📚 Haruki Murakami’s *The City and Its Uncertain Walls* weaves a tender, tragic love story with a surreal walled town where dreams and grief intertwine. #Murakami #BookReview #Literature #Fiction #JapaneseLiterature #Surrealism #BookLovers buff.ly/yFEGSwG

Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald buff.ly/Fu4OpxD The gannet I found stranded in a car-park, something all wrong with its wings and its head too heavy for the neck to bear, beautiful bird, beautiful ugly bird. Not the street-parties day and night tomorrow...

Fiona McFarlane’s Highway 13 weaves linked stories on violence’s ripple effects. 2025 Miles Franklin shortlist standout! More on #BetterBooklist blog: buff.ly/LrajkeR Amazon: buff.ly/ZwohmMJ #McFarlane #ShortStories

Tade Thompson's 'Rosewater' blends sci-fi with urbanization. A fresh take on African futures! Innovations in lit: buff.ly/H96XM3j Get it: buff.ly/gPUo5Iv #SciFi #Thompson

Thriller meets satire in Oyinkan Braithwaite's 'My Sister, the Serial Killer'. Fresh genre innovation! Modern trends: buff.ly/H96XM3j Amazon: buff.ly/8rHQLxV #Braithwaite #Thriller #BetterBooklist

Tragedy and prophecy weave through Chigozie Obioma's 'The Fishermen'—a Booker-shortlisted gem! Family drama in Nigeria: buff.ly/H96XM3j Amazon buy: buff.ly/bL6n9mg #Obioma #AfricanFiction

NoViolet Bulawayo's 'We Need New Names' examines hybrid identities. Poignant migration story! 21st-century voices: buff.ly/H96XM3j Buy: buff.ly/59iIqo8 #Bulawayo #Migration #BetterBooklist

Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” showcases 250+ works from the 1940s to the 2000s, blending #Yoruba traditions with modern techniques. A vibrant look at decolonization and cultural reinvention! #NigerianArt #TateModern buff.ly/lYb80cN

✨ Gerhard Richter’s 60-year career shines at Fondation Louis #Vuitton with 270 works, from photorealistic paintings to abstract “Strip” images. Don’t miss this monumental retrospective! #LouisVuitton #GerhardRichter #Art buff.ly/lYb80cN

🌌 Lee Bul’s sci-fi cyborgs and karaoke pods take center stage at #Leeum in #Seoul! This landmark show of 150 works explores human-tech tensions. Catch it before it travels to M+ in Hong Kong. #LeeBul #ContemporaryArt buff.ly/lYb80cN

🖌️ Explore #Symbolism at the Art Institute of #Chicago’s “Strange Realities” this fall! Featuring Edvard #Munch and Jean #Delville’s haunting Medusa (1893), this show dives into the psyche with 85+ works. #Symbolism #ArtHistory buff.ly/lYb80cN

🎨 Fall 2025 is packed with must-see museum shows! From Ayoung Kim’s “Delivery Dancer” trilogy at #MoMA PS1 to Kerry James Marshall’s “The Histories” at the #RoyalAcademy, dive into art that challenges and inspires. 🖼️ #ArtExhibitions #Fall2025 buff.ly/lYb80cN

Tom Gauld on classic novels reworked for men – cartoon buff.ly/dOsfG8K

‘I’ve seen so many people go down rabbit holes’: Patricia Lockwood on losing touch with reality buff.ly/vzxrtw7

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup buff.ly/XMx9Fw5

All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert review – excruciating to read buff.ly/FV90Kcz

No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes review – a thrilling take on the Golden Fleece myth buff.ly/c5obdoX

Wainwright prize for nature writing awarded to memoir about raising a hare during lockdown buff.ly/13A6p7f

Bunny author Mona Awad: ‘I’m a dark-minded soul’ buff.ly/UA5uMd0

Dive into Ismail Kadare’s The Pyramid, a gripping tale of power and paradox in 26th-century BC Egypt. 🏜️ Young Pharaoh Cheops resists building his pyramid, but his court insists it’s a tool to control the masses. #IsmailKadare #LiteraryJourney buff.ly/TBpCv89