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Trading goods, not feelings: an academic goes on 100 dates to find a rich spouse

Trading goods, not feelings: an academic goes on 100 dates to find a rich spouse

Mariam Rahmani’s witty debut novel, Liquid, set between the US and Tehran, is a rom com for the age of precarity.

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Astrid Edwards

Secret twins? A casually brutal biography of Joan Didion and ‘soul mate’ Eve Babitz blurs ethical boundaries, but exhilarates

Lili Anolik admits her first book on Eve Babitz, Hollywood’s Eve, was a way of “driving a stake” through her subject’s heart, hoping to end...

10.12.2024 4

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Astrid Edwards

Praiseworthy makes history: Alexis Wright is the first author to win the Miles Franklin and the Stella Prize for one book

Waanyi writer Alexis Wright and her magnum opus Praiseworthy have made history by winning this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. She’s now the...

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Astrid Edwards