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In this essay, Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez praises the translator and translation’s ability to increase our access to the world and broaden our sense of humanity.

Some studies suggest that remote workers spend up to 13 hours a day anchored to this piece of furniture where they have all kinds of habits, manias and superstitions

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by <strong>Imogen Dewey</strong>

The legendary travel book, one of the author’s four masterpieces, traverses the former Yugoslavia at a time when the seed was being planted for the wars to come that would ravage the region

"I was an ocean away from anyone who’d made fun of my body ... so I tried to psych myself up for this new adventure."

From Paul Murray’s brilliant tragicomedy to Barbra Streisand’s epic memoir, Guardian critics pick the year’s best fiction, politics, science, children’s books and more. Tell us about your favourite books in the comments

Former spooks make especially strong authors

Former spooks make especially strong authors | The Economist reads

"I would be happy to have motifs as signatures throughout my work as much as certain stylistic preoccupations," says the author Bennett Sims.

Novelist whose exhilarating genius came into its own with Possession, a worldwide bestseller and winner of the Booker prize