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Surgery, shame and self-erasure: four female writers on the tyranny of impossible beauty standards

How did Botox become so popular? And why are teenage girls using anti-wrinkle cream? As a new film, The Substance, considers our obsession with youth and good looks, writers reflect on how this has shaped their lives

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'The Crane Husband,' by Kelly Barnhill

FICTION: An artist takes a crane for a lover in this fairytale-inflected novel by Newbery Medal-winning Minnesotan writer Kelly Barnhill.

Tribune News Service

‘Brave’ and ‘necessary’ or just plain regressive? How sad girls with bad boyfriends took over the internet

Every few weeks a different confessional essay goes viral, each one underpinned by gender essentialism and regressive ideas about relationships. Eloise Hendy unpacks the tropes that are rapidly becoming eerily influential

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The best memoirs and biographies of 2022

Heartfelt memoirs from Richard E Grant and Viola Davis, childhood tales of religious dogma, and vivid insights into Agatha Christie and John Donne

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'The Crane Wife,' by C.J. Hauser

NONFICTION: Author C.J. Hauser pursues love and happiness as she gets to know herself in "The Crane Wife."

Tribune News Service

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser review – frank and funny essays on doomed romances

This collection’s relentless focus on one person’s pursuit of intimacy invites us to redefine what a love story is

The Guardian - UK

The Crane Wife author CJ Hauser: ‘Do men have to be relatable? Maybe not’

The viral publishing sensation has turned her essay about why she cancelled her wedding into a book. She talks to Jessie Thompson about her rebel instinct, saying things out loud, being an ‘amphibian’ and trying not to hurt anyone

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18 brilliant books to add to your summer reading list

Choosing a reading list for the summer is a very serious matter. The Indy Culture team share the books we’ll be getting stuck into

The Independent UK

The best books to read this summer, from Ottessa Moshfegh to Gabrielle Zevin

Choosing a reading list for the summer is a very serious matter. The Indy Culture team share the books we’ll be getting stuck into

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