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“The engine of his songs is empathy,” writes Greil Marcus about Bob Dylan in “Folk Music”. “Blowin’ in the Wind” is exhibit A for this theory https://t.co/aZdZbPC2Iz

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For anyone who wants to understand the building blocks of their own bodies—which everyone surely should—this is an informative and entertaining introduction.

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“Wasteland” is heavy on facts, many of them interesting and sobering... It does not offer novel solutions to the problem of waste... But the author succeeds in outlining the size of the challenge. His book should prompt serious discussion in boardrooms and parliaments.

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She rents Limoges porcelain tableware and invites smart friends to celebrate, then urges them to eat with their hands, “Moroccan-style”. This collision of cultures and expectations, as well as the hidden family dramas… make this novel one of Ms Slimani’s most ambitious yet.

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Kate Atkinson’s stories often depict the dispensing of rough-and-ready justice and the lives of ill-treated young women. There are missing girls aplenty in “Shrines of Gaiety”, her new novel https://t.co/TOJgVo4WQ7

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The tensions that play out violently on Tehran’s streets do not disappear in Ms Nafisi’s living room, but they become subjects of reflection and debate.

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Ottessa Moshfegh’s output is both prolific and eclectic. Her new book, “Lapvona”, is her strangest yet https://t.co/TKirt8wBzB

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“The Books of Jacob”, Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel-prizewinning tome, conjures up a society flooded with the new thinking that emerged from the Enlightenment and the French revolution https://t.co/yZxeavj1FE

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Harold Gillies established the first specialist maxillofacial unit in Britain. “The Facemaker”, a new book, recounts how he rebuilt the faces of soldiers maimed during the first world war https://econ.st/3MBhfTz

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Which character in C.S. Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” betrays his family for Turkish delight? https://t.co/QEmS4cLgwT