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She had on no knickers, and my heart went crash-bang-wallop and my eyes popped out. She hadn't shaved, and her fanny looked like a tropical fish or a bit of old carpet. #BadSex

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RT @socratic Haven’t you anti-Oxford Comma people done enough damage? http://t.co/aRenA6prHS

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Afternoon everyone. Hopefully you've all digested your lunch, as well as the shock news that the 2020 #BadSex awards will not be going ahead. In lieu of the award, here are some of our favourite shortlisted passages from 2006-2019. They're out of context, as always.

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We breathe heavily, breached, adjusting to air. There is a fish smell too, as if the tide had just gone out. #BadSex

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'The story he tells is one of hard work, little money and narrow horizons, reminiscent of Laurie Lee’s "Cider with Rosie" but without the adolescent sex and occasional violence.' @CharliePyeSmith is entranced by @herdyshepherd1 's 'English Pastoral'.

Charlie Pye-Smith - Peak Soil

Charlie Pye-Smith: Peak Soil - English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks

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And as his trousers slipped down his legs all the burdens of his life to date seemed to fall away from him #BadSex

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‘Empty my tanks,’ I’d begged breathlessly, as once more she began drawing me deep inside her pleasure cave. Her vaginal ratchet moved in concertina-like waves, slowly chugging my organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey. #BadSex

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Once he’d trained his sphincter to stop reflexively impersonating a Chinese finger trap, it felt pretty good

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Oh shit, my nipple’s on fire. She’s poured lighter fluid onto my chest and my tit’s gone up in flames like some dessert in a posh restaurant. ‘Fuck, Rosa! Aggghhhh! For fuck’s sake! Blow it out! Blow it out!’ #Badsex

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The longlist for the #RathbonesFolio has been announced & we’re very lucky to have a complete set of books to give away. To be in with a chance to win all 20, follow @Lit_Review and @RathbonesFolio , RT, and tag someone else who'd like to enter!

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Anne Hathaway’s cow-milking fingers, cradling my balls in her almond palm, now took pity on the poor anguished erection, and in the infinite agony of her desire, guided it to the quick of the wound. #BadSex

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“You wanna pop me?” she said… I’d like to say that she stepped out of her jeans, but in truth it took a while to maneuver two large dimpled buttocks and the accompanying vaginal wedge out of the hard shell of her Miss Sixty denims #BadSex

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I must say, more than 140 characters is doing wonders for #BadSex tweeting.

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Literary Review is hiring! We're looking for an Editorial Assistant, working 3–4 days a week from our office in Soho. More details here:

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Literary Review's July issue is out now! In this month's cover piece, @nclarke14 reviews @LauraCummingArt ’s ‘Thunderclap’, a ‘remarkable experiment in form as well as a richly satisfying extended meditation on art, life and death’.

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We're glad you've stopped now.

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They should specify that the Bad Sex Awards is for writing. Seven years I was sending in those tapes.

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'Throughout his life Pliny himself remained recognisably the same person who, as a teenager, had opted to keep his nose in his books rather than head towards an erupting volcano' @holland_tom reviews @DaisyfDunn 's new biography of Pliny.

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Right, mugs down, sandwiches to one side, here are some favourite bits from #BadSex 1998-2006. (I've chosen these years because our archivist decided, in all their wisdom, to sort the passages in this way.)

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It's that time of year: the double issue is put to bed, Christmas trees begin to spring up, and the Bad Sex in Fiction Award rears its head. Coming up: some #badsex tweets from this year's crop and previous delights.

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Her vagina was all that, as they say in the urban media – a powerful ethnic muscle scented by bitter melon, the breezes of the local sea, and the sweaty needs of a tiny nation trying to breed itself into a future. #BadSex

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The thing inside her jerked and threshed, a rising salmon, plunging home to spawn. #BadSex

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'Construction, a largely male industry, conflates care with weakness, venerating the toughest of materials, often at the expense of higher carbon emissions.' @PhinHarper makes the case for building with earth.

Phineas Harper - Build Brown, Go Green

Phineas Harper: Build Brown, Go Green - The Art of Earth Architecture: Past, Present, Future by Jean Dethier

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their fiendishly loving wrestle began once again, rolling across the floor as hot-tempered enthusiasts of lustful joy as both adorers’ bodies did their sexual staccato heaving and barging into place #Badsex

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"Æthelflæd is one of the most significant figures in English history that most people have never heard of." @holland_tom muses on Anglo-Saxon heritage and how history is written to reflect its own age.

