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I Tried the Viral $135 BiotySpa Body Sculpt Kit and Wow, It Lived Up to the Hype

I saw a difference after just one use.

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The Position of Spoons, and Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy review – portrait of the artists

Levy reflects on the creative women who have inspired her, in essays that range from the trivial to the profound

The Guardian - UK

The Position of Spoons and Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy review – an absorbing essay collection

The award-winning author’s thoughts on JG Ballard, Colette and…lemons

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Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’

Her ‘living autobiographies’ and novels have earned her legions of fans, but that success was hard won. Deborah Levy talks about stamina, boldness, and finding delight in the details

The Guardian - UK

Deborah Levy: ‘Writing and swimming help each other’

The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in January

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Swimming Home review – post-trauma at the poolside

A self-conscious adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel makes glib reference to the Bosnian war while it focuses on unsexy erotic tension at a luxury villa

The Guardian - UK

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Best books to gift (and gift again) at Christmas: The Independent newsroom make their picks

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

The Independent UK

The books we give as gifts

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

The Independent UK

Friday essay: how women writers helped me find my voice after divorce

When my 25-year marriage broke down in 2017, I did what I always do in my life, especially in times of crisis. I turned to books. Specifically, to books by women.

The Conversation

Top 10 books about solitary living

Finding your way without the social template of romantic love is a tough challenge, but writers from Deborah Levy to Hanya Yanagihara offer clues to how it can be done

The Guardian - UK

The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

The Guardian - UK

Update your beach read: 52 books for summer 2023, with some themes in mind

Let’s try something new this summer.

Chicago Tribune

Anyone who’s lost a loved one knows the pressure to visit shrines to the past. But it doesn’t always help

Four years after my husband’s death, the question of where to locate my grief still isn’t easy to answer, says the writer Kat Lister

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Deborah Levy unspools the pandemic experience in August Blue

DEBORAH Levy majors in that mood indigo. You ain’t been blue as Elsa M Anderson, the central character of her new novel. Elsa wakes up one morning…

ABC News

The best new books released in May, as selected by avid readers and critics

A beautiful grifter, a defiant prodigy and a political prisoner star in this month’s best books, which our critics describe variously as "utterly engaging", "beguiling" and "profound".

The Conversation

How do we remake ourselves after unravelling? Plunge into life and pay attention, suggests Deborah Levy's mesmerising new work

The opening sentence of Deborah Levy’s new novel August Blue contains the germ of the whole: “I first saw her in a flea market in Athens buying two mechanical dancing horses.” Its simplicity and specificity are classic Levy – and yet it’s loaded with mystery. Who is this woman? Why…

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman and The Story Of The Forest by Linda Grant.

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Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Silo to Ed Sheeran

A guide to the new releases over the coronation weekend

The Guardian - UK

August Blue by Deborah Levy review – how to construct a self

A concert pianist is shadowed across Europe by her doppelganger in this virtuosic novel of identity and breakdown

The Guardian - UK

August Blue by Deborah Levy review – double trouble in Greece

A doppelganger leads the way to suppressed secrets in the author’s wistful, fabular new novel

The Guardian - UK

How Deborah Levy can change your life

The long read: From her shimmering novels to her ‘living autobiographies’, Deborah Levy’s work inspires a devotion few literary authors ever achieve

The Guardian - AU

A sheep: the mascot of changing seasons

Sheep are descended from a ‘mouflon’. Yes (yes!)

The Conversation

How autofiction turns the personal into the political

It is timely that the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature went to French writer Annie Ernaux.

The Independent UK

The best books to read in 2023, from Prince Harry’s memoir to Zadie Smith’s new novel

Get ready to race through some thrilling books in 2023, with heavily anticipated memoirs and new releases from big-name novelists. Jessie Thompson picks some of the most exciting upcoming reads

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