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David Mamet’s 40 years of Hollywood scandals; Brexit and its undoing of Theresa May’s premiership; Neel Mukherjee’s globe-hopping novel of human connections; a twisted narrative of breakdown and descent into terrorism; dark, fractured fiction from Jón Kalman Stefánsson — plus Nilanjana Roy on the revelations of writers’ letters and Alex Clark’s pick of new audiobooks
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A British-Nigerian odyssey, a day in the life of a daydreaming English student, and fathers and sons in an ex-mining town
Featuring cannibalism, Nazis and Soviet leaders having sex, this novel and short-story collection — finally available in English — are like nothing else
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