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In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles. By Trip Gabriel Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary ...

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By Dwight Garner How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer A new book by Alissa Wilkinson ... worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke.

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An American man has finally woken after spending nearly 20 years in a coma. The first word Terry Wallis, 39, uttered was "Mom" after catching sight of his mother sitting by his bedside. His second ...

The NHS undertakes more than 8,000 Achilles tendon repair operations a year. Here, Elizabeth Brooker, 32, a theatre nurse who lives with her husband near Penryn, Cornwall, tells us about her ...

The state election result shows the Labor brand is still in good shape in the west. Anthony Albanese will be hoping some of the gloss shines his way.

March 12, 2025 • To be a Palestinian-American writer right now can lead to a lot of expectation to focus on identity and devastation, but in her debut novel, Too Soon, Betty Shamieh shares the ...