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Poetry workshop: Fresh from winning this year's National Book Award, Mark Doty invites you to make a close study of another species -
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Books for Christmas: Critics, authors, and regular folks tell us which books thrilled them most this year
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News: The barrister Constance Briscoe has won the libel case brought against her by her mother, Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, over her bestselling misery memoir Ugly.
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Interview: Alison Bechdel hoped that Fun Home, her very personal graphic memoir, would heal her family's wounds. Instead it led to terrible upset
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Justine by Lawrence Durrell: John Crace pays a flying visit to the Alexandria Quartet
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This week's reviews and features
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Review: A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
Pearce's final book is a moving farewell to fiction, family and life, says Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Interview: Nicholas Birch is spellbound by an afternoon with Turkey's master novelist
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Bad Sex in Fiction: To coincide with the infamous award, take a peek at the bedroom shenanigans of some of the shortlisted authors
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