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Miriam Toews meditates on suicide, silence and the messiness of survival as she attempts to answer the question: ‘Why Do I Write’?

Andy Friend describes the first decade of the AIA, a vital movement that blended art and politics in the fight against international fascism

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In the archipelago-republic of 22nd-century Britain, a literary scholar becomes obsessed with a long-vanished sonnet sequence and the woman who inspired it

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