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The social media-hating philosopher relishing his X ban

Famed philosopher AC Grayling is speaking at writers' festivals around Australia - but you won't find him promoting it on social media.

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Dianaworld review: For Diana fans to enjoy — but not to trust

Generally when I’m reviewing a book on a subject I’ve written about, I turn to the index as soon as I’m bored to see if I’m quoted, so I can skip to the scintillating bits. No need to, here; I rock up in the very first paragraph of the introduction:…

Evening Standard

OPINION - If you want to make London unwelcoming for LGBTQ people, you've picked the wrong city

London is a living, breathing anthology of stories. From Soho to Dalston, every corner whispers tales of those who dared to be different. It’s in these streets that Oscar Wilde once walked, where Virginia Woolf penned her thoughts, and where countless unnamed heroes lived authentically, even when the world wasn’t…

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After a sometimes graphic debate, Texas House advances bill limiting kids’ access to sexually explicit books in libraries

The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.

The Texas Tribune

Five Great Reads: Japan’s love hotels, Tom Hanks’ daughter, and the double life of Gordi

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan

The Guardian - AU

Two Pints review – Roddy Doyle’s boozy banter is a masterclass in comedy

The writer’s gift for gags is on full display in this adaptation starring two men offering up laddish chat along with questions of life and death in an Irish pub

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Wilson: ‘Worrying about your gut biome when the world’s burning is too indulgent’

From I Quit Sugar to the ‘shittification of life’, writer and journalist Sarah Wilson on breaking up with hope and finding happiness in collapse theory

The Guardian - AU

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'Hamilton' author Ron Chernow's new book takes on an icon of American letters, Mark Twain

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” and for his biographies of George Washington and Ulysses Grant

The Independent UK

Kids author Mo Willems and The Pigeon stare down the future in a new book

Author Mo Willems has sold millions of books and won many awards, but the accolade that means most is when a parent says their child read aloud for the first time from one of his books

The Independent UK

About 160 historic George Orwell papers saved for nation after outcry

Exclusive: University College London acquires Gollancz archive that was in danger of being dispersed forever

The Guardian - UK

Authors speak out against failed US book festival: ‘shattered badges and silence’

Grace Marsceau promised to pack A Million Lives event. Authors arrived to empty rooms, unpaid bills and no decor

The Guardian - US

Stars of the 80s prog scene line up for book launch live event

Members of Pendragon, IQ, Pallas, Twelfth Night and Solstice to feature on panel discussion and an audience Q&A at launch for new 80s prog book

Louder

Willkommen, bienvenue! New festival celebrates translated fiction from Cameroon to Slovakia as sales boom

Co-organised by translator Polly Barton, Translated By, Bristol will feature conversations between writers and their translators, plus a ‘translation duel’

The Guardian - UK

Emma Jane Unsworth: ‘I blush when I think of Miranda July’s All Fours. I became a changed woman’

The author of Slags on Patricia Highsmith, Judy Blume and her lifelong reaction to Yeats

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The best science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie; The Incandescent by Emily Tesh; Land of Hope by Cate Baum; A Line You Have Traced by Roisin Dunnett

The Guardian - UK

Gunk by Saba Sams review – boozy nights and baby love

The Send Nudes author’s follow-up conveys a profound message about the insufficiency of the nuclear family

The Independent UK

The boom in health memoirs and what they can tell us about being human

IN FOCUS: Nick Duerden speaks to the writers who’ve spilled their vulnerabilities onto the page, and asks why readers are flocking to books about the spirit of survival

Apple TV+'s biggest sci-fi epic to return after a two year absence

Foundation Season 3 has finally got a release date – it'll premiere on Apple TV+ on 11 July 2025.

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Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent review – absorbing memoir brings Iceland to life

The Burial Rites author traces her abiding love affair with the country that inspired both her award-winning debut and her brilliant literary career

The Guardian - UK

Forever review – an absolutely adorable TV take on Judy Blume’s banned teen sex classic

The 1975 novel might be barred from US schools and libraries, but it gets a hugely important telling here. It’s powerful, sweet – and with a cast as excellent as Heartstopper’s

The Guardian - US

‘Get rid of the pseudoscience’: top doctor’s plan to improve America’s health

Eric Topol says we can prevent age-related disease and live fuller lives – but only if we reject anti-science ‘malarkey’

International Business Times UK

Who Is Casey Means? Influencer Is Trump Pick For New Surgeon General - Why Is She Controversial?

Questions arise over her lack of traditional public health experience and her views on medicine and nutrition

Marie Claire

As her second book, Live To Eat, hits shelves: Em The Nutritionist shares the 7 life lessons she swears by

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The Guardian - UK

Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson review – a genre-defying graphic novel about class, religion and globalisation

Can you tell the American story via ginseng? Thompson’s funny, moving and exquisitely drawn work has a go

Evening Standard

Graydon Carter's London guide: the editor and author eats at Maison François and loves Anderson & Sheppard

The author longs for the return of the Draycott, would take a date along the Embankment, and wishes you could still smoke indoors

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