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I spoke to the writers behind the trippy new sci-fi novel 'Detour': 'Things don't need to be 100% correct, but they do have to be believable'

"If Neil deGrasse Tyson read this book, he would not be thrilled."

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Vladimir author Julia May Jonas: ‘We’re imprisoned by our obsessions’

As her debut novel becomes a Netflix series starring Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall, the American author talks about comparisons with Lolita, moving on from #MeToo and problematic authors

The Guardian - UK

Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’

Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGee

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Crime and Punishment review – gripping portrait of Dostoevsky’s murderous antihero

Laurie Sansom’s bold decision to stage the literary classic with a cast of three pays off in parts thanks to compelling performances and an atmosphere of shadowy dread

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This iconic King Charles photo 'signalled a change' - and would 'never' have happened in Queen Elizabeth's reign

Photographer Chris Jackson took this snap on Coronation Day and he thinks the King has approached his role 'differently' to his mother

Woman & Home

The Reservation: Read it for the delicious people, not the prose

It did feel cruel, and not a little unfair, to give up all hope of good prose as early as page four, but that’s where it happened. It was right there in capital letters: “IT’S GRISHAM DAY, PEOPLE.” As in John Grisham, whose looming visit to Aunt Orsa’s — the…

Evening Standard

Will Heated Rivalry Season 2 Stay Faithful To The Books? The Show's Creator Weighed In

In Jacob Tierney we trust.

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Black-owned bookstores reach record numbers, but many still struggle

A new report shows the number has grown from just 54 in 2014 to more than 300 today.

Axios

Captured by Islamic State, Amera began writing letters to her lost brother: ‘I wrote because I was scared, but also because I have hope’

Amera last saw Ali in 2014, the day IS arrived at their village in northern Iraq. Now living in Australia, she’s published years of unsent letters

The Guardian - AU

'Shows people's desire to keep Jamaat out': Taslima Nasrin says BNP's Bangladesh poll landslide not due to party's 'popularity'

NEW DELHI: Author Taslima Nasrin, who has lived in exile since being forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 over her novel "Lajja," said on Saturday that the sweeping victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the recent elections reflects the public’s determination to prevent Islamist radicals from coming to…

The Times of India

A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello review – a profound exploration of the inner life

How are we to account for things that lie outside ordinary language? A woman’s emotions are precisely observed in a novel that brilliantly captures what it means to be human

The Guardian - UK

A World Appears by Michael Pollan: Grasping consciousness proves quite the head trip

There are, it seems, three big questions still unanswered by science. One: why is there something rather than nothing (the case for God as creator); the second: how did life evolve from dead matter; and third, what is consciousness (and what is it for). It’s the third that Michael Pollan…

Evening Standard

The Tell author sued over claims she stole stories of sexual abuse for best-seller

A woman is suing Amy Griffin claiming author stole descriptions of abuse she suffered

The Independent UK

John F. Kennedy Jr. Resisted "Difficult" Call to Prince Harry and Prince William Despite Carolyn's Wishes

JFK Jr. said "he didn't know them and thought that their situations greatly differed."

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The play that changed my life: ‘There were cheers, screams and gasps at our story – we couldn’t believe it!’

Dramatising Onjali Q Raúf’s refugee tale The Boy at the Back of the Class brought cheers and boos from a young audience – showing they can handle the truth

Disney+'s new sci-fi show gets a long-awaited trailer, and could be huge

The Testaments promises much pain

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Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott

Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

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The Guardian view on 25 years of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses: a love story that changed an industry

Editorial: Publishing has failed to deliver on its promises after Black Lives Matter. True diversity requires a lasting shift

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António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments

With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose

The Guardian - UK

António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83

Author of more than 30 novels, including Fado Alexandrino and The Inquisitors’ Manual, was widely seen as one of the most important voices in modern Portuguese literature

The Guardian - UK

From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now

AI ‘twins’, Mar-a-Lago lookalikes, Melania impersonator conspiracies … doubles proliferate in today’s culture – and nowhere more so than in a series of unsettling new novels that draw on a rich gothic tradition to tap into our paranoid times

The Guardian - AU

Bob Carr: ‘I really thought repeatedly, “Bob, the joke is on you”’

The former NSW premier and Australian foreign minister on losing the love of his life, and figuring out how to go on

The Guardian - AU

Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’

Amy Wallace spent years helping Giuffre write her life story. Now she reflects on what the survivor would have thought of the release of the Epstein files

The Guardian - UK

Saba Sams: ‘I’ve no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again’

The Send Nudes author on rereading Lorrie Moore, finding Dodie Smith at the right time, and the enduring brilliance of Muriel Spark

The Independent UK

Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones shortlisted for author of the year at British Book Awards

Authors Freida McFadden, Richard Osman and Mick Herron are also nominated for the award

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