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A 2021 novel by the South Korean writer Han Kang, “We Do Not Part” is now being published in English for the first time in a ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...

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The new Hunger Games book, Sunrise on the Reaping, is all about grumpy mentor Haymitch Abernathy’s Hunger Games. Haymitch had ...

Henry James’ ‘The Princess Casamassima’ tells a story of political radicalism in a time of economic inequality. But even ...

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey” waiting. While her husband, Odysseus, spends two decades fighting ...