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Yiyun Li and Barbara Demick among writers longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize

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‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means

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This month’s best paperbacks: Haruki Murakami, Richard Powers and more

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Shamiso by Brian Chikwava review – a globe-trotting coming-of-age story

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Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi review – love, war and betrayal

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The Two Roberts by Damian Barr review – lost story of a gay art duo

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A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb?

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The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith review – a terrific, tightly plotted romp

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Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald

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Vilhelm’s Room by Tove Ditlevsen review – a portrait of catastrophic mental illness

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Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy review – brave and absorbing

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Tom Gauld on reading to survive – cartoon

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The Big Idea: why we should embrace AI doctors

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‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot

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‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August

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Rebecca F Kuang: ‘A Tale of Two Cities is deeply silly camp – I love it!’

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Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle review – a philosopher’s guide to enlightenment

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Gunk by Saba Sams audiobook review – messy nights and motherhood

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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review – a story that sings on the page

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