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Bob Woodward’s new book War is a sober but alarming must-read

Watergate reporter says Trump is far worse than Nixon and ‘most reckless and impulsive president in American history’

The Guardian - US

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – characters that never grow old

Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton return, the former now in a retirement community, in the author’s understated but hugely rewarding study of small-town life

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s quite galling’: children’s authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles

Keira Knightley is latest star to publish a children’s book, but some say trend pushes aside genuine writers and makes it harder to find great children’s fiction

The Guardian - UK

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Yehuda Bauer, prominent Israeli Holocaust scholar, dies at 98

Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem

The Independent UK

Autumn review – Ali Smith adaptation has humour and charm in spades

It is a treat to see this kaleidoscopic meditation on stories and the nature of time brought to the stage, even if at times the play struggles to hold the full weight of its ideas

The Guardian - UK

Becoming Nancy review – 70s-set coming-out musical radiates optimism

Terry Ronald’s true-life tale of a bullied gay teenager who prevails in the school production of Oliver! is performed with affecting verve

The Guardian - UK

Time of the Child by Niall Williams review – sublime tale of small-town Irish life

An abandoned baby changes the lives of a doctor and his daughter in a beautifully written novel about second chances and familial love

The Guardian - UK

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K-pop, K-movies, a Nobel prize … and now K-poetry: book of wise words adds to Korea’s cultural glory

After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success

The Guardian - UK

Eve opens up about her new memoir, the gritty edge of UK rap and the industry’s major 'reckoning'

The American rapper, 45, tells The Standard: ‘It's time for these men who have been using their power and all the other things... it's time for their reckoning’

Evening Standard

Karla’s Choice: A John le Carré Novel by Nick Harkaway review – the Circus is back in town

John le Carré’s son does him proud in an excellent spy thriller about a Soviet agent that faithfully bridges two of his father’s classic tales

The Guardian - UK

The history book that will transform your view of early civilisation

Forget the Silk Roads, it’s the Golden Road we should be celebrating. Renowned historian William Dalrymple argues that, thanks to its major role in global trade between AD300 and 600, it’s India, rather than China, to which we owe some of the most important developments in human civilisation, writes Melanie…

The Independent UK

Plum review – Brendan Cowell triumphs as a rugby league player off the rails

Based on its star’s novel of the same name, the series about recovery and redemption is affecting, poetic and anything but cheesy

The Guardian - AU

American author Joy Williams: ‘The comfy story has got to change’

The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny

The Guardian - UK

Cooking for one? Sometimes frozen lasagne just won’t cut it and life calls for a cheese soufflé

A new book of classic but simple recipes makes solo cooking more pleasure than chore

The Guardian - UK

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Inverse

The Most Anticipated Sci-Fi Sequel of the Decade Could Come Way Sooner Than You Think

Denis Villeneuve is definitely (maybe?) heading back to Arrakis. Here's what the director has revealed about when a third 'Dune' movie, 'Dune Messiah,' could start filming.

The Guardian - UK

Book returned to Cumbria school library 113 years overdue

Poetry of Byron borrowed by schoolboy Leonard Ewbank, who studied at Oxford and was killed at Ypres in 1916

The Guardian - UK

‘There was eye-watering fear’: John le Carré’s son on writing a new George Smiley novel

Nick Harkaway was a successful novelist in his own right when his brothers asked him to continue their late father’s spy series. Could he pull it off? Plus an exclusive extract from his novel, Karla’s Choice

The Guardian - UK

Nobody’s Empire by Stuart Murdoch review – Belle and Sebastian and me

Life inspires art in the debut novel by the Belle and Sebastian songwriter, tracing a young man’s path to music

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The Guardian - UK

Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK

World Without End topped bestseller lists but was criticised for embracing nuclear power

The Guardian - AU

It’s 60 years since The Lucky Country was published. Have we moved on from the bronzed Aussie male stereotype?

Writer Donald Horne was an astute generaliser in a golden era of them. Can we still examine Australia with his boldness?

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on female artists: a force to be reckoned with

Editorial: Tracey Emin is right, women keep on creating into old age. Their work is finally getting the attention it deserves

Woman & Home

Eva Mendes wears the most joyous multicolored shirt dress - it's from the Parisian brand French women love

Kate Middleton and Sienna Miller are also big fans of Sezane

WhatToWatch

I'm a huge Jilly Cooper fan and Rivals is the best TV adaptation of a book ever — here's why

Rivals won my heart in the first five minutes — and I'm not easy to impress!

The Conversation

The poetic violence of Han Kang’s Nobel Prize-winning literature – what you should read, watch and do this week

I didn’t seek out The Vegetarian when I first read it. I was on a book buying ban and in the lucky position to be living with a fellow hoarder. As I perused our combined stacks, a slim volume by an author I hadn’t heard of caught my eye, and…

Evening Standard

OPINION - When I met Roald Dahl, he said antisemitic things — but the campaign to cancel him is wrong

Many years ago I was a theatre critic, and over the years I’ve seen and written about plays of all sorts, from the powerful and provocative to the bland and banal. But I’ve never experienced the strange, eerie, even disturbing emotions that occurred recently when hearing my own name repeated…

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