The outcry and activism of the 2010s – itself enabled by earlier generations of feminists – brought us to this moment. But if the Trump administration has its way, opposing forces will prevail
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The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell ⊕
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Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway
Four young women sit together, waiting for the phone to ring…
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From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked! ⊕⊕
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As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop
The oeuvre of Katy Perry occasionally h…
81 days ago
Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus review – activists display their defiance ⊖
Collateral comedy spins out from underneath the repression and violence charted in this sobering documentary that follows three indefatigable women
There are many symptoms of totalitarian sickness gri…
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Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit ⊖
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The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy
As Donald Trump deteriorates and his grasp on power fades, he has been lashing out furiousl…
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How in my 50s I reversed my skin's biological age by 18 years: As a high-tech scan proves I look 36, the skincare, foods, night serum and things I NEVER do that have knocked decades off me - and vanished my wrinkles ⊕
George Orwell taught us that, 'at 50, everyone has the face he deserves'. Now, in a suitably Orwellian development, futuristic technology is about to tell me whether this is true.
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit ⊖
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Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope spea…
‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst ⊕⊕
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and th…
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The Anthony Bourdain Reader review – undiscovered gems from the charismatic chef-turned-writer ⊖
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A new collection brings essays, fiction and fragments together in a wild if uneven portrait of a restless mind
Think Anthony Bourdain and a whole rush of TV memories flood back. There he is – in shows…
My life in Gaza: ‘We burned our copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four to bake bread. What would Orwell think of us now?’ ⊖
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From fleeing Gaza City to a birthday in the family – Karim recounts a month in the territory
My life in Gaza: ‘Do you know the series Squid Game?’
Karim is a trained nurse in his early 20s from Gaza Ci…