Michelle Zauner On Writing Crying In H Mart

April 2, 2024
Portrait of Dua Lipa and author Michelle Zauner: Relates to author Q&A for Service95 Book Club
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Michelle Zauner Author Q&A

April 2, 2024
Service95 Book Club: Crying in H Mart Reading List
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Michelle Zauner’s Recommended Reading List

April 2, 2024
Crying In H Mart Playlist Book Club
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Playlist: Michelle Zauner’s Writing Soundtrack For Crying in H Mart

April 2, 2024
The Importance Of Food In South Korean Culture
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The Importance Of Food In South Korean Culture

April 2, 2024 | By Fiona Bae
An Exclusive Extract From Flash Fiction Book Persona Non Grata
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“A Duality Of Dark & Light”: An Exclusive Extract From Flash Fiction Book Persona Non Grata

March 21, 2024 | By Service95
Portrait of playwright and writer Suzie Miller
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My Culture Hits: Prima Facie Author Suzie Miller

March 20, 2024 | By Jamie Styles
The Book Butler, Cambridge Arms
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The Book Butler Shares The 5 Books Everyone Should Read

March 20, 2024 | By Poppy Roy and Pia Brynteson
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The Best Literary Festivals To Visit Around The World  

March 20, 2024 | By Jamie Styles
Illustration of a women sat on a bed
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Hernan Diaz On Conflicting Storylines And The Perception Of Truth In Trust

March 20, 2024
Portrait of poet Safia Elhillo
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How Poet Safia Elhillo Is Creating A Safe Space For Black Muslim Women Through Her Writing 

March 7, 2024 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Dua Lipa Q&A With Hernan Diaz, author of Trust, for Service95 Book Club
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Hernan Diaz Author Q&A

March 1, 2024
Hernan Diaz on Writing Trust - Service95 Book Club
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Hernan Diaz On Writing Trust

March 1, 2024
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Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust

March 1, 2024
Hernan Diaz Recommended Reading List
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Hernan Diaz’s Recommended Reading List

March 1, 2024
Scenes in New York following the Wall Street Crash
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Trust, The Roaring Twenties And The Wall Street Crash

March 1, 2024
Girl reading: Relates to feature about fiction trends in 2024
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The 5 Fiction Trends To Bookmark For Your 2024 Reading List 

February 29, 2024 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Portrait of Author Emmeline Clein
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Dead Weight: Emmeline Clein On Disrupting Eating Disorder Culture Through Her Writing

February 27, 2024 | By Madeline Howard
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My Pen Is The Wing Of A Bird Extract: New Fiction By Afghan Women 

February 21, 2024 | By Batool Haidari
Author Annabelle Hirsch For My Life In Culture
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⁠My Culture Hits: A History Of Women In 101 Objects Author Annabelle Hirsch

February 21, 2024 | By Jamie Styles
5 Romantic Reads That Will Change How You Think About Love
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5 Romantic Reads That Will Change How You Think About Love

February 8, 2024 | By Emma Firth
Dua Lipa and Khaled Hosseini Author Q&A
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Khaled Hosseini Author Q&A

February 1, 2024
Khaled Hosseini On Writing A Thousand Splendid Suns – Service95 Book Club
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Khaled Hosseini On Writing A Thousand Splendid Suns

February 1, 2024
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Khaled Hosseini’s Recommended Reading List

February 1, 2024
Dua Lipa holding Dua's Monthly Read book, A Thousand Splendid Suns for Service95 Book Club
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Announcing February’s Monthly Read: A Thousand Splendid Suns

February 1, 2024
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Playlist: Khaled Hosseini’s Writing Soundtrack For A Thousand Splendid Suns

February 1, 2024
Portrait of writer and editor of Strong Words magazine Ed Needham
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The Way I Work... Strong Words’ Ed Needham

January 31, 2024 | By Pia Brynteson
Film stills from Vanity Fair, Saltburn, The Talented Mr Ripley, Succession, The Great Gatsby
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Reckless, Dangerous, Undaunted: Pop Culture’s Enduring Fascination With The Outsider 

January 31, 2024 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Portrait of author Jennifer Clement
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The Books That Made Me – Jennifer Clement

January 31, 2024
Portrait of Author Kiley Reid
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Kiley Reid On Her Second Novel: “Being Curious Is More Important Than Writing What You Know”

January 30, 2024 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Dua Lipa and Emma Cline Author Q&A
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Emma Cline Author Q&A

January 4, 2024
Emma Cline Writing Process - Service95 Book Club
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Emma Cline On Writing The Guest

January 4, 2024
Emma Cline's The Guest Playlist - Service95 Book Club
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Playlist: Emma Cline’s The Guest Soundtrack

