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In Michael Farris Smith's seventh novel, "Salvage This World," a ray of hope shines through the bleak landscape and gritty storytelling.

A religious con woman, old grudges and nonstop hurricanes threaten the characters in Michael Farris Smith’s novel “Salvage This World.”

Paulina Bren, Two Roads, $32.99 The Barbizon residential hotel for women opened in 1928 and became a mecca for young women across the US – often in pursuit of artistic careers. Women could feel safe in the heart of New York. Men weren’t allowed past the lobby, but Grace Kelly – a pre-fame resident – found ways around that.The list of women who lived there over most of the century is imposing. For Sylvia Plath, who set her novel The Bell Jar there, it was a disturbing experi...

Gatsby gets new life, but not in a way Fitzgerald might have imagined We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement It is one of the most famous last paragraphs in modern literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald ended The Great Gatsby with these memorable words: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” And that, you would think, was that. Only Gatsby is not being borne ceaselessly into t...

by Mary Lawson (Chatto £14.99, 304 pp) Anne Tyler is a fan of this Canadian author and you can see why: Lawson is intrigued by the same, deceptively ordinary, small-town lives. This is set in a far-flung community in the north of Canada during the 1970s, and centres on the relationships between three people: an eight-year-old girl, Clara, whose older sister, Rose, has just run away; Mrs Orchard, her elderly, hospitalised neighbour; and Luke, the man Mrs Orchard loved as a little boy and to who...

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By Steve Donoghue Correspondent F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby” entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2021. The book is already a staple of American life; it has been taught in schools for decades, and Hollywood blockbuster movie adaptations starring handsome actors have been followed, generation after generation, by other Hollywood blockbuster movie adaptations starring other handsome actors. But now, anybody can print and sell their own edition of w...