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I Want You to Be Happy is the excruciating millennial novel everyone will be reading this summer

BOOKS: Abandon your Monzo pots, ye who enter here! Jem Calder’s debut novel, about a millennial copywriter and a wannabe Gen Z poet, captures modern life at its most expensive, overwhelming and bleak – but the book is ultimately hopeful, he tells Jessie Thompson

The Independent UK

How to spring clean your life: From mindset to digital declutter

IN FOCUS: Spring isn’t just for tidying your home. From sleep routines and beauty resets to detoxing your wardrobe, finances, and digital life, six writers share how they’re making space for a fresher, lighter season

The Independent UK

Revealed: Hidden scandal of NHS staff exposed to cancer-causing chemical deemed the ‘next asbestos’

SPECIAL REPORT: Exclusive: Staff have been left disabled, suffering from severe asthma, and forced out of their jobs as the NHS and UK regulators fail to protect thousands from a toxic cancer-linked chemical. Rebecca Thomas reports

The Independent UK

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Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’

The writer on bingeing Henry James, his friendship with Benjamin Zephaniah and a confidence-boosting classic

The Guardian - UK

Who are the worst mothers in literature? Our experts weigh in

The first sentence of Anna Karenina is now a literary cliche, yet contains a nub of truth. “All happy families,” writes Leo Tolstoy, “resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

The Conversation

‘I want to write a book about you’: a deft tale of theft and deception skewers Australian literary culture

“Writers who write about writers,” cautions Richard Yates, “can easily bring on the worst kind of literary miscarriage.” He continues:

The Conversation

American author Joy Williams: ‘The comfy story has got to change’

The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny

The Guardian - UK

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AM Homes: ‘We want to believe that opportunity exists for women now; it does and it doesn’t’

The US author on trying to add a note of optimism to her work, getting advice from Jeanette Winterson, and her prescient new novel about a coup in Washington

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