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Have you been keeping up with your reading? Test your literary wits with this week’s books quiz
Wed May 14 2014 - 12:00
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Catholic? Protestant? Communist
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Life as a Great Blasket caretaker: I knew I would go back, but I would not live it the same way
Ben Lerner: ‘I want us to think of the book as another hand-held device’
Sara Baume on the best new fiction in translation
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