January 4, 2024
How The Hamptons Became Home To The Power Elite - Service95 Book Club
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How The Hamptons Became Home To The Power Elite

January 4, 2024
Emma Cline's Recommended Reading List
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Emma Cline’s Recommended Reading List

January 4, 2024
Dua Lipa holding The Guest book by Emma Cline
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Announcing January’s Monthly Read... The Guest

January 4, 2024
5 Transporting Books To Inspire Deeper Travels
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5 Transporting Books For Deeper Travel Inspiration

January 4, 2024 | By Kathleen Rellihan
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Resources To Help Make Sense Of The History Of Israel And Palestine, With Organisations To Support 

November 30, 2023 | By Service95
Star light in library bookcase
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Jólabókaflóð: The Icelandic Literary Tradition To Indulge In This Winter

November 23, 2023 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Dua Lipa and Brit Bennett
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Brit Bennett Author Q&A

November 9, 2023
Brit Bennett On Writing The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett On Writing The Vanishing Half

November 9, 2023
Service95 Book Club Brit Bennett's Recommended Reading List
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Brit Bennett’s Recommended Reading List

November 9, 2023
Service95 Book Club: Brit Bennett's Vanishing Half Playlist
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Playlist: Brit Bennett’s Writing Soundtrack

November 9, 2023
Dua Lipa holding Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
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Announcing November’s Monthly Read... The Vanishing Half 

November 9, 2023
Image of nude model crouching over monochrome flooring
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How We Can Embrace Disobedience To Love Our Bodies 

October 26, 2023 | By Emma Dabiri
Service95 Book Club Latin American Reading List
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Book Club: The Best Latin American Books To Read Now 

October 16, 2023
Portrait of Colombian writer and journalist Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez On One Hundred Years Of Solitude 

October 12, 2023
Portrait of Sofia Cheliak the Director Lviv Book Forum
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Lviv Book Forum Director Sofia Cheliak On The Power Of Literature In Wartime

October 5, 2023 | By Marianna Cerini 
Colourful streets of Cartagena, Colombia
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From Aracataca To Cartagena: Exploring Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombia 

October 3, 2023 | By Kathleen Rellihan
Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years Of Solitude Playlist
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Playlist: Gabriel García Márquez’s Writing Soundtrack

October 2, 2023
Men Harvesting Bananas On A Latin American Plantation c 1950
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Colombia’s Banana Massacre – The Real-Life Event That Inspired Gabriel García Márquez

October 2, 2023
Service95 Book Club Latin American Reading List
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Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias’ Latin American Reading List

October 2, 2023
Service95 Book Club: Mariana Torres Roots short story Latin American writer
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A Hay Festival Cartagena Short Story: Roots By Mariana Torres

October 2, 2023
Service95 Book Club: Juan Gabriel Vásquez On One Hundred Years Of Solitude
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez: “One Hundred Years Of Solitude Is Everything You Look For In A Novel”

October 2, 2023 | By Maria Padget
Patti Smith in New York
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Book Club: Inside Patti Smith’s World

September 28, 2023
Portrait of Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan
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The Way I Work... Booker Prize Chair Of Judges Esi Edugyan  

September 21, 2023 | By Funmi Fetto
Arlo Parks performing
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The Way I Work... Arlo Parks 

September 14, 2023
Imagery from the Breathing Space book by Iranian artists about oppression and freedom in Iran
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The Female Iranian Photographers Fighting To Be Seen 

September 14, 2023 | By Kamin Mohammadi
Patti Smith Dua Lipa Author Q&A
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Patti Smith Author Q&A

September 8, 2023
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Announcing September’s Monthly Read... Just Kids 

September 7, 2023
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe by Norman Seef
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“An Alchemical Connection” – How Patti Smith Met Robert Mapplethorpe 

September 7, 2023
Beat Magazine images
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Beat: The Independent Music Magazine With Megastar Influence

September 7, 2023 | By Lauren Cochrane
Portrait of author Isabel Allende
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The Way I Work... Isabel Allende 

September 7, 2023
A scene from Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel; Patti Smith on a balcony at the Chelsea Hotel, May 1971; Hotel Chelsea exterior; Chelsea Girls movie poster; Janis Joplin in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, March 1969; Hotel Chelsea facade; Patti Smith and Eric Anderson at the Chelsea Hotel, May 1971
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The Chelsea Hotel: A ‘Desperate Haven’ For New York’s Creatives

September 4, 2023
Patti Smith reading a letter to Robert Mapplethorpe
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Patti Smith Letter Reading

September 1, 2023
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Patti Smith Just Kids Reading

September 1, 2023
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Patti Smith’s Recommended Reading List

September 1, 2023
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe by Norman Seef
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“An Alchemical Connection” – How Patti Smith Met Robert Mapplethorpe 

