The New Review
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How to Talk About Places You’ve Never Been: On the Importance of Armchair Travel by Pierre Bayard – reviewThe academic is on familiar ground with this irreverent, occasionally jargon-heavy, bluffer’s guide
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Paul McCartney: The Biography by Philip Norman – reviewPhilip Norman’s considered biography portrays the ‘cute’ Beatle in all his creative complexity and breadth
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Games review roundup: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End; Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright/Conquest; Battleborn
Games review roundup: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End; Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright/Conquest; Battleborn
Uncharted 4 takes adventure gaming to another level, Fire Emblem sticks to a winning formula, but Battleborn is a messy mishmash -
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 16 – Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (1966)The novelist’s early essays provide the quintessential commentary on the 60s
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Zero K by Don DeLillo – profound and beautifulMortality is at the heart of this powerful new novel set in a cryonics lab – Don DeLillo’s best work since Underworld
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Tulip by Celine Marchbank review – a daughter’s floral tributeCeline Marchbank’s photographic journal of her mother’s terminal illness is rich in symbol and telling detail
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Metamorphosis: 19 True Stories About Change by Polly Morland – reviewMost of us are wary of change, but it can be the making of us, according to this persuasive study
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Five of the best tabletsThe new generation of mobile computers are powerful, sleek and able to cope with the demands of both work and play. We tried and tested some of the frontrunners
Rachel Cooke's shelf life Are you one of those for who the bell tolls for?