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Pulitzer Prize: Mexican Cristina Rivera Garza and Dominican-American Medar de la Cruz among winners

The Mexican author won the Memoir/Autobiography category while de la Cruz did the same for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

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Kristi Noem rejects ‘liberal plant’ claim on dog-killing tale: ‘Buck stops with me’

Sympathetic interviewer suggests rogue editor was responsible for career-torpedoing story in new book

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UK audiobook downloads up 17% last year, Publishers Association data shows

Audiobooks are fast becoming ‘a major route to market for consumers of books’, the trade body says

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Sydney council bans same-sex parenting books from libraries for ‘safety of our children’

Local MP is concerned move breaches Anti-Discrimination Act while NSW arts minister accuses council of ‘censorship’

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Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall review – the time traveller’s life

The British poet’s second collection is an exacting examination of the past, the present and an uncertain future

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The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins

This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life

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All hail the power of concrete architecture

‘Concrete Architecture’ surveys more than a century’s worth of the world’s most influential buildings using the material, from brutalist memorials to sculptural apartment blocks

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Noem cries "fake news" over interview

It's not clear what exactly the Republican governor thought would happen after she wrote about shooting her dog

Salon

This literary sci-fi odyssey should be Netflix’s next big-budget adaptation

Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars Trilogy is the perfect source material for the next great sci-fi show.

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‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’: Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot

That They May Face the Rising Sun, about a small rural community in Ireland, has little obvious drama. The director explains how that is exactly what’s winning it awards

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‘Atlas of Never Built Architecture’ delves into unrealised architectural ambition

Unrealised grand plans are chronicled in ‘Atlas of Never Built Architecture’, Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin’s monumental new Phaidon monograph, which collates 300 architectural projects lost to the mists of time

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Confronting the audience and breaking the fourth wall: why Black drama is getting meta

On stage and screen, self-referential dramas such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequality

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Sport and the climate emergency: collating injustice with an action plan

‘I’m very alarmed by everybody’s lack of alarm, that’s the scariest thing for me,’ says Warming up author Madeleine Orr

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Nordic kids are the happiest in the world - Expert reveals top 3 tips for raising kids the Danish way

Nordic parenting is vastly different from most western approaches

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Sufferance by Charles Palliser review – a well-crafted, slow-burning novel

The Quincunx author’s sixth book, the story of a family in crisis under an tyrannical regime, is exquisitely plotted and satisfying

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Read me a story: why reading out loud is a joy for adults as well as kids

Sarah Manavis and her partner have a guilty secret. What they love to do most of all in private is… read out loud to each other. And, as she’s discovered, it has many surprising benefits

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Glass Houses; The Paris Trilogy; How to Build Impossible Things – reviews

Love, class and Welsh nationalism fuel a menacing literary romance; Colombe Schneck’s meditations on womanhood and teenage pregnancy are electrifying; and an elite craftsman is full of great advice

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The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

A new era at the RSC opens with a potent staging by Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi of his classic everyman tale and a clever take on Shakespeare’s comedy that cuts through the verbiage – with help from a Bridgerton stalwart

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UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history

The Guardian - US

Minority Rule review: rich history of America’s undemocratic democracy

From an absurd Senate where California and Wyoming are equal, to Republican voter suppression, Ari Berman covers it all

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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud review – an epic novel of life and death in 1950s Trinidad

Four women tell of the rise and fall of a notorious real-life mobster in this evocative second novel from the Costa prize winner

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The big picture: author Paul Auster in his element

The celebrated writer, who died last week, is captured by Arnold Newman in his study in 1993 with his trusty Olympia manual typewriter

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Chicken or egg? One zoologist’s attempt to solve the conundrum of which came first

The writer of a new book about life on Earth seen through the prism of the egg says the age-old paradox actually leads us back a billion years – to the bottom of the ocean

The Guardian - AU

AC Grayling: ‘Who would I like to fight? Boris Johnson. And I’d win’

Asked 10 random questions, the philosopher and author shares the strangest thing he’s done for love, his famous hair and his fears for the future of the moon

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‘My favourite book of the year so far’: the best Australian books out in May

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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