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Hello—this is the cover of my new book, Is A River Alive?, which is published next May. It’s taken me 3 1/2 years to write this book. I’ve poured all I have into it. My notebooks were always thirsty; I filled over 20 of them while on fieldwork. It’s become the most political,…

RobGMacfarlane's tweet image. Hello—this is the cover of my new book, Is A River Alive?, which is published next May.

It’s taken me 3 1/2 years to write this book. I’ve poured all I have into it. My notebooks were always thirsty; I filled over 20 of them while on fieldwork. It’s become the most political,…
RobGMacfarlane's tweet image. Hello—this is the cover of my new book, Is A River Alive?, which is published next May.

It’s taken me 3 1/2 years to write this book. I’ve poured all I have into it. My notebooks were always thirsty; I filled over 20 of them while on fieldwork. It’s become the most political,…
RobGMacfarlane's tweet image. Hello—this is the cover of my new book, Is A River Alive?, which is published next May.

It’s taken me 3 1/2 years to write this book. I’ve poured all I have into it. My notebooks were always thirsty; I filled over 20 of them while on fieldwork. It’s become the most political,…

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Excellent news. @mjohnharrison's 1992 masterpiece THE COURSE OF THE HEART will be in print again soon (at least in the UK) ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2024/10/24/fro…


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We have shortlist news! A massive congratulations to all our finalists and huge thank you, as always, to our sponsor @blackwellbooks Check out all the pretty books on our dedicated page. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/edito…


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A lovely surprise this morning. FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (my collaboration with award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett) is in the @guardian's roundup of the best new chapter books! theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…


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And a special congratulations to all of the translators whose work has enabled readers around the world to read HAN KANG’s books —

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

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The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”


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UK PAPER BOAT, Selected Poems, out today from @vintagebooks. Clever Creative Director @suzanneldean + paper artist @thisisnathanward made a design so you can build a paper boat ! (If you don’t want to ruin the cover, copy the design…) Instructions: penguin.co.uk/articles/2024/…

MargaretAtwood's tweet image. UK PAPER BOAT, Selected Poems, out today from @vintagebooks. Clever Creative Director @suzanneldean + paper artist @thisisnathanward made a design so you can build a paper boat ! (If you don’t want to ruin the cover, copy the design…) Instructions: penguin.co.uk/articles/2024/…

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“The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…


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Wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% since 1970. An update to the biodiversity stripes by @findingnature. findingnature.org.uk/2024/10/10/vis…

ed_hawkins's tweet image. Wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% since 1970.

An update to the biodiversity stripes by @findingnature.

findingnature.org.uk/2024/10/10/vis…

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'This remarkable book vividly resurrects a transformative period in history, offering a child’s perspective on a radical social experiment whose consequences she would carry throughout her life.' 🙏 @LindaLappin1 for her insightful review. @FigTreePenguin calirb.com/home-is-where-…


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Paper Boat by Margaret Atwood review – the poetry collection of a lifetime theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…


Great, fascinating review by @ClaireDederer

"I couldn’t help but hope that Cohen would turn away from his landscape survey, no matter how brilliantly done, and take us more deeply into the experience we are all sharing, like it or not: the dawning realisation of our own disappearance, and the fury that arises therefrom."



"I couldn’t help but hope that Cohen would turn away from his landscape survey, no matter how brilliantly done, and take us more deeply into the experience we are all sharing, like it or not: the dawning realisation of our own disappearance, and the fury that arises therefrom."


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Writing this book was a labor of love and resistance. It came from my life in war and my years of learning how to resist with love and life a heartless enemy driven by hate and hubris. I spent the two decades after 2006 with families in their homes in frontline villages in South

mu_kha2's tweet image. Writing this book was a labor of love and resistance. It came from my life in war and my years of learning how to resist with love and life a heartless enemy driven by hate and hubris. I spent the two decades after 2006 with families in their homes in frontline villages in South

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So sick. Remember that members of Congress are permitted to own stock in war manufacturing, so when they vote to send more bombs or send our loved ones to war, they profit personally.

While the wider market is down today, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon are reaching record highs

prem_thakker's tweet image. While the wider market is down today, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon are reaching record highs


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Pulitzer Prize winning author #JhumpaLahiri declined to accept an award from New York City's Noguchi Museum after it fired three employees for wearing keffiyeh head scarves, an emblem of Palestinian solidarity, following an updated dress code. thehindu.com/news/internati…


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