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José Salas Subirat, the eccentric first translator of Joyce’s Ulysses into Spanish
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From Hunter S Thompson to Philip Roth, Shirley Jackson and John Connolly, great writing has a way of making readers feel less isolated in a world of anxiety and upheaval
Trump makes dystopian classics bestsellers again
From 1984 to The Handmaid’s Tale, It Can’t Happen Here and Brave New World, readers are turning to books for insights into an America changing before their eyes
Bob Dylan could tackle changing times in Nobel speech
This weekend, the literary giant will be celebrated at the Nobel prize-giving ceremony. He harnesses the power of language like nobody else
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A selection of writers pick the books that best make sense of the US election, and the ones that predicted the rise of a Trump-style candidate
Uri Avnery: Israeli politics bears comparison with end of Weimar Germany and rise of fascism
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