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George RR Martin: ‘I don’t get how people hate something they loved’

The ‘Game of Thrones’ creator sits down with Kevin E G Perry at the Santa Fe Literary Festival to discuss toxic fans, the enduring influence of Marvel’s Stan Lee, and the new HBO series ‘House of the Dragon’

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Holly Williams: Love conquers all? Not in my novel

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Why Waif Girl is one of pop culture’s most insufferable characters

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Selma Blair’s Mean Baby captures the final days of Hollywood privacy

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Jasmine Sealy: ‘It’s sinister to call all Bajan people “friendly”’

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Abi Morgan: ‘The Split is filled with a lot of my pain’

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Raven Smith: ‘Men are a club I was born into that I still don’t get’

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John Grisham’s 10 best novels ranked

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Emily St John Mandel: ‘I think we were all a little deranged in 2020’

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Sophie Haydock on her incendiary debut novel about artist Egon Schiele

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Jack Kerouac at 100: Trauma, faith and rotgut wine

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Julia Armfield: ‘Horror and romance spring from the same core’

Reviews

Emily Ratajkowski’s My Body is a candid critique on fetishisation

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Sally Rooney’s new book is stimulating, but not aimed at the olds

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Sarah Ferguson’s Mills & Boon novel is too chaste to set pulses racing

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Finally, the Fifty Shades franchise can be put to bed

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Culture

Martin Chilton Books of the month: From House Arrest to The World in 2050

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Sandra Cisneros: 10 books by Latino authors you should be reading

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The 20 best books of 2020

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How to be a bestselling writer, according to prolific authors

India

Geetanjali Shree becomes first Indian winner of Booker Prize

Long Reads

David Barnett Dracula at 125: How a nobleman vampire got his fangs into the world

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Stephen King calls for ‘gun control now’ following Uvalde shooting

Books

How #bookstagram has changed the way fiction is read

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Features & interviews

George RR Martin: ‘I don’t get how people hate something they loved’

Holly Williams: Love conquers all? Not in my novel

Why Waif Girl is one of pop culture’s most insufferable characters

Selma Blair’s Mean Baby captures the final days of Hollywood privacy

Jasmine Sealy: ‘It’s sinister to call all Bajan people “friendly”’

Abi Morgan: ‘The Split is filled with a lot of my pain’

Raven Smith: ‘Men are a club I was born into that I still don’t get’

John Grisham’s 10 best novels ranked

Emily St John Mandel: ‘I think we were all a little deranged in 2020’

Sophie Haydock on her incendiary debut novel about artist Egon Schiele

Jack Kerouac at 100: Trauma, faith and rotgut wine

Julia Armfield: ‘Horror and romance spring from the same core’

Reviews

Emily Ratajkowski’s My Body is a candid critique on fetishisation

Sally Rooney’s new book is stimulating, but not aimed at the olds

Sarah Ferguson’s Mills & Boon novel is too chaste to set pulses racing

Finally, the Fifty Shades franchise can be put to bed

Lists

Martin Chilton Books of the month: From House Arrest to The World in 2050

Sandra Cisneros: 10 books by Latino authors you should be reading

The 20 best books of 2020

News

How to be a bestselling writer, according to prolific authors

Geetanjali Shree becomes first Indian winner of Booker Prize

David Barnett Dracula at 125: How a nobleman vampire got his fangs into the world

Stephen King calls for ‘gun control now’ following Uvalde shooting

How #bookstagram has changed the way fiction is read

Valeria Luiselli: ‘Borders are testing grounds for brutality’

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