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Nick Hornby: The Older You Get, the Less Time You Have for Bad Books

Nick Hornby: The Older You Get, the Less Time You Have for Bad Books

“Reading a bad novel when you are approaching pensionable age is like taking the time left available to you and setting it on fire.”

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Here are the winners of the 2024 National Translation Awards.

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Nazem Kadri on Becoming a Brown Muslim Hockey Star in a Very White Sport

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Thousands of Authors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions

“We cannot in good conscience engage with Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to apartheid and displacement.”

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