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<p>‘She was able to get dirty. She and John understood that sometimes there has to be a little grime to have a good time’: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in 1999</p>

The Reading List

25 years after her horrifying death, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy remains an enigma

Two new books claim to be the definitive texts on the 33-year-old wife of John F Kennedy Jr, who was killed – alongside her husband and her sister Laura – in a 1999 plane crash. But they only perpetuate her fashionable mystique, writes Adam White

Comment

One of the summer’s must-read novels is on the Booker longlist

<p>Edna O’Brien understood longing better than most writers: the longing for experience; for escape; for sex and love that was ‘forbidden’ </p>

Tribute

Edna O’Brien: a great literary crusader and giant of Irish literature

<p>‘There’s Nothing Wrong with Her’ is a novel based on Kate Weinberg’s ordeal with long Covid </p>

The Reading List

The new novel describing the unique hell of long Covid

Reviews

<p>Alba Arikha’s 2017 memoir, ‘Major/Minor’, was widely acclaimed</p>

Two Hours by Alba Arikha is a lesson in forging a life without regret

<p>Salman Rushdie pictured in 2023</p>

Salman Rushdie’s Knife is moving, sardonic and not for the squeamish

<p>Liz Truss recounts her brief time in office in her new book </p>

Liz Truss’s ludicrous memoir self-pityingly recaps 49 days of disaster

<p>Dunn’s ‘As Young as This’ joins a wave of novels exploring thirtysomething women’s often jumbled feelings about their fertility and having kids</p>

The novel exploring the thirty-something fertility question

Lists

<p>July’s best books include novels by Camille Bordas and Austin Duffy and non-fiction about trees and parks</p>

The best new books to read this July

<p>Fiction highlights for the year ahead including Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘lost’ novel and new titles from Stephen King and Emily Henry </p>

The best fiction to read in 2024

The best non-fiction to read in 2024

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