Tom Holland - What I Learned from L du Garde Peach

Tom Holland: What I Learned from L du Garde Peach

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O, glorious pubes! The ultimate triangle, whose angles delve to hell but point to paradise. Let me sing the black banner, the blackbird’s wing, the chink, the cleft, the keyhole in the door. #BadSex

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'Women are a vital interpretative community, but it’s still assumed that our experience is niche.' @clamorousvoice on why women read fiction.

Sophie Duncan - She-Readers

Sophie Duncan: She-Readers - Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor

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And the winner of the 23rd Bad Sex in Fiction Award is..... Morrissey

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Today we're celebrating a very special landmark. Our 500th issue is out now!

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Out now! Literary Review's June issue, featuring Peter Davidson on Elizabeth I's Q Branch @GylesB1 on a near-disastrous indiscretion @william_whyte on dons behaving badly @OborneTweets on literary cricketers @rosalyster on Richard Flanagan And much else:

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In this month's cover article, @alexvtunzelmann reviews @sarahchurchwell 's THE WRATH TO COME, a 'bold' look at how Gone with the Wind 'provides a kind of skeleton key, unlocking America’s illusions about itself'.

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Alex von Tunzelmann: Southern Comforter - The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell

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Phew. Enough for now I think. Same time tomorrow?

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His penis was prodding her leg and she took it in her hand like the snout of a dog. #BadSex

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Her hand opened me. Then her hand became a wing. Then everything about me became a wing, a single wing, and she was the other wing, we were a bird. We were a bird that could sing Mozart. Her beautiful head was down at my breast, she caught me between her teeth just once #BadSex

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With our September issue imminent, can anyone identify who @chrisriddell50 has illustrated on our cover?

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Emma Smith ( @OldFortunatus ) explores the art of the 'shelfie'.

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Emma Smith: What Is She Reading?

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Every month we publish a competition set by @_F_B_G_ , the winner of which receives a bottle of Hendrick's gin. Here are the winner and runner-up of October's task.

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'The Europeans who commissioned these paintings wanted a visual record of the extraordinary country they found themselves in.' @PParkerWriting is thrilled by @DalrympleWill 's new book of Indian paintings for the East India Company.

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Peter Parker: Artists for Hire - Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company by William Dalrymple (ed)

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I have negotiated the little thickets of hair on his chest and below his belly and got to the clearing to plant my triumphant flag. #BadSex

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The May issue of Literary Review is out now: Antony Spawforth on forgotten Cleopatras @daisysymetaylor on ancient poetry @djbduncan on jigsaws @profrhodrilewis on Shakespearian fiction Georgina Adam on art world fraud and much, much more

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not *that* Anne Hathaway

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At the front, she tasted salt as anchovy and as delicious. At the rear, bitter like chocolate and smelling strangely of tobacco. #BadSex

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'The idea that vitamin C might boost my immune system is based on a single sixty-year-old hypothesis with no evidence to back it up.' 'Sacred cows fall thick and fast' in @timspector 's 'Spoon-Fed', says @FelicityCloake .

Felicity Cloake - Food, Inglorious Food

Felicity Cloake: Food, Inglorious Food - Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong by Tim Spector

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That is to say, she rode me. It was all very classy and contemporary, like a modern-art survey course at NYU… “Yeah, do me,” she kept saying, after issuing a few grunts so male and assertive they startled me into a brief homosexual fear #BadSex

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Bianca shivers with pleasure. Simon whispers to her with an authority that he has never felt before: ‘Let’s construct an assemblage.’ #badsex

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‘We have moved on from the point where, not long ago, a British ambassador to Paris who tried to import some English wine for a dinner attended by the late Queen was told by French customs that there was no such thing as English wine.’

Simon Heffer - A Bottle of Château Maldon, Please

Simon Heffer: A Bottle of Château Maldon, Please - Vines in a Cold Climate: The People Behind the English Wine Revolution by Henry Jeffreys

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They were like two flamingos, each attempting to filter the nutriment out of the other with great slurps of their muscular tongues. #BadSex

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Our bodies came together again… He groaned, ‘Oh! Chairman Mao!’ #BadSex

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Out now! Literary Review’s July issue, featuring @fitzmorrissey on the Fabulist Misters Shah @M_Ignatieff on dictators @MarinaSWarner on Monique Roffey @WillWiles on Rat City Helen Bond on King Herod’s good side And much, much more:

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She clawed at my underpants with her varnished nails until my cock sprang free, a springy mustard-pot surprise, and she pulled at it with no pretence at finesse.

