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Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

What we're reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Claire Baglin's 'On the Clock' uses narrow focus on fast-food work to reveal profound truths about contemporary alienation and precarity with compassion and emotional depth.
Media industry
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Not OK? Booker winner Flesh ignites debate about state of masculinity

A Booker-winning novel centers on a taciturn Eastern European working-class man whose toxic masculinity and life trajectory sparked debate about literary masculinity.
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