25 books to read in 2025
From AI to the Beatles and from Pope Francis to Jung Chang, here are the new books to look out…
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How 4chan became the home of the elite reader
The left is losing its grip on the literary realm.
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The double gift of David Lodge
The author’s versatile genius posed a question: if you can’t write a novel, what gives you the right to pronouce…
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The happiness diary
In the 1920s, the writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner began a diary – and found a way to retrain her…
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Brian Close: cricket’s hard man
Stephen Chalke’s book One Hell of a Life shows there have been few braver or more idiosyncratic players.
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Sarah Jessica Parker is the perfect Booker Prize judge
As an extension of Carrie Bradshaw, she straddles the middle and high brow.
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In search of a new 20th-century canon
In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an…
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James Salter’s machismo myth
The all-action American novelist is praised for his virile heroics – but it was his instinct for “the feminine” that…
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