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4 days ago

Lily Allen's new album shows the pain behind the cool girl' myth that's why women are obsessed with it | Gaby Hinsliff

Lily Allen's new album portrays an open marriage gone sour, blurring autobiographical truth with fiction while confronting separation, motherhood, and public scrutiny.
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3 weeks ago

A hunger for wild, physical sensation': Alan Hollinghurst on painter and writer Denton Welch who died tragically young

All his characteristics as a writer are evident from the start: an astonishing candour of response to sensations of all kinds, with childlike repulsion registered as keenly as attraction; a clarity of style unbothered by literary convention; and a fierce solipsism, his sense of others exact and often unsparing, but his overwhelming purpose the record of his own needs, excitements and perceptions: not just things seen but the acutely subjective feelings they stir up in him.
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2 months ago

Vilhelm's Room by Tove Ditlevsen review a portrait of catastrophic mental illness

Vilhelm's Room follows Lise Mundus, a 51-year-old acclaimed writer abandoned by her husband, consumed by memories and resolved to end her life.
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3 months ago

Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden review darkly funny Swedish autofiction

Andrev's childhood is a series of tumultuous experiences with seven fathers, marked by disappointment and violence.
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