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Wednesday, 7 January 2026

Reading in the gaps: Why we return to books that broke us

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There are books we finish and put down, and for a while, we are unable to speak. These are books that pull the air from our lungs. That leav...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Why does every bestseller sound the same? A mini manifesto against beige prose

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Pick up any recent bestseller and you’ll notice it. The prose is clean. Efficient. Emotionally calibrated within an inch of its life. And, y...
Monday, 14 July 2025

Why the Classics still cast a spell: reading backwards in the age of the algorithm

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Browse through the bookish corners of Instagram or TikTok, and you’ll encounter a familiar pattern: glossy covers, rapid emotional claims, a...
Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Short stories, big hearts: ten collections worth reading

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Sometimes, when you’re reading, you want to dip in and out. To read a story from start to finish, savouring the words and the rhythm of the ...
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