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Books, friendship and the dark side of popularity (opens the original)
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Schools are messed up self-contained microcosms. If you ever went to one, you’ll know what I mean. Unless maybe you were one of the cool kids for whom the ecosystem worked to make you into a deity among mortals, and you’ve never felt the need to look back and wonder whether it all really made sense. Regardless of where you fell in the inevitable and inscrutable hierarchy of school as a 12-year-old, it’s likely you’ll find something that resonates in The Moon Without Stars. Luna Noon is not one o
In Triage, Claudia Rankine chooses grief over hope (opens the original)
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At the climax of Triage, one character says to the other, ‘Your romance with grief won’t help the living.’ It’s a moving line that achieves the bold narrative shift of pushing the text’s protagonist into the role of putative villain (this is too simplistic, but to complexify it here would be challenging), but also sums up something about the text itself, which is that Triage is ultimately – and perhaps deliberately – unsatisfying. What is certainly deliberate about Triage is its desire to resist
Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy ends on a high (opens the original)
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Endings are hard. And when you’ve enjoyed two books as much as this reader enjoyed Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto, it was always going to be difficult coming to the end of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy. Perhaps it’s for the best, then, that Cool Machine manages both not to disappoint and also not to wow so much that you end up feeling bereft when you have to put it down. Whitehead, consummate as always, gives us what we’ve come to expect. Back comes Ray Carney, family man, furniture sale
Need time to think? Try 20 hours adrift in the Gulf of Mexico (opens the original)
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Here’s what happens in Man Overboard!: a man falls (or jumps) over the side of a cruise ship; he treads water for 20 hours; while treading water he thinks about his life. That’s it. If you think that sounds like a pointless and stupid premise for a novel, you’d be spectacularly wrong, but also probably not the reader this novel deserves. If you want to see how a writer could pull off this premise without it being pointless and stupid, you should read the book. Patrick ‘Kick’ Kilpatrick is 33, a
Getting outside and meeting people might reveal we’re more alike than different (opens the original)
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When Lauren Hough set off across America in 2023 in her self-refitted second-hand Dodge van, she had the twin goals of circling the US and not traumatising her dog, Woody Guthrie. As readers setting off across a deeply polarised nation in the company of a six-foot left-wing lesbian who is no fan of the ‘orange billionaire’ or the people who voted for him, we expect that her implicit aim is to illustrate the failings of an America with whose current state the author is clearly at odds. Hough know
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