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Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal life

In Japanese writer Sayaka Murata’s fiction, characters do perverse thi…

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No more ‘subway spaghetti’! New Yorkers adjust to first new transit map in 50 years

The first major overhaul since 1979 seeks to simplify the map’s old illegible squiggles – but faces opposition from change-averse New Yorkers

The New York City subway map has always been tricky to dec…

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Team GB legend Paula Radcliffe, 51, opens up on emotional return as she sets sights on Six Star glory ahead of Boston Marathon

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: A decade on, she has returned to the roads to chase down her remaining stars - crossing Tokyo off her list last month and now lining up in Boston on Monday.

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Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures

Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly – that is unless you’re talking about those in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. Commissioned in 2019, creatives including renowned architects Shigeru Ban and the …

‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata

The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’

“I have had…

15 days ago

Ryan Gosling standalone Star Wars film confirmed

Due out in 2027, Starfighter will be directed by Deadpool & Wolverine’s Shawn Levy and will be separate from the nine-film Skywalker franchise

Star Wars producer Lucasfilm has officially confirmed tha…

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