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‘It is a beast that needs to be tamed’  
Leading novelists on how AI could rewrite the future
Leading novelists on how AI could rewrite the future
Mike McCormack  
If I’ve one gift as a writer, it’s patience
If I’ve one gift as a writer, it’s patience
‘Sex, puns and labradors’  
How Olivia Laing fell for Jilly Cooper’s bonkbusters
How Olivia Laing fell for Jilly Cooper’s bonkbusters
The books of my life  
Jonathan Escoffery: ‘Langston Hughes shifted my worldview’
Jonathan Escoffery: ‘Langston Hughes shifted my worldview’
Audiobook of the week  
Red Memory by Tania Branigan audiobook review – tracing the scars of China’s Cultural Revolution
Red Memory by Tania Branigan audiobook review – tracing the scars of China’s Cultural Revolution
‘In the last four weeks language has deserted me’  
Adania Shibli on being shut down
Adania Shibli on being shut down
 
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The Guardian’s new Long Read magazine brings together the very best longform journalism, with immersive stories on everything from world affairs to philosophy, from food to crime.

 
Books of the week
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis review – miniature short stories
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis review – miniature short stories
The latest collection from the US author known for her playfulness and brevity has a wintry feel
The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya review – the right to run
Humiliation, harassment and triumph are part of the very public journey of a world-class athlete
Blackouts by Justin Torres review – a queer-gothic dreamworld
A marginalised history is salvaged from real‑life medical records in this strange and glorious novel
The Letters of Seamus Heaney review – amazing grace
Generosity, warmth and joie de vivre characterise this collection of the great poet’s letters
Manchester Unspun: How a City Got High on Music by Andy Spinoza – from Cottonopolis to Manc-hattan
A hugely entertaining account of the city’s resurrection over four decades, relayed by a well-connected former journalist, focuses on the catalytic role of Factory Records and the Haçienda
Spotlight
Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business
The long read  
Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business
The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?
Talking points and news
John le Carré’s son to write new George Smiley novel
John le Carré’s son to write new George Smiley novel
Nicholas Cornwell will return his father’s best-loved spy to the page in a new novel set between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Campaigners save Bradford birthplace of Brontë sisters
Crowdfunding and significant donation from Nigel West – who has a family connection to Charlotte’s husband – secure property, with plans to transform it into a cultural and education centre
Tania Branigan’s Red Memory wins 2023 Cundill history prize
The Guardian writer’s book explores the traumatic legacy of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution through those that experienced it
‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library
The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project
John Burnside wins the 2023 David Cohen prize for amazing body of work
‘He casts a spell with language of great beauty, power, lyricism and truthfulness’ said judging chair Hermione Lee of the poet and novelist
Britney Spears memoir helping drive UK book market growth, says WH Smith
Singer’s tell-all book and Richard Osman’s latest crime novel boosting pre-Christmas sales, says retailer
From the archive
What's so funny about comic novels?
Jonathan Coe  
What's so funny about comic novels?

From Fielding and Austen to Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis, humour has always been at the heart of English literature. Jonathan Coe asks who makes us laugh today – and is humour now harder to achieve?

Book Club with Naomi Alderman: The Power
Thursday 7 December, 8pm–9pm GMT
In our next Guardian Live Book Club, Alderman will discuss her bestselling novel, The Power, a whip-smart dystopian satire that was recently adapted for television.
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