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The sea takes many forms in fiction. It was an adventure playground in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and a rowdy neighbour in Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn. It played the wine-dark seducer in Homer’s Odyssey and the snot-green tormentor in Joyce’s Ulysses. But while its colour can change and its humour may vary, its fictional properties remain reassuringly stable. The sea is our unconscious, a repository of memory, the beginning and end of all things. It’s what Jules Verne described as the “Living Infinite”. In Madeleine Thien’s rapturous fourth novel, The Book of Records, “the Sea” is the name...
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March 8, 2025
22:00
Mao Zedong’s first Little Red Book had blue cover and less propaganda
Source: theguardian.com
February 15, 2025
22:00
Marcelo Rubens Paiva On The Oscar-Nominated Adaptation Of His Book ‘I’m Still Here’
Source: deadline.com
January 28, 2025
21:40
Antony Blinken has a deal for a book about his years as Joe Biden’s secretary of state
Source: ca.finance.yahoo.com
January 28, 2025
21:03
Antony Blinken has a deal for a ‘candid’ book about his years as Joe Biden’s secretary of state
Source: clickondetroit.com
January 1, 2025
19:00
Meet the new head of Parliament’s library, the most exclusive book club in Canada
Source: theglobeandmail.com
August 25, 2024
03:04
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s fantasy novel The Book of Elsewhere is just as gory as you’d expect
Source: abc.net.au
June 30, 2024
13:00
The ‘Malayali on the moon’ and fault lines of caste: What drove generations of migration from Kerala
Source: scroll.in
June 26, 2024
17:00
At the Edge of Empire by Edward Wong review – changing state
Source: theguardian.com
June 23, 2024
22:30
On the Shadow Tracks by Clare Hammond review – a train to Myanmar’s dark heart
Source: theguardian.com