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Sebastian’s erect member was so big I mistook it for some sort of monument in the centre of a town. I almost started directing traffic around it. #BadSex

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He placed her carefully like a large terra-cotta urn and skillfully set about his work, as concentrated as a specialist restorer focused on her intricate finish, as if she wasn’t even there. #BadSex

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Sebastian’s erect member was so big I mistook it for some sort of monument in the centre of a town. (4) #BadSex

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she took hold of the fisherman’s fingers, nibbled them and sucked at them, coating them in a saliva so smooth that they became as slippery as if he had stuck them in a pot of honey, to the extent that he was then incapable of picking anything up. #badsex

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In my mouth her nipple turned from strawberry to deep raspberry but the taste I wanted was missing. I had sweat and what had to be soap from washing her dress or herself. Reaching behind me, I found the Brie and broke off a fragment, sucking her nipple through it. #BadSex

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She cracks me across the face with the back of her hand, grips my throat, spits in my eye and scrapes her nails across my scalded flesh. And that’s when I come. Oh yes. That’s when the core of my soul spasms and snaps, spilling out its filthy pips. #BadSex

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it's both

Tom Jamieson

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Either it's The Bad Sex Awards time again, or afternoons at The Literary Review are one hell of a lot more exciting than I'd imagined.

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'From an early age he was clearly aware of himself as another, like Rimbaud, and of all it would take to stay true to the myth that rose up in him.' On Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, read @reversediorama on the early years of this 'thief of fire'.

David Keenan - The Truth it is a-Changin’

David Keenan: The Truth it is a-Changin’ - The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Volume 1, 1941–1966 – A Restless, Hungry Feeling by Clinton Heylin

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There was a lot of semen this year. A lot.

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@Lit_Review Is it just me or do the Bad Sex Awards come earlier every year?

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Our bodies came together again… He groaned, ‘Oh! Chairman Mao!’ #BadSex

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Iris Murdoch was born one hundred years ago today. Thirty-six years ago, we published this interview with her

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John Haffenden: Interview with Iris Murdoch

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The 25th Bad Sex in Fiction is happening in a week. There’s a press release if you’re the sort of person who wants a press release #BadSex

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'The point of Blood Meridian was terror, and grandeur, and beauty, and mystery, and creeping, apocalyptic dread.' @holland_tom recalls his time reading Cormac McCarthy in the American badlands. (£)

Tom Holland - Devil’s Own Country

Tom Holland: Devil’s Own Country

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Out now! Literary Review’s August issue, featuring John Adamson and @TedVallance on the Cromwells @AMcMillanPoet on Thom Gunn Peter Davidson on Caspar David Friedrich @misbehavingmonk on James Baldwin @rosalyster on Ursula Parrott And much, much more:

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bad sex in fiction badexifctn bdexift brexit

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He began thrusting wildly in the general direction of her chrysanthemum, but missing – his paunchy frame shuddering with the effort of remaining rigid and upside down. #BadSex

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My legs opened. He entered me. He was softer than the can of mousse. He didn't have cold edges. My skin relaxed and the tissues yielded. Kari dived deeper. He swam with fast strokes until he reached the bottom, a region I had never managed to find. #BadSex

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'McCarthy’s portrayal of a cosmos fashioned by God for killing and exploitation, in which angels, perhaps, are predators and paedophiles, is one that continues to haunt me.' @holland_tom on reading Blood Meridian in the American west (£).

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Tom Holland: Devil’s Own Country

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his knee pushing against her lower back to open her tunic and expose a portion of naked flesh against which he would then rub his organ as if he were furtively making omelette rolls. #BadSex

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'Invisible Women' is a timely "reminder of how much the status quo stealthily favours the male half of the population" @polblonde reviews @CCriadoPerez 's 'Invisible Women'

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'In the case of roughly half of the fallen statues ... conservatives were among the most enthusiastic supporters of tearing them down.' @BurlM11 's review of @alexvtunzelmann 's 'Fallen Idols', which has been shortlisted for the @WolfsonHistory Prize.

Michael Burleigh - Pedestal Pushers

Michael Burleigh: Pedestal Pushers - Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History by Alex von Tunzelmann

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too long to type. Just look: #BadSex

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Anyway, between now & a week on Weds, on weekday lunchtimes, I’ll try to do some tweets from Bad Sex of years past.

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‘Horrifying ... and compelling, this is crime writing of the best sort.’ @NJCooper_crime reviews thrillers by @blacklionking73 , @mredwards , @GillyMacmillan , @policecommander , @LivKiernan , @nilanjanaroy , @Comey , @LM_Chilton , @MWCravenUK & @SlaughterKarin .

Natasha Cooper - June 2023 Crime Round-up

Natasha Cooper: June 2023 Crime Round-up - All the Sinners Bleed by S A Cosby; Keep Her Secret by Mark Edwards; The Fall by Gilly Macmillan; The Fallen by John Sutherland; The End of Us by Olivia...