August 31, 2023
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Playlist: Patti Smith’s Music Notes For Just Kids

August 29, 2023
World's Best Libraries: Stuttgart City Library, Alamy; Beitou Public Library, Alamy; Phoebe Lovatt’s Public Library; Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading; Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Shutterstock; The British Library, Shutterstock; The Morgan Library, Alamy; Woollahra Library, Alamy
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7 Incredible Libraries To Visit Worldwide   

August 15, 2023 | By Lauren Cochrane
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The List Goes On 

August 14, 2023
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Author Q&A

August 14, 2023
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Her Writing Process
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Writing Half Of A Yellow Sun

August 3, 2023
Half Of A Yellow Sun Service95 Book Club Augut Book of the Month
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Announcing August’s Monthly Read... Half Of A Yellow Sun 

August 3, 2023
Books that feature the Igbo Language
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“Why We Centre Igbo Culture And Language In Our Writing” 

August 3, 2023 | By Chika Unigwe
Author Elif Shafak
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The Way I Work... Elif Shafak

August 3, 2023
Women running into the sea
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The Growing Movement And Sisterhood Of Women Without Kids 

July 27, 2023 | By Marianna Cerini  
Women protesting about book bannings and censorship
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The Rise Of Literary Censorship: “To Ban A Book Is To Banish An Idea”

July 27, 2023 | By Simon Coates 
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Recommended Reading List
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Recommended Reading List

July 26, 2023
Min JIn Lee Author Q&A
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Min Jin Lee Author Q&A

July 21, 2023
Portrait of journalist and writer Yomi Adegoke
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“What Happens When Online Activism, Anonymity, Influencer Culture And Self-Commodification Collide?”

July 13, 2023 | By Yomi Adegoke
Dua Lipa Interviewing Douglas Stuart for Service95's Book Club
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Douglas Stuart Author Q&A

July 7, 2023
Min Jin Lee reading list - books artwork
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Min Jin Lee’s Recommended Reading List

July 6, 2023
Dua Lipa Service95 Book Club Book of the Month July pick Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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Announcing July’s Monthly Read: Pachinko 

July 6, 2023
Min Jin Lee Pachinko essay: images of Pachinko parlours in Japan throughout history
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Min Jin Lee: “Pachinko Became An Organising Metaphor For My Story” 

July 6, 2023
Portrait of Iranian-American poet Sharif Solmaz
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Iranian-American Poet Solmaz Sharif On The “Revolutionary Possibility Of Writing” 

June 29, 2023 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Illustrated portrait of author Douglas Stuart
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Listen Now – Dua Lipa: At Your Service Bonus Podcast Episode

June 22, 2023
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Douglas Stuart’s Recommended Reading List

June 14, 2023
Book recommendations from Dua Lipa visit to Downview Prison: Black and British, The Mercies, The Hate U Give, Desert Flower, Dance By The Canal
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Unlocking The Joy Of Reading 

June 8, 2023
Curtis Sittenfeld book Romantic Comedy
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“Isn’t Writing Supposed To Be Harder Than This?” – Curtis Sittenfeld On Having Fun With Her New Novel 

June 8, 2023 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
The Hay Festival 2023 line-up of speakers
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The Festival For Book Lovers 

June 1, 2023
Black and white image of writer Susan Sontag at a typewriter
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Exclusive Excerpt From Susan Sontag’s New Essay Collection, On Women  

June 1, 2023
Dua Lipa at the 2023 Met Gala wearing vintage Chanel Bridalwear
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Celebrating Fashion’s Greats

May 18, 2023
Image of book cover The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro
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“It’s The Most Eviscerating Thing I’ve Ever Written” – Stephen Buoro On His Acclaimed New Novel

May 18, 2023 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Service95 Book Club announcement graphic
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For The Love Of Books 

May 11, 2023
Archive image of young boy in Glasgow blowing bubblegum in the deserted street
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Douglas Stuart On The Powerful Images That Inspired Shuggie Bain 

May 11, 2023
World's Best Libraries: Stuttgart City Library, Alamy; Beitou Public Library, Alamy; Phoebe Lovatt’s Public Library; Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading; Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Shutterstock; The British Library, Shutterstock; The Morgan Library, Alamy; Woollahra Library, Alamy
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The Resurgence Of The Library   

May 11, 2023 | By Lauren Cochrane  
Gal-dem founder and author Liv Little
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Life After Gal-Dem: What Liv Little Did Next  

April 27, 2023 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Author Max Porter's new novel Shy
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“It Felt Like A Fever” – Author Max Porter On Creating His New Novel Shy 

