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Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae review – snapshots of a stolen youth

The American poet’s visceral account of being snatched as a child by his white supremacist grandparents demonstrates the shaky and slippery nature of memory

The Guardian - UK

Nick Frost: ‘If you spend four hours in the kitchen on your own, it’s never really frowned upon’

The actor and writer on hotel breakfasts that trigger his ADHD, and why cooking helps him cope with his troubled past and successful present

The Guardian - UK

Illuminating: an illustrated guide to some of the world’s most remote lighthouses

José Luis Gonzáles Macías became fascinated by the buildings when researching a design project and has published an ‘atlas’ of the most striking examples

The Guardian - UK

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‘It’s lonely being a Jewish critic of Israel’ – Nathan Thrall on his book about a Palestinian father’s tragedy

As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, the US author says his book tour is fraught with the possibility of misunderstanding

The Guardian - UK

‘The wolf at my throat’: Observer writer Christopher Wordsworth’s diaries reveal troubled life

The critic never wrote the ‘Great Novel’. But his son, Saul, found clues to a crime in 60,000 words he left behind

The Guardian - UK

A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel review – smart reflections on Wolf Hall, religion… and RoboCop

This collection of essays and journalism is a poignant reminder of the novelist’s expansive mind, and of what more she might have achieved

The Guardian - UK

The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman review – the constant philanderer

Three years after le Carré’s death, his official biographer reveals the adultery that was off limits during his lifetime. Does it further our appreciation of his work?

The Guardian - UK

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Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus: ‘Anti-female bias is ingrained in our culture – it needs to be exposed’

Nigella Lawson is a superfan and Brie Larson was desperate to adapt her book, ‘Lessons in Chemistry’. Bonnie Garmus tells Katie Rosseinsky about how sexism inspired her hit debut, and becoming a bestseller in her sixties

The Independent UK

Teju Cole: ‘Being avant garde isn’t about being unreadable’

The prize-winning novelist and essayist on why he set his new book just before the pandemic, embracing the possibility of failure – and being ambushed by Hemingway

The Guardian - UK

Longboats is the new short novel from one of Scotland's most prolific dramatists

DAVID Greig – playwright, theatre director and artistic director of Edinburgh’s great repertory theatre the Royal Lyceum – is one of the…

The National (Scotland)

Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale

A crowdfunding drive led by TV presenter Christa Ackroyd aims to make the first Bradford home of the literary siblings a tourist destination and source of inspiration

The Guardian - UK

Britney Spears will not read her own audiobook after ‘heart-wrenching’ time ‘reliving’ experiences

Spears will read the book’s introduction before actor Michelle Williams takes over

The Independent UK

On my radar: Slavoj Žižek’s cultural highlights

The Slovenian cultural theorist on enjoying books that contradict him, Boots Riley’s hilarious TV series, and his ‘terrifying’ taste in food

The Guardian - UK

Vivek Shanbhag and the unbearable lightness of being

It is an old joke in Kerala that the finest writer in Malayalam is Marquez. While many of us read Marquez in English translation (by Gregory Rabassa or Edith Grossman), thousands in Kerala read One Hundred Years of Solitude in Malayalam, as translated by Dr. S. Velayudhan (‘Ekanthathayude Nooru Varshangal’) in 1984.

The Hindu

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Salon

Expert alarmed as Texas book bans grow

“When white supremacy wins these fights, all of our children lose,” professor warns

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A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel review – B-sides and rarities

A posthumous collection of the Booker-winner’s nonfiction shows her lesser-known works to be the equal of her hits

Reason

Recalling "Learning in Wartime" in Wartime

For many, this past weekend's terrorist attacks on people in Israel and the resulting war between Israel and Hamas raises profound questions about the role of the academy in wartime.

The Guardian - UK

Maurice Leitch obituary

Radio drama producer and writer whose novel Poor Lazarus won the Guardian fiction prize in 1969

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Evening Standard

Live by Robert Elms review: Good books about live music are rare — this one’s a gem

There are far too many books about music, even though I’ve written a fair few myself. The market is starting to feel saturated; graze the music section on your local Waterstones and you’ll find endless biographies of bass players in long-forgotten prog rock groups, a multitude of cut-and-paste hagiographies and…

The Independent UK

‘I stand with Britney’: Michelle Williams to narrate audio edition of Britney Spears memoir

Spears will narrate the introduction of ‘The Woman in Me’, releasing the same day as the print version

The Guardian - UK

Batley library book-takers urged to return and help save building

Appeal follows emptying of shelves in apparent misunderstanding at ‘fill a bag with books for £1’ event

The Independent UK

The problems with Graham Linehan’s memoir Tough Crowd

The ‘Father Ted’ writer who more recently uses his platform to share controversial views on the transgender community has released a memoir describing how his life was ‘smashed to smithereens’. It’s a strange, sad read, writes Louis Chilton – one that crumbles under the slightest scrutiny

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: When should we talk to children about the very worst things?

This week’s events make me wonder how long I can keep stalling. Plus, Keir Starmer’s Jason Bourne moment

The Guardian - UK

Authors join call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investments

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele; A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand; Lamb by Matt Hill; My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

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