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• Alice Vincent (p15) is a journalist and author. She hosts the Why Women Grow podcast. Her most recent book is Hark: How Women Listen. • Mark Rylance (p18) is an Oscarwinning screen and stage actor who was the first artistic director of...
Philip Adams visits New York to ask cult author Mike DeCapite about his “ambient novel”; Jemma Neville travels to Oslo to check out the Future Library; and David Barnett goes in search of a book that’s become a holy grail THE WRITER’S LIFE Stop...
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The top 20 books to see you through the holiday season FICTION My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy In this delightfully genre-blurring work of first-person fiction about three friends living in the French...
The Script of the Stones: A Short Walk at the End of the World Francis Gooding Atlantic, £18.99, pp368 William Blake’s poem Auguries of Innocence begins: “To see a world in a grain of sand”; Francis Gooding’s The Script of the Stones does...