April 20, 2023 | By Douglas Greenwood
Image of trans activist and author Munroe Bergdorf
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“We’re Being Told We Don’t Exist By The People That Are Meant To Be Protecting Us”: Munroe Bergdorf On Trans Issues

February 20, 2023 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Portrait of writer and poet Ocean Vuong standing under the branches of a tree
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In Conversation With Poet And Writer Ocean Vuong

January 13, 2023
Book cover of The Gospel Of Wellness by Rina Raphael
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This One Thing... The Gospel Of Wellness

December 22, 2022 | By Samantha de Haas
Image of Michelle Obama's book The Light We Carry
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This One Thing... The Light We Carry By Michelle Obama

November 11, 2022 | By Samantha de Haas
Images of bookstores in Malaysia
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How The Pandemic Made Malaysia A Nation Of Bookstore Lovers

November 11, 2022 | By Lily Jamaludin
Images of book covers featured in Dua Lipa's autumn book recommendations
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The Booker Prize And My Lifelong Love Of Reading

October 28, 2022
Images of book covers Virgil Abloh: Figures Of Speech; Art And Climate Change; Jimmy DeSana: Submission; 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone and Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love
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Five Art And Fashion Books To Have On Your Radar This Autumn

September 30, 2022 | By Nini Barbakadze
Portrait of chef and author Fatima Ali, and a picture of her book, Savor
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An Excerpt From The Late Fatima Ali’s Book Exploring A Chef’s Hunger For More

September 30, 2022
Illustrated portrait of Min Jin Lee
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Min Jin Lee’s 5 Places To Visit On A Day Off In Upper Manhattan

September 23, 2022
Portrait of author James Hannaham and the cover of his book Didn’t Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta
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James Hannaham: The Author Using Literature To Challenge The American Prison System

September 23, 2022 | By Diana Durán
Illustrated portrait of Monica Lewinsky
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Monica Lewinsky’s Best Books On How The Mind Works

September 20, 2022
Image of the book cover of All The Women In My Brain by Betty Gilpin
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Betty Gilpin Is Finding Herself, One Chapter At A Time

September 9, 2022 | By Esther Zuckerman
Photographs and an illustration from the HÄN archive
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The Archive Chronicling The Lived Reality Of London’s Queer Community

August 26, 2022 | By Nini Barbakadze
Portrait of British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful and his book cover
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This One Thing... Edward Enninful: A Visible Man

August 26, 2022 | By Funmi Fetto
Images by photographer Nigel Shafran, taken from his retrospective book The Well
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This One Thing... The Well by Nigel Shafran

August 5, 2022 | By Poppy Roy
Image of author Lillian Fishman alongside her book cover Acts Of Service
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Author Lillian Fishman Shares An Excerpt From Her Debut Novel Exploring Sexual Desire

August 1, 2022
Image of children's book I Love My Body Because by Shelly Anand and Nomi Ellenson
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“All Bodies Are Worthy... No Matter Their Size, Colour Or Ability”: The Author Finding Self-Acceptance By Writing Children’s Books

June 23, 2022 | By Shelly Anand
The book cover of Surfacing: On Being Black And Feminist In South Africa
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This One Thing... Surfacing: On Being Black And Feminist In South Africa

June 17, 2022 | By Funmi Fetto
An image of a woman's face obscured by yellow squares in a collage illustration
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Learning to Love Being ‘Selfish’ 

June 6, 2022
Portrait of Akwaeke Emezi and their book cover
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“My Novels Are Definitely Not Happy. So I Wanted To Write Something Happy For Once”: Akwaeke Emezi Is Deviating Into Romance

May 27, 2022 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
Hay Literary Festival, Wales
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An Insider’s Guide To Hay-On-Wye

May 6, 2022 | By Maria Padget
Portrait of graphic journalist Takoua Ben Mohamed in her studio
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Takoua Ben Mohamed: Breaking Down Stereotypes One Graphic Novel At A Time

May 5, 2022 | By Marianna Cerini 
Book cover of The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
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Nadia Murad: An Advocate For Sexual Violence Survivors Everywhere

April 7, 2022 | By Maria Padget
mages from the Japanese Subculture book The Obsessed
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This One Thing... The Obsessed: Otaku, Tribes, And Subcultures Of Japan by Irwin Wong 

March 31, 2022
Illustration of author Hanya Yanagihara
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Hanya Yanagihara’s Top 5 Global Destinations

March 14, 2022
Black model smiling wearing orange tulle dress
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The Necessity Of Black Joy

March 14, 2022 | By Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Watercolour illustrated portrait of American author Lisa Taddeo
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Lisa Taddeo’s Top 5 Books Of All Time 

February 14, 2022
Dua Lipa reads book at dinner table, where she is eating a taco
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In Praise Of Being Alone

January 27, 2022

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