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Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week’s word: ...

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor revealed that his “favourite big word” this election season is "defenestrate". Tharoor, who routinely leaves people looking for the dictionary, thanks to his usage of ...

The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft (Riverhead). Published in Poland before its author won a Nobel Prize, in 2018, this epic reimagines the life of the ...