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Racing’s new leaders will need to attack poisonous gaming betting

The British Horseracing Authority is currently trying to find both a new chair and new chief executive

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Edna O’Brien was an Irish great — and a Londoner

The opening sentence of Girl, Edna O’Brien’s last novel is, I think, unforgettable: “I was a girl once, but not any more...” And from there O’Brien, who died on Saturday, takes the reader into the unimaginable horror of the abduction and rape of the Chibok schoolgirls by the Islamist group,…

Evening Standard

‘A beacon of brazenness and defiance’: Edna O’Brien remembered by Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and more

The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish novelists pay tribute to a titanic figure who liberated their country’s fiction

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Bestselling author takes on grief after brother died ‘in seconds’ after family lunch

Amanda Prowse’s latest book will be called ‘Swimming to Lundy’

The Independent UK

Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

The Guardian - UK

Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing

Inspired by an unidentified boy found dead in the Thames, the first – and only – collection by the late poet is an imaginative meditation on death and those who disappear

The Guardian - UK

Wife by Charlotte Mendelson review – bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown

A new novel from the author of The Exhibitionist is a family saga of rare insight, with another magnificently grotesque villain at its heart

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Nell Mescal interview: ‘Rumours about my brother make my skin crawl’

The Irish singer-songwriter has just released her debut EP and supported Shania Twain at Hyde Park. She speaks to Roisin O’Connor about her lonely first year in London, dropping out of school, and dealing with jealousy and scrutiny over her famous older brother, Paul

The Independent UK

Groundbreaking Irish Writer Edna O'Brien Dead At 93

Tributes poured in on Sunday for Edna O'Brien, the radical Irish writer whose groundbreaking first novel "The Country Girls" was burned and banned in her native country, after her death at 93.

International Business Times

Princess Kate Is the Reason Why Prince William and King Charles Are "Much Closer," Upcoming Biography Reveals

The Princess of Wales has "smoothed the way for William and his father to have a better relationship."

Marie Claire

Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century

The Guardian - UK

What Vance’s nomination speech tells us about his vision of the American dream and the country’s future

As a social scientist who has attended to JD Vance’s writing as part of my research, I was surprised when Trump selected him as his running mate. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, is one of the case studies in my ongoing research study on globalization at the intersection of various cross-border…

The Conversation

No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar review – love and identity on the 1960s music scene

A glorious debut about a Senegalese singer’s rise to stardom and the woman he meets in New York

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James Baldwin taught us that identities can help us to locate ourselves. But they trap us too

The writer, who would have turned 100 this week, spoke to, and from, America’s moral conscience

The Guardian - UK

Philospher Peter Godfrey-Smith: ‘To some extent, our planet would be better off without humanity’

With the bestselling Other Minds, the philosopher dramatically changed our view of octopuses. Now, concluding his trilogy about the evolution of intelligence, he shows how animal life has shaped the planet itself

The Independent UK

There’s Nothing Wrong With Her describes the unique hell of long Covid

After writing a bestselling mystery novel, Kate Weinberg found herself in a plotless place with no neat, obvious ending: suffering the torturous, confusing ordeal of long Covid. Now she’s turned the experience into a funny, philosophical novel – one that, as Jessie Thompson knows from experience, perfectly captures the surreal…

The National (Scotland)

‘The people’s coal’: New book explores if justice was served for Scotland’s miners

IN 2022, the Miners’ Strike (Pardons) Act came into force in Scotland.

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Sweet Tooth creator Jeff Lemire's new Justice Society of America ongoing series will focus on both the JSA and Infinity, Inc.

The new comic is drawn by Diego Olortegui

The Guardian - UK

Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’

Ahead of new books by both, the two English novelists discuss their friendship, the baggage that comes with being labelled ‘northern writers’ and why the Krankies’ memoir is a must-read

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Evie Wyld’s cultural highlights

The author on a musical tribute to Andy Warhol, the book that made her swear out loud, and an exciting new restaurant in Peckham

GamesRadar

Absolute Green Lantern is writer Al Ewing's first series for DC and will be a "complete reimagining" of the concept, starring multiple Lanterns

Jahnoy Lindsay will draw the new series

Inverse

Can We Fix Climate Change If People Don’t Believe In It? Science History Offers Hope

Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change.

The Guardian - UK

Notes on a scandal: Monica Heisey on why Ursula Parrott’s account of divorce is still alarmingly relatable

Nearly a century after it was first published, Ex‑Wife remains relevant and scathing, writes the Really Good, Actually author

The Guardian - UK

Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking by Han Smith review – a secret history

This ambitious debut uncovers a town’s dark past, in a story of teenage dissidence that is alert to the deceptions of propaganda

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