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Knausgaard s ambitious new novel imagines Europe s last decades – ending with an ominous star and the return of the dead

The Wolves of Eternity is remarkable – and deliberately challenging. Ranging across time and space, it muses on thinking trees, Putin’s Moscow, a Norwegian heatwave and the undead.

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Guide to the classics: the sophisticated aesthetics of Sei Shōnagon s The Pillow Book

A classic of the Heian period of Japanese literature, the sensual delight of The Pillow Book encourages writers to ‘follow their brush’.

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Nuclear bombs, artificial intelligence and the madness of reason – in The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut examines the troubling dawn of the digital age

In The Manic, Benjamin Labatut tells the story of the ‘smartest man of the 20th century’.

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Utopia gone wrong: identity and history intersect in Jenny Erpenbeck s haunting new novel

In Kairos, a relationship between a young woman and an older married man captures the difficulties and ambivalences of German reunification.

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International Translation Day 2023: 5 short reads that capture diverse human experiences

In 2017, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to observe September 30 as International Translation Day because it happens to be the feast day of the translator of the Bible, St. Jerome, who died in 420 AD.

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