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‘Modern death is clinical, antiseptic’: the festival that wants to revive the Irish wake

Artists, singers, writers and scholars gather in County Mayo as a ‘clarion call’ to protect the rite of passage they believe is under threat

The Guardian - UK

Rebus review – Richard Rankin is the most irresistible incarnation yet

The all-new Rebus is physical and forceful with a fag in hand and a willingness to crack skulls – but in a world full of shows about troubled, maverick cops, will he possibly be able to stand out?

The Guardian - UK

Sam Taylor: ‘Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read’

The US-based writer and translator on his new novel set in 1930s Vienna, his deep connection with the authors he has worked with and why he always returns to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

The Guardian - UK

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Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown

Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Claire Messud’s cultural highlights

The novelist on the continuing relevance of Ibsen, the joyful quilt art of Faith Ringgold and where to find British scotch eggs in New York

The Guardian - UK

‘She’s in the pantheon now’: Kristi Noem and the politicians who hit self-destruct

The dog-killing South Dakota governor’s VP hopes are in tatters. But she’s not the first politician to flame out with an own goal

The Guardian - US

The Darkness Has Not Overcome: limp pro-Trump piety for a second coming

Cliff Sims wrote Team of Vipers, an early Trump tell-all. His new book is nowhere near as compelling – even the bits he repeats

The Guardian - US

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Prince Archie 'loves' that his grandpa King Charles 'lives in a castle' - and is 'desperate to visit him'

Young Archie is said to be 'desperate' to visit his grandpa, King Charles

Woman & Home

BookTok is recommending 'explicit' and 'violent' reads to teens warn experts - here are 3 tips for keeping kids safe from mature content

Lots of kids are enjoying the book recommendations they get online, but many are being exposed to what users call 'spicy' reads

GoodToKnow

Who is John Rebus, the hero of Ian Rankin’s detective novels?

Over 29 books, turns out we’ve learned quite a lot

Evening Standard

Rumbles by Elsa Richardson review – gut reaction

A vivid cultural of digestion, from ancient Greece to All-Bran

The Guardian - UK

From Rebus to The Responder, it’s time to bury the defective detective

Whether it’s Poirot’s vanity or Nero Wolfe’s agoraphobia, detectives have always had their vices, writes Nick Hilton. But as Inspector Rebus returns to screens for the first time since 2007, should there be a reappraisal of the troubled detective trope?

The Independent UK

Best books about the Second World War to read this year

From memoirs and biographies to historical deep dives into the war’s most brutal battles, these are some of the best books about WWII

Evening Standard

Sabrina's enemies take center stage in The Wicked Trinity - a new one-shot which looks like Archie Comics' take on The Craft

The new T+ rated one-shot focuses on Sabrina's rivals in witchcraft

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Evening Standard

Theresa May mocks Liz Truss and Boris Johnson at parliamentary lunch

The former PM has had a humour upgrade

The Guardian - UK

Tom Davies obituary

Other lives: Fleet Street journalist and author of novels and travel books

Evening Standard

Long Island by Colm Tóibín review: A sequel that doesn't fly quite as high

The Seventies! The decade of flares, chevron moustaches and disco. Well forget all that. In Long Island, Colm Tóibín’s sequel to Fifties-set Brooklyn, it’s frosted glass doors, Vietnam protests on the tele and people suddenly trying to give up ciggies after years of carefree chain-smoking that indicate we have skipped…

Texas Observer

‘The Chicano Time Traveler’

Daniel Chacón's short story collection shows how fiction and superstition often mix with reality in the lives of many Chicanos.

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The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Hunted by Abir Mukherjee; Bonehead by Mo Hayder; When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips; The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer

The Guardian - UK

Hari Kunzru: ‘I am just as enchanted by The Great Gatsby now as when I first read it as an A-level student’

The British novelist on rereading the classics, his teenage love of outsiders, and discovering the brilliance of Anita Brookner

The Independent UK

Bridgerton season 3: How did Colin and Penelope leave things?

It’s been two years since TV’s favourite debutantes graced screens

The Guardian - UK

Author Coco Mellors: ‘I needed from the book something that I needed in my life – a sense of hope’

Blue Sisters, the novelist’s follow-up to her debut Cleopatra and Frankenstein, focuses on death and addiction. She explains how she found her way to a more optimistic story

The Independent UK

PEN America, facing criticism over its response to the Mideast war, gathers for annual gala

PEN America gathered Thursday night for its annual gala, a high-profile event raised even higher because some wondered if it would be held at all

The Independent UK

Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée Maya Henry reveals she got an abortion

Maya Henry was in an on-and-off again relationship with Liam Payne from 2019 to 2022

The Guardian - UK

Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds

Judges describe second novel set between south-east London and Ghana as ‘symphonic’ and ‘viscerally moving’

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