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Japanese women wearing kimonos attend their Coming of Age Day celebration ceremony at Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo

Hiromi Kawakami’s new novel challenges stereotypes about Japanese women

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YOU WIN OR YOU DIE

The end of “Game of Thrones” could promote political engagement—or apathy

Five of the six novels on the Man Booker International Prize shortlist are written by women

Leona, 7, poses inside a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books titled "aMAZEme" at the Royal Festival Hall in central London

How children’s books have written mothers out of the story

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A spectacular collection of Indian language literature is coming online via Amazon

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IF LOOKS COULD KILL

“Bird Box” taps into a Lovecraftian horror tradition rising from the deep

Short books make for sweet reading.

The liberating thrill of a slender book

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CIVIL DISCOURSE

Trump’s America is what terrifies the king of horror most

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A new novel suggests universal basic income would make people deeply unhappy

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The best books Quartz India read in 2018