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‘It’s so boring’: gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids – and educators are worried

Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind

The Guardian - US

Princess Anne Didn't Agree With Queen Elizabeth's One Wish for Her Grandchildren—And it Left The Late Queen "Disappointed"

The Princess Royal had other plans in mind.

Marie Claire

As the first born, am I the smartest? Maybe – but siblings shape us in far more interesting ways

A new book explores the impact of birth order, but how we measure up against our brothers and sisters can be complex, says writer and journalist Imogen West-Knights

The Guardian - UK

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Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allure

The Guardian - UK

The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey review – beyond the bounds of fiction

You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: chapter two of the ultimate Jane Austen docu-series

The extraordinary story of history’s most famous female author continues. Plus: Nathan Fielder’s awkward social experiment. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Katie Piper says man threw sandwich at her after noticing facial burns

The TV host and activist spoke candidly at the 2025 Hay Festival

The Independent UK

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BBC ‘defied’ Thatcher with ‘brave’ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, says author Jeanette Winterson

Lesbian coming-of-age drama came out at a time when former PM was seeking to stop positive portrayals of homosexuality

The Independent UK

Working from home? It’s so much nicer if you’re a man

Ever since lockdown we’ve supposedly all been in it together, doing conference calls in our slippers. But in straight couples, guess who gets the spare bedroom and the proper desk, asks Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

‘Publishing is a dream, but this has also been one of the hardest years of my life’: Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher

The novelist has been awarded the Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. She talks about giving up medical training to pursue fiction – and the childhood memories that inspired her winning debut, The Coin

The Guardian - UK

Dragon on Centre Street by Jonah Bromwich review – drama of Trump the felon

The New York Times reporter gives an insightful – and withering – account of the president’s hush-money trial

The Guardian - US

Author Philippe Sands was told it is ‘unacceptable’ to read Russian writer Tolstoy amid Ukraine war

‘It is complex,’ said the award-winning writer

The Independent UK

Norma Meras Swenson obituary

Sociologist and women’s health activist who was a co-author of the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Writing a book was meant to be a dream – but publishing it turned into a nightmare

COMMENT: Crowdfunding publisher Unbound is going into administration, leaving authors, contributors and shareholders unpaid. Kat Brown is one of the writers left high, dry and deeply disappointed

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Jacqueline Wilson says it would be ‘inappropriate’ to write about Tracy Beaker’s sex life

‘I would feel very wary about writing about Tracy in an adult book,’ said the author

Salon

Has Harry Potter become Voldemort?

You can't separate the art from the transphobic artist, but you can still love Harry Potter

The Guardian - UK

Gerlin Bean obituary

Other lives: Activist prominent in the British Black feminist movement

The Guardian - UK

‘In his company you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny and friendly – and liked to bet on my pool games

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Salon

World-weary bookworms crave rom-coms too

The director of "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" was inspired by Austen's ability to be both entertaining and deep

The Independent UK

With 'Atmosphere,' Taylor Jenkins Reid leaves the Evelyn Hugo-verse behind and travels to space

Taylor Jenkins Reid loves to research before writing

The Guardian - UK

Jacqueline Wilson ‘very wary’ of writing adult Tracy Beaker novel

Author says she won’t revisit the beloved character because it would seem ‘inappropriate’ to discuss her sex life

The Guardian - US

‘Science is a human endeavor’: astrophysicist uses art to connect Black and brown kids to the Stem fields

Through her book, Painting the Cosmos, and her non-profit, Onaketa, Dr Nia Imara hopes to introduce underserved youth to the sciences

Reason

Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Books, Magazines, and Newspapers: Dealing with Information Overload

[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," written for a… The post Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Books, Magazines, and Newspapers: Dealing with Information Overload appeared first on Reason.com.

The Guardian - UK

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies; Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez; Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski; Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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