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'American Fiction' wins People's Choice award at Toronto Film Festival

Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” a biting satire starring Jeffery Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched bellwether in the Oscar race

The Independent UK

Misophonia: what’s behind the phenomenon that makes certain sounds unbearable?

Stress and anxiety triggered by sounds from clocks to pigeons to popcorn affects one in five people in the UK. A new book from Dr Jane Gregory, who experiences misophonia, asks why

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Invisible Lines; The Owl and the Nightingale; They Fell Like Stars from the Sky – reviews

A wide-ranging look at the world’s borders, a witty update on a medieval poem, and subtly political Palestinian short stories

The Guardian - UK

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Rouge by Mona Awad review – like drowning in poison

A woman is recruited into a demonic beauty cult in this intricate, sometimes funny novel, but the protagonist’s contemptuous voice becomes tiresome

The Guardian - UK

Readers reply: are people in the UK more or less honest now than they were 50 years ago?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Guardian - UK

Weirdo by Sara Pascoe review – astute observational comedy

An oddball woman gets a second stab at love in this entertaining if meandering debut novel shot through with subversive ideas about romance and lust

The Guardian - UK

‘Wouldn’t it make life easier?’: the growing campaign for pockets on women’s clothes

Centuries after men began carrying items in their clothes, women are still encumbered with bags. Now activists are changing that

The Guardian - UK

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The Psychosis of Whiteness by Kehinde Andrews review – provocative but problematic

This insightful journey through the realms of racial oppression is marred by a careless disrespect for black female scholars

The Guardian - UK

‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review

Pip becomes Pipli in Tanika Gupta’s colonial Indian take on Dickens; Caroline Quentin and daughter are a dream team in April De Angelis’s Emma Hamilton romp; and Polly Stenham’s 2007 debut hits home in a devastating revival

The Guardian - UK

Enter the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2024

The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is now opened for submissions

The Guardian - UK

In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf: walking the west Cornwall coast to the Badger pub

Starting in arty St Ives, this route takes in a hill the writer ‘staggered up’ in 1909, the lighthouse that inspired her novel, and finishes in a pub she loved

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: when Nick Waplington became a wedding photographer

After documenting the colourful family life of his grandfather’s neighbour Janet in his first book, Waplington ended up capturing her big day

The Guardian - UK

Maureen Freely: ‘Turkey is a place where writers matter’

The author and academic on her exploration of a ‘dark chapter’ in Turkish history, how working as a translator changed her view of the world, and her long friendship with novelist Orhan Pamuk

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Welsh mansion that inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge on the verge of collapse

Piercefield House, a Grade II-listed mansion that may have been the prototype for Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, is now ‘seriously distressed’

The Times of India

Elon Musk almost got named after a French city, reveals book

Elon Musk was almost named after a beautiful French city and the reason was he was conceived there. 52-year-old, Elon Reeve Musk's connection to a French city has been revealed in the new book written by American author, Walter Isaacson.

The Guardian - UK

‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones

Long before Harry Potter went to Hogwarts, Diana Wynne Jones wrote about a school for witches. Fifty years after the author of Howl’s Moving Castle published her first novel for children, Rundell celebrates the writer who inspired her own fantasy debut

The Guardian - UK

North Woods by Daniel Mason review – an epic of American lives

This dazzling fragmentary history of a small patch of woodland in New England travels to the limits of what the novel can do

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The Independent UK

Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed

Newly discovered correspondence in the Vatican archives suggests that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland

The Guardian - UK

In the tracks of the Orient Express: my train ride from London to Istanbul

The fabled railway service returns in 2025. But you don’t need to wait until then, or pay the eyewatering fares, to ride this classic route

The Guardian - AU

‘Most women I know don’t want to have sex like men’: Chanel Contos on consent, porn and ‘out-of-fashion’ feminists

Two years ago Contos prompted a national reckoning on sexual consent. Now the 25-year-old is filling venues as she reintroduces radical feminism to gen Z

Reason

More on Controversial Books at Princeton

A member of Congress weighs in, and the university president speaks out

Evening Standard

‘Demon Mode’, near-death and cities on Mars - the strangest revelations from Elon Musk’s biography

Written with unprecedented access, Walter Isaacson’s book is making waves with a host of bombshells — here are some of the big ones...

The Independent UK

First collection of William Shakespeare’s plays on show to toast key anniversary

The 400-year-old collection includes the first publication of Macbeth

The Conversation

Anxiety can often be a drag on creativity, upending the trope of the tortured artist

In the U.S., anxiety disorders affect about one-third of the population. So it’s no surprise that a good number of artists and writers also suffer from anxiety and depression.

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