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- Sep 19, 2026
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Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood â Cosy middle-class comforts (opens the original)
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Australian novelist Charlotte Wood is extraordinary at inserting disquiet into the things that comfort â community, family, food and faith. In her threading of domestic details with existential dread, food is often a primary player. Her latest novel, 2024âs Stone Yard Devotional, set in a convent, juxtaposes plagues of mice and the skeleton of a dead nun with chopping vegetables and minding hens. Perhaps this is why we judge Love and Hunger, Woodâs collection of food writing, to a high sta
The Bridge by Colm TóibÃn: A painful chronicle of relationships in collapse (opens the original)
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Miquel is a young gay man in Francoâs Spain whose motherâs death in a blizzard was the subject of Colm TóibÃnâs brief masterpiece A Long Winter. TóibÃnâs short novel The Bridge begins with a new bridge that promises to connect Miquelâs remote Catalan mountain valley to the outside world. It introduces temptations: electricity, smuggled contraband, strange men with whom to have encounters. When catastrophe occurs, the hurt, rendered with the authorâs plainly worded reserve, is acu
About to Fall Apart by Ashley Hickson-Lovence: A hilarious meditation on writing and family (opens the original)
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Abandoned as an infant by his Irish mother and black father, 70-year-old Aidy, an aspiring writer, is trying to finish a short story by Sunday in his bachelor cottage. An ageing man, one weekend â at just over 150 pages, About to Fall Apart begs to be read in one sitting. But the book is also distinguished by its singular style of phrases punctuated with forward slashes: âAidy didnât want to punch him/ he really didnât/ but that guy had it comingâ. Ashley Hickson-Lovenceâs previous w
Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction â elegant, ambitious and very smart (opens the original)
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Before embarking on Middlemen, Laura McGrath thought of literary agents as money-grubbing, âmarginally intelligentâ stereotypes: âThe women are sour, shrewish types who chain-smoke; the men have winning smiles and a tendency to yell.â Equal parts history, journalism, sociology and literary criticism, Middlemen, like its frequently misunderstood subjects, is elegant, ambitious and very smart. McGrath spent 10 years interviewing more than 75 agents, combing archives and analysing a mind-bo
The son of AA Gill and disciple of Anthony Bourdain is both sweet and irritating in his tender memoir (opens the original)
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Alasdair Gill, author of Knives and Spoons, his memoir of addiction and being a London chef, has two fathers â his actual dad, writer AA Gill, and Anthony Bourdain, whom Gill briefly meets and who hovers over these pages like a benevolently gruff papa. Both the older Gill and Bourdain â food-writing icons whose impacts have outlived them â wrote about their addictions. Talk about anxiety of influence. Itâs a swift read, ordered like a tasting menu with each chapter titled after a dish. G
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