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‘According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 12,361 missing person’s reports were filed in Uttar Pradesh in 2014. A significant number of these disappearances were honour killings.’ @skyita reads ‘The Good Girls’ by Sonia Faleiro: https://t.co/QuQNd5cEls

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‘Some of the most popular books on TikTok are re-engineered Wattpad stories: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, currently number one on Amazon’s erotic fiction list, started life as Star Wars fan fic.’ Malin Hay on BookTok: https://t.co/cjJISFKpKz

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Uganda’s citizenship laws, Mamdani writes, were key: ‘Ian Sanjay Patel argues in We’re Here because You Were There that the 1968 Commonwealth Immigrant Act “was the first immigration law specifically designed to target non-white British citizens not resident or born in Britain”.’

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The slippery question at the heart of the novel is what happens to an independent nation when colonisers are replaced by multinational corporations, who exploit the country with the help of the local elite? Kevin Okoth reads ‘Glory’ by NoViolet Bulawayo: https://t.co/YW2GnUfi5r

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The Twilight Zone exposes the doubleness of Chilean society in a period when life could be either peaceful or extremely dangerous, depending on who you were. Sometimes the two worlds come close to meeting. @chris_power reads Nona Fernández: https://t.co/RMlKUHVATd

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‘The cultural struggle over the legacy of slavery and the Civil War rages on, but it does so increasingly without the involvement of the handsome, treasonous and defeated Robert E. Lee.’ @karpmj reviews Allen Guelzo’s biography of Lee: https://t.co/0a6EMsCcnp

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RT @chrisbrooke: Finally caught up with a copy of Sally Rooney's new book, Beautiful World, Where Are You and was delighted to see that *ev…

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‘How,​ Henkin asks, did people know what day of the week it was? The question is deceptively simple, and probably for that reason, as he points out, has rarely been raised. But it matters.’ @scaliger on ‘The Week’ by David M. Henkin (and the week): https://t.co/GhBY1NBHy5

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I knew that by typing up Mrs Dalloway I would refamiliarise myself with it. I didn’t anticipate that I would learn something about the minutiae of Woolf’s style. @JoAnnWallaceToo on Virginia Woolf’s commas and semicolons: https://t.co/LbVWMMLJH3

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Harlem Shuffle is not really a heist novel. It’s a subtle examination of what it is to disturb structures that have existed for generations, to shake oneself free from expectations based on race, gender and class. Paul Mendez reads Colson Whitehead: http://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n24/paul-mendez/did-he-leap