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1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Anushree Nande

   Review | ‘Kin’ by Tayari Jones: a moving story of sisterhood, love and loss (opens the original)

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   In Kin, the latest offering from Women’s Prize-winning author Tayari Jones, childhood friends Vernice and Annie are bound by a quirk of fate early in their lives: the former is left motherless by domestic violence, the latter by abandonment. Set against the realities of the American South in the mid-20th century, among other things, the novel is the story of two cradle sisters by accident, kin by choice. Jones grips you from the opening lines — “My first word was mother. Not ma-maÂ

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2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Anushree Nande

   Review | Hamnet fame Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel, Land, is set in post-famine Ireland (opens the original)

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   Maggie O’Farrell’s tenth novel, Land, begins on a cold, windswept peninsula that stretches out into the Atlantic like “an imploring hand”. It is 1865 and Tomás and his 10-year-old son Liam work on the Ordnance Survey to map the entirety of an Ireland still unrecognisable just a decade out from the Great Famine. O’Farrell’s great-great-grandfather worked on this project around the same time. In the novel’s introductory note, she wonders what it would have been like “to be record

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3. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Anushree Nande

   Review | ‘The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions’ by Ruth Ozeki is a rewarding anthology (opens the original)

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   All 11 stories in Ruth Ozeki’s debut short story collection, The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions, feature typewriters — whether as a key narrative element, a passing reference, or a recurring motif. It makes sense when you realise that the anthology’s central preoccupation is with memories, storytelling and language — the ways in which we remember, the stories we tell about ourselves and others, the inevitable gaps in those stories, what our records reveal and conceal, and how our memor

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