The Land in Winter has shortest odds of victory, ahead of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Andrew Miller is the bookmakers’ favourite to win the 2025 Booker prize, which will be announc…
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‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels ⊖
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A newspaper report about a missing girl, the memory of a midwinter emergency … Susan Choi, Andrew Miller, David Szalay and others on what inspired their shortlisted books
The Loneliness of Sonia and …
5 months ago
Why do the children of elderly patients stay away? Loneliness makes them get sicker and stay sicker for longer | Ranjana Srivastava ○
One of the greatest acts of love is simply bearing witness to the vicissitudes of ageing
Of the many patients over age 75 on my medical unit, half are what providers describe as “young old” and the re…
Kiran Desai: ‘I never thought it would happen in the US’ ○
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Since winning the Booker prize, the Indian author has spent two decades writing a follow-up. She talks about being longlisted again — and the immigration raids creating fear in her New York neighbour…
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai review – a dazzling epic ○
Longlisted for the Booker, this capacious story of love, work and family set between India and the US is both dizzyingly vast and insistently miniature
On a trip to see his grandparents in the Indian …
6 months ago
Loneliness is rife among young men. It’s time to get offline and talk to each other | Alexander Hurst ○
It’s tempting to scoff, but don’t dismiss the data. Modern man’s failure to forge real, meaningful friendships is bad for everyone
At first I was startled when the psychologist Angelica Ferrara told m…
The loneliest continent: epidemic of social isolation hits Africans as western culture spreads ○
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A World Health Organization study challenges traditional views of African society. Some blame technology, others urbanisation and living costs, but what is the solution?
Loneliness has been a constant…
This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions ○
Former winner Kiran Desai leads a varied field, while Alan Hollinghurst misses out
• Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw
This year’s Booker judges had a crowd…
7 months ago
Loneliness is a global health threat and a political failure ○
Social disconnection is as deadly as smoking and heart disease. The WHO now has a plan to help countries fight back.
10 months ago
Map reveals the loneliest countries in the world... and America's shocking standing ○
Loneliness is an epidemic across age groups, but none more so than seniors. Yet in the US, it's not the elderly who experience the highest rates of loneliness.