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Between enemies-to-lovers and 'shadow daddies', BookTok has fallen in love with the spicy stories combining romance and fantasy. But there is more to the subgenre than sex, say the fans who queued for hours outside the brick-and-mortar Oxford store . ...

The story of a lifelong friendship between two art-world mavericks from the working-class midwest is disappointingly pious ...

Sedaris plays up the curmudgeonliness in a collection that still entertains ...

Too hot to handle ...

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness ...

Whether you're learning guitar or trying to get fit, short bursts of effort can work wonders ...

As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT ...

Cafés by Holly Pester; The Acrobat by Wisawa Szymborska; Volvelle by Rachael Boast; Tree of Knowledge by Victoria Chang; Talk a Blue Streak by Lila Matsumoto ...

This lavishly researched book shows that dots and dashes are an essential component of style, whether you're a medieval monk or Donald Trump ...

Racial and gender politics are woven into a clever tale of murder and morals at Cambridge ...