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The Borrowers review – Arrietty and co’s awfully wordy adventure

With a cumbersome script and no sense of danger or atmosphere, this production loses its way

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Jessica Parker joins Booker Prize 2025 judging panel

The Hollywood actress owns her own literary imprint.

The Independent UK

Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel for 2025 Booker Prize

The panel is said to be a ‘a jury of creative peers like no other’

The Independent UK

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Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Sex and the City star says being asked ‘felt very daunting’, as she signs up to pick the year’s best novel with Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

The Guardian - UK

Maga on the River Plate as global populist right descends on Argentina

CPAC jamboree draws big names from Trump world as Milei positions Buenos Aires as international conservative hub

The Guardian - US

Nikki Giovanni, poet and literary celebrity, has died at 81

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died

The Independent UK

Nikki Giovanni, acclaimed poet of the Black Arts Movement, dies aged 81

The award-winning US poet and author of works like Black Feeling, Black Talk and Those Who Ride the Night Winds has died after a third cancer diagnosis

The Guardian - AU

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Author of Elon Musk-Endorsed Book Praised by Suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer Responds:'You Missed the Point'

The author of a self-help book on the U.S. political environment said that the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO killer missed the point of his book.

Latin Times

Prue Leith wants you to cheat

In her new cookbook, "Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom," Leith gives cooks permission to cheat

Salon

John Rose obituary

Other lives: London student recruited to undertake anti-apartheid actions in South Africa in the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books in school, public libraries

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law to prohibit book bans in the state and enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law

The Independent UK

Did you solve it? That Sally Rooney hat puzzle

The solution to today’s puzzle

The Guardian - UK

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Netflix adaptation is faithful, ambitious and beautifully realised

First published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude, marked out Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez as a leading figure among the notable Latin American writers of his generation. Now, the long-anticipated Netflix adaptation of this epic saga comes to our screens after first being announced in 2019. It does…

The Conversation

The Philosopher Fish wins oddest book title prize

Richard Adams Carey’s study of the caviar industry scores a narrow victory over How to Dungeon Master Parenting

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Best books 2024: Our writers pick their favourite reads from 2024

All the books we loved in 2024

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond of Hawthornden

A sonnet about disappointed love is enlivened by a large imagination and technical fluency of great vitality

The Guardian - UK

Historic Thomas Hardy building in Dorchester damaged by fire

Property in Dorset town, known as Casterbridge in Hardy’s novels, was where he was apprenticed to an architect

Creative Bloq

First Impressions: freelance illustrator Marie-Alice Harel loves "the freedom" her work offers

First impressions; Marie-Alice on illustrating Peruvian folk tales, Howl's Moving Castle and Neil Gaiman stories

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The National (Scotland)

Thousands of free books gifted to the NSPCC this Christmas

NSPCC hubs across the UK have received more than 37,000 free books to share with partner agencies and families in time for Christmas as part of a…

MusicRadar

Wish that Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour could go on forever? Now even The Eras Tour Book will be a record-breaker

After hit albums and the world’s most lucrative tour, the star’s next number one is in publishing

The Guardian - UK

My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman review – an experimental romcom

The American author sets out to write a “feelgood” romance that honours her commitment to language as a charged, living entity

The Guardian - UK

Unmasking Lucy Letby by Jonathan Coffey and Judith Moritz review – reasonable doubt

A forensic study of the Lucy Letby case leaves many questions unanswered

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A new book from the Modernist Society focuses on a golden age of British graphic design

‘Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945-1980’ looks at all the ways in which post-war graphic design shaped the nation, from new typography to poster art, book design and more

The Guardian - US

‘People are rooting for the whale’: the strange American tradition of Moby-Dick reading marathons

For decades, diehard fans have joined together to read Herman Melville’s 600-page novel aloud in exotic locations

The Guardian - UK

Anthony Cummins’s best fiction of 2024

From Sally Rooney’s funny and observant latest to Joseph O’Neill’s compelling Godwin and Sarah Manguso’s gripping portrayal of a broken marriage, these are the year’s most enjoyable novels

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