The Women’s prize-shortlisted novelist on taking inspiration from John Steinbeck, Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri, and weeping through Little Women in her 30s
My earliest reading memory
I’m not sure wh…
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Take a trip on Route 66: still delivering kicks after 100 years ⊕
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The US’s most famous road celebrates its centenary. The 2,400-mile highway crosses eight states and three time zones from Chicago to LA
The Mother Road, as the author John Steinbeck called it, has evo…
4 months ago
Benjamin Wood: ‘John Fowles’s The Magus was so frustrating I threw it at the wall’ ⊕
The author on the Steinbeck novel that moved him to tears, how becoming a father inspired him to reread Marilynne Robinson, and the culinary comforts of James M Cain
My earliest reading memory
When I…
9 months ago
‘You can learn a lot by losing’: meet Don Manuel, the 104-year-old chess player ⊕
Manuel Álvarez Escudero, from Spain, describes how the board game has provided him with a lifetime of fun and friendship
The year Manuel Álvarez Escudero learned to play chess, fascist bombs rained do…
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