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What ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ can tell us about JD Vance and his right-wing beliefs

America’s potential future vice president topped bestseller lists with his 2016 memoir, a tale of multi-generational, cyclical poverty in Appalachia. Nick Hilton looks back on what the politician argued in the book, from his criticisms of welfare to his belief that the working classes ‘spend our way into the poorhouse’

The Independent UK

Evan Wright death: Generation Kill author dies by suicide, aged 59

Writer was best known for ‘Generation Kill’ in which he worked as an embedded reporter in the US marines during the invasion of Iraq

The Independent UK

Waterstones apologises after ‘terrifying’ antisemitic book found in shop

Shop in Dublin has removed ’The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ after a customer complaint

The Independent UK

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Hillbilly Elegy: The contentious film based on the life of Trump’s running mate JD Vance is on Netflix now

Movie divided critics and viewers with its portrayal of poverty

The Independent UK

OPINION - Sobering read: the Ghislaine Maxwell trial by a child abuse victim

When a celebrity is convicted of a crime, it ignites a media circus. More often than not, the narrative is of a fallen star; someone with a great life who has thrown it all away and is now brought to book because of their own terrible behaviour. In the telling…

Evening Standard

Billie Eilish latest star to read CBeebies bedtime story

Oscar-winning singer chooses book by Oliver Jeffers that highlights importance of protecting nature

The Guardian - UK

The Wendy Award by Walter Scott review – the voice of a bewildered generation

The fourth in this brilliant and painfully funny series finds our self-destructive millennial heroine nominated for an art award – and grappling with gen z sensibilities

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I couldn’t put a boring book down. Now I take pleasure in saying enough is enough

Last year, I finally realised that my habit of seeing everything through to the end was just a colossal waste of time, says Callum Bains

The Guardian - UK

The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period

In this erudite book with broad appeal, the renowned critic moves deftly from insightful analysis of pivotal artists and songs into the wider social history of the era that changed culture

The Guardian - UK

Cross by Austin Duffy review – an IRA ceasefire with bloody strings attached

The Dublin-based author’s fourth novel, set in a fictional border town during the 1994 ceasefire, feels as uncertain and jittery as the fragile peace

The Guardian - UK

The Orange Room by Rosie Price review – quietly devastating portrait of coercive control

An art student’s self-worth is undermined by her boyfriend in the author’s second novel, a subtle tale of a toxic relationship

The Guardian - UK

Online manipulation expert Renée DiResta: ‘Conspiracy theories shape our politics in extremely mainstream ways’

The former research manager of Stanford Internet Observatory talks about her new book exploring propaganda in the digital age – and how she came to be known as ‘CIA Renée’…

The Guardian - UK

Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history

Despite her activism during the golden age of cinema, Mary C McCall Jr was all but forgotten. Now a new book is about to set the record straight

The Guardian - UK

Why The Man with 100 Kids isn’t actually as unusual as you think

As a new Netflix series shocks the world, one author recounts her own experience with super sperm donors and off-the-grid insemination

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Irvine Welsh on Trainspotting, Labour and arguing on Twitter

‘I THINK we’re all vengeful,” says Irvine Welsh as we meet in a café in Edinburgh’s Canongate. Fuelled up on caffeine, he is ready to…

The Guardian - UK

C Pam Zhang: ‘I was aware of the drift towards fascism in Europe’

The Chinese-born, US-based author, whose debut was longlisted for the 2020 Booker, on pursuing pleasure in a volatile world, her taste for chip butties and the joys of being a naive reader

The Guardian - UK

Smartphones are bad for kids – we don’t need to call on scientific data to know it

Jonathan Haidt’s claims about the effects of devices on children’s wellbeing have been criticised for lacking proof, but they tell us what we need to know

The Independent UK

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died

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The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Cressida Cowell’s cultural highlights

The How To Train Your Dragon author on the most beautiful place on Earth, an epic nature-themed fantasy and the tantalising prospect of a new Jilly Cooper TV adaptation

The Guardian - UK

‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut

His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama

The Guardian - UK

No Small Thing by Orlaine McDonald review – a true-to-life tale

This refreshingly honest debut explores a south London family shaped by the pain of emotional neglect

The Independent UK

Are authors now writing for TV producers rather than readers?

The new novel from Taffy Brodesser-Akner has all the makings of a great TV show, so it’s no wonder an adaptation is already in the works. Is the entertainment industry’s enthusiasm for snapping up novels having an impact on writers, asks Katie Rosseinsky

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: redirecting history on Palestine, meeting Cindy Sherman, and how to listen

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

The Conversation

Re-reading Alice Munro in the light of the secrets she kept and pain she caused

This week, Canadians heard about the enormity of Andrea Skinner’s suffering, following sexual abuse by her stepfather, and her mother Alice Munro’s decision to stay with and protect him.

The Guardian - UK

Goldsmiths’ redundancy plan shows a lack of commitment to Black British literature

Letters: A group of academics express their concerns that Prof Deirdre Osborne, the co-founder of the MA Black British literature course at Goldsmiths, is facing the threat of redundancy

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