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“Literature cannot be a compensation for history, but it can point to an absence. It’s a form of accusation, if you like.” —Elias Khoury buff.ly/3OaLwfM

“To give life shape—that is what a writer does.” —Jean Rhys buff.ly/3Rfoerr

"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors." ~ Ernest Hemingway

The Booker shortlists of the 1970s are of exceptionally high quality, and while some of the novels may have fallen out of fashion, they’re essential volumes for any keen reader’s library. Here are 10 novels well worth rediscovering, five decades later ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

THE NIGHT GUEST, by Hildur Knútsdóttir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal, reviewed by Dimitris Passas cleavermagazine.com/the-night-gues… Cleaver Magazine

“La Chimera,” “Evil Does Not Exist,” “Close Your Eyes,” and more: see the films our critic Justin Chang thinks deserve Academy Awards. nyer.cm/QVTsB5F

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.” —Susan Sontag buff.ly/3C8K8rg

“Poets don’t have an ‘audience’: They’re talking to a single person all the time.” —Robert Graves buff.ly/46DFMle

"Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to." ~ D. H. Lawrence

“I don’t know what I think about certain subjects until I sit down and try to write about them.” —Don DeLillo buff.ly/2PEvCfU

In her latest novel, "Clean" (Riverhead Books), Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán brilliantly explores a claustrophobic environment of class discrimination, cultural distinctions, and the struggle to endure a dreary life. New review by Dimitris Passas: raintaxi.com/clean/

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Locked In by Jussi Adler-Olsen worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/loc…

Share for the world to know. Greece has awakened. #Tempi

Solenoid, written by Mircea Cărtărescu and translated by Sean Cotter, submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life, and then spirals into something else entirely. Find out more about the #InternationalBooker2025-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

“It’s odd, the older I get, the more I remember.” —Umberto Eco buff.ly/mvcjWca

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘FATHER, MOTHER, SISTER, BROTHER’ is set for a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Starring Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver.

“A writer needs his poisons. The antidote to his poisons is often a book.” —Philip Roth buff.ly/JTky8ly