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first contact

The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord review: Otherworldly sci-fi

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Nature

What the hermit of Loch Treig can teach you about living your best life

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Analysis

How Tolkien offers consolation in our dark times

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Women in translation

Top 5 books by women in translation, selected by Daniel Hahn

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multiverse

Bridge by Lauren Beukes review: Multiverse thriller by The Shining Girls author delivers

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Letter to my Younger Self

Dawn Butler: ’Nobody looked like me in politics’

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Review

The Dive: A clammy, cathartic scuba thriller

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Housing

People with assistance dogs are being illegally discriminated against when trying to find a home

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John Bird

Revisiting old ground was a Klee-full experience

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Paul McNamee

Fifth force opens up a universe of possibilities

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Lost Map

Lost Map: How to build a DIY label on love, woolly hats and sheep dung

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Memoir

How one girl secretly defied Afghanistan’s education ban

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Fiction

Top 5 books featuring magical creatures, selected by Katherine Rundell

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Environment

How I enlisted The Archers in an environmental battle for the soul of our countryside

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Robin Ince

I am brimful of love and excitement at the Edinburgh Fringe

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Review

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan: Poetry alive with compassion and acceptance

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Opinion

Sport is not just life and death. It’s far more important than that

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Cartoon

BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine

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Sam Delaney

Animal Kwackers and the affirming power of great TV

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