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One writer. Two names. Several lives. Christopher St John Sprigg wrote crime novels. Christopher Caudwell wrote Marxist criticism and died fighting in Spain. https://t.co/7nB3a2HSle

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One writer. Two names. Several lives. Christopher St John Sprigg wrote crime novels. Christopher Caudwell wrote Marxist criticism and died fighting in Spain. https://t.co/7nB3a2HSle

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd proves that a great twist is not added at the end. It is built into the foundations from the first page. https://t.co/5Ddl6an5N8

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From Jane Eyre to Moshfegh, difficult women in fiction keep asking the same question: unlikeable to whom?https://t.co/dBytUgMnFf

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From The Secret History to Real Life, campus fiction keeps returning to one question: who becomes possible in a place built on ideas?https://t.co/FHlH4v94Xa

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Reading has always been social. The literary internet simply made the conversation louder, faster and harder to ignore. https://t.co/gIOijrnAdx

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Reading has always been social. The literary internet simply made the conversation louder, faster and harder to ignore. https://t.co/gIOijrnAdx

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Are novels really getting shorter and simpler, or is fiction adapting to a culture where attention has become harder to defend? https://t.co/A08nM2hKO5

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Are novels really getting shorter and simpler, or is fiction adapting to a culture where attention has become harder to defend? https://t.co/A08nM2hKO5

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Some novels comfort. Others ask to be endured. This post considers *A Little Life*, the debate around its relentless sadness, and five challenging books to read next.
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Why readers keep turning the page for characters who frustrate, manipulate, avoid and disappoint us. Perhaps likeability was never the point. https://t.co/7blY4Rairr

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Why readers keep turning the page for characters who frustrate, manipulate, avoid and disappoint us. Perhaps likeability was never the point. https://t.co/7blY4Rairr

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After the recent wave of love for White Nights and Notes from Underground, Tangled Prose asks a bigger question: what happens when readers go deeper into the great Russian novels? From Lermontov to Tolstoy, five essential books worth the plunge. https://t.co/RezHq9hzSW

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Who shapes literary taste now? A new post from Tangled Prose explores the return of the reader as tastemaker, and how reader enthusiasm can change a book’s whole public life. https://t.co/MitS52VNBx

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Who shapes literary taste now? A new post from Tangled Prose explores the return of the reader as tastemaker, and how reader enthusiasm can change a book’s whole public life. https://t.co/MitS52VNBx

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Some Joan Didion quotes get repeated so often they start to float free of the work. But her best lines still carry an entire way of seeing inside them.
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Are readers craving seriousness again? Not solemnity, just fiction with depth, patience, and the sense that something is truly at stake. I’ve been thinking about that through Claire Keegan, Paul Lynch, and Marilynne Robinson. https://t.co/jQGqyKN4Ks

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Are readers craving seriousness again? Not solemnity, just fiction with depth, patience, and the sense that something is truly at stake. I’ve been thinking about that through Claire Keegan, Paul Lynch, and Marilynne Robinson. https://t.co/jQGqyKN4Ks

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Some writers can be recognised within a paragraph. Occasionally, within a line.
From Didion, to Keegan, Woolf, and Baldwin. https://t.co/uSE0ULAjiv

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Some writers can be recognised within a paragraph. Occasionally, within a line.
From Didion, to Keegan, Woolf, and Baldwin. https://t.co/uSE0ULAjiv