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'Shame is no longer a sufficient reason for silence. The children and grandchildren of post-partition immigrants to Britain need to know who they are and how they got here' John Keay on @kavpuri 's 'harrowing' book, 'Partition Voices'.

John Keay - From Lahore to Lancashire

John Keay: From Lahore to Lancashire - Partition Voices: Untold British Stories by Kavita Puri

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We were sorry to learn William Trevor passed away yesterday. We published his stories in the magazine. Here's one:

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The Christmas double issue of Literary Review is out now! Browse the contents here:

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RT @HistoryNeedsYou #WilfredOwen 's manuscript of 'Dulce et decorum est' with amendments by Siegfried Sassoon. http://t.co/ncL7YfvOBV

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'Feminists have been caricatured so often that it’s worth recalling the many obstacles placed in the path of women campaigning for equal rights.' @polblonde on @helenlewis 's new book about difficult women throughout history.

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'Sensitive and hyper-intelligent, Lamb could be immensely, often inappropriately funny, but he stuttered and suffered from low self-esteem and chronic depression.' Edward Weech on the forgotten Charles Lamb.

Edward Weech - The Man with the Golden Pun

Edward Weech: The Man with the Golden Pun - Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb by Eric G Wilson

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A lot of people have tweeted 'membrane' to me today.

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She begged me: “Please, fuck my pussy.” – “No.” I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg. #BadSex

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'From the beginning Farage was drawn to politics as performance.' His classmates at Dulwich College 'recall him volunteering to speak on any motion, such was his confidence in his powers of persuasion'. @steverichards14 on the rise of Nigel Farage.

Steve Richards - Brawls & Brexit

Steve Richards: Brawls & Brexit - One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage by Michael Crick

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In 'Silenced Voices', @lucyjpop explores the case of journalist Paola Ugaz, who has faced harassment, defamation lawsuits and even death threats since she helped uncover corruption and abuse in a Peruvian Catholic organisation in 2015.

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Lucy Popescu: Paola Ugaz

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The wet friction of her, tight around him, the sight of her open, stretched around him, the cleft of her body, it tore a climax out of him with a final lunge. Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her. #BadSex

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Perineum – was that it? Her mind screamed: Shut up, Lucy! You’re not doing the Cosmopolitan crossword now. (3/3) #BadSex

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In years gone by, I've tweeted some excerpts from #BadSex past and present. I'll try to do that tomorrow / Weds / Thurs if that's your cup of tea. Or, you know, I could just not.

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O, glorious pubes! The ultimate triangle, whose angles delve to hell but point to paradise. Let me sing the black banner, the blackbird’s wing, the chink, the cleft, the keyhole in the door. #BadSex

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Who’s for some #BadSex tweets and that sort of malarkey?

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'The return of nature to Wordsworthian commentary is a corollary of the environmentalist spirit of the age.' Seamus Perry on Jonathan Bate's 'Radical Wordsworth'.

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Seamus Perry: Force of Nature - Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate

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Later today: announcing the #BadSex shortlist. I'll do some snippets as tweets too. Tune in to have your lunchtime ruined!

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With his melted boxer shorts around his ankles and his buttocks flexing like the rump of a great stone goat god of mythology #BadSex

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'On that long September dusk, it was as if I’d proved to myself, or to the invisible audience for which I’d been performing my entire life, that I could do motherhood this way.' @lsjamison contemplates Norway, relationships, and being a mother.

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Merry Christmas from Literary Review! Hope your stockings were laden with books, and the tree bending under the weight of further books....

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The Thomas Mann quote is especially nice: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Spot on.

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The November issue of Literary Review is out now!

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Perception is a weird thing. Lawrence Durrell saw Hydra as a ‘great horned toad’ but Henry Miller thought it resembled a ‘huge loaf of petrified bread’. Niko Ghika painted it as a series of neat white and orange squares.

Joanna Kavenna - The Call of the Wine-Dark Sea

Joanna Kavenna: The Call of the Wine-Dark Sea

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'It is hard to think of any human institution enduring for centuries of which it can seriously be said it was all good or all bad.' Jonathan Sumption reviews @NigelBiggar 's 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning'.

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Jonathan Sumption: Cruel Britannia? - Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar

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'Do you want to see my vagina? Have you ever looked at one?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘Why "of course"? Many men haven’t. Straight men. They’re scared to. It's the Medusa's head, that turns them to stone.' #BadSex

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Now his skin was glazed in roast pork sweat. Now she made a noise like a tortured Moomintroll. #BadSex

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10 years

Thank you for all the kind support in this difficult time.

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