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The Postcard by Anne Berest review – an autofictional tale of family survival

The author sets out to discover what happened to her ancestors during the Holocaust in this gripping, poignant work

The Guardian - UK

Louise Minchin: from the breakfast sofa to Alcatraz’s shark-infested waters

The former ‘BBC Breakfast’ host set out to find the world’s most courageous female adventurers for her book, ‘Fearless’. In this extract, she finds herself in the slipstream with two daring young swimmers

The Independent UK

The EU’s seismic shift: inside the 6 October Guardian Weekly

How the Ukraine war changed Europe. Plus Naples city of culture

The Guardian - UK

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Monica by Daniel Clowes review – a thrilling kaleidoscopic journey

A woman sets out to uncover the truth about her mother’s disappearance in this genre-hopping celebration of visual storytelling

The Guardian - UK

Book review: African thinkers analyse some of the big issues of our time - race, belonging and identity

The subjects of race, identity and belonging are often fraught with contention and uneasiness. Who are you? Who belongs? Who is native, or indigenous to a place? These perennial questions arise around the world.

The Conversation

Banned any books lately?

Book banning is on the rise; Illinois has a law against it, but individuals get around the law with their own personal book bans.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ian McEwan criticises hiring of ‘sensitivity readers’ looking for offensive material in manuscripts

Booker-winning novelist describes the process of screening out things that might offend readers as ‘mass hysterias’ and ‘moral panics’ that ‘sweep through populations every now and then’

The Guardian - UK

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Paul Harding, Justin Torres are among National Book Award finalists

Paul Harding’s Maine-based historical novel “This Other Eden,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian “Chain-Gang All-Stars” and Justin Torres' multi-generational “Blackouts” are among the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards

The Independent UK

Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah among National Book Award finalists

Winners from 25 finalists across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature will be announced in November

The Guardian - US

‘Our language is real’: jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson’s new book is an education in Black communication

Historically Black Phrases breaks down sayings and metaphors created and popularized by the community, giving it due credit

The Guardian - US

Pinarayi releases M.K. Sanoo’s complete works

At a glittering function in Kochi, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan released a compilation of literary critic M.K. Sanoo's complete works. Mr. Sanoo expressed gratitude to those who had shown their love and appreciation. Mr. Vijayan praised Mr. Sanoo's unparalleled personality and contributions to society, noting the collective works are a…

The Hindu

Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks?

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

The Walrus

A murdered Argentinian writer’s comic finds a new audience – and far-right haters

Héctor Oesterheld and his family were murdered under the military dictatorship. As Netflix adapts his beloved El Eternauta, his literary legacy is dragged into the culture wars

The Guardian - US

Caine prize won by Woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene’s ‘visceral tale’

The Senegalese duo’s A Soul of Small Places draws on Diallo’s experiences of gender-based violence, set against a backdrop of African cosmology in which spirits and humans coexist

The Guardian - UK

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The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

JK Rowling, as Robert Galbraith, is back with a cult classic, while elsewhere past crimes make for gripping reads

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Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy review – masterly alternative life of Nora Barnacle

What if James Joyce and his great love had split up at the start? Morrissy’s reimagining is a stylistic tour de force that the man himself would have surely admired

The Guardian - UK

Nobel laureate urges Polish opposition to commit to progressive causes

Exclusive: Olga Tokarczuk’s comments come in rare political interview two weeks before potentially pivotal election

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Warning over unconscious bias against working-class pupils in English schools

Social mobility expert says mindset in many schools requires children to be ‘middle-class clones’ to succeed

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Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world

The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant

The Conversation

Where the Supreme Court stands on banning books

Efforts to ban books in public schools and public libraries reached an all-time high in 2022 and show few signs of abating for 2023, according to the American Library Association.

Chicago Sun-Times

In Kokandy’s ‘American Psycho,’ the star slays, but the songs are bloody awful

The ’80s-set musical’s characters start out loathsome and just stay that way.

The Independent UK

Book Review: Romance strikes in 'Maybe Once, Maybe Twice' with quirky lines and an epic soundtrack

On Maggie Vine’s 30th birthday, she makes a marriage pact with her handsome best friend

The Independent UK

Book Review: Jo Nesbø offers a fresh twist on a coming-of-age horror novel in ’The Night House'

Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, best known for his “Harry Hole” series of crime novels, is out with a slim horror novel that is more than what it seems

The Independent UK

Book Review: Poet recalls stormy life growing up Rastafari in Jamaica and her struggle to break free

Safiya Sinclair is a Jamaican-born poet who has written a memoir called “How to Say Babylon.”

The Guardian - UK

Celebrated Syrian author, poet and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa dies aged 59

Khalifa was one of Syria’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, though his six novels were banned in the country

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