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5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin and Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati.

The Independent UK

International Women’s Day 2023: women defy protest ban with march in Pakistan – as it happened

Latest updates from the UK and across the globe as 2,000 women protest in Lahore and Ireland announces gender equality referendum

The Guardian - UK

New Investigation Confirms '1,001 Nights' Novel was Actually '300 Nights'

Dar Al Mada Publishing released a new study on the “One Thousand and One Nights” novel by Dr. Mohsen Mahdi. According to the publishing house, the story of the book does not actually span over 1,001 nights, and the transcribers were behind stretching the original story. Researcher Mohsen Mahdi started…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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The Three Musketeers review – stripped-back stab at classic tries for fresh approach

Low-budget take on the evergreen tale already feels overshadowed by the grand French retelling due next door

The Guardian - UK

Norena Shopland: The woman who has dedicated her life to uncovering Wales' LGBTQ+ history

Norena Shopland is a leading historian specialising in LGBTQ+ history, but she said women were often forgotten in texts on the past

Wales Online

International Women's Day: Activist celebrates some of Ireland's most inspiring women

Today is international women’s day (IWD), when the world celebrates female achievement

Irish Mirror

FBI tested by attacks, politically explosive investigations

The FBI finds itself in a challenging moment as it conducts simultaneous investigations involving classified documents held by former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden

The Independent UK

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Boys view being asked to read as a ‘punishment’, say one in three teachers

Social media 'having negative effect' on students’ willingness to read for pleasure

Wales Online

One in three teachers say boys consider being asked to read as a ‘punishment’

Majority of secondary school teachers report an increase in ‘reluctant readers’ in the past three years, a poll has found.

The Independent UK

Filipino desserts get a bright remix

Brooklyn baker Abi Balingit of The Dusky Kitchen is a believer in "putting sprinkles on everything"

Salon

Louise Minchin says Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist deals with hard truths

The former BBC Breakfast presenter said she feels there is still a ‘huge appetite’ for reading and she is encouraged that her daughter is doing so.

The Independent UK

Debut novel inspired by London’s club scene in running for prestigious prize

A debut novel set in London’s underground reggae scene in the 1970s is one of 16 books longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Evening Standard

Maggie O’Farrell and NoViolet Bulawayo make Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Nine debut novels are among the 16 books up for the 2023 award, alongside novels by Natalie Haynes, Sophie Mackintosh and Barbara Kingsolver

The Guardian - UK

20 Feminist Books About Women's Rights to Add to Your Reading List Right Now

The only reading list you'll need this International Women's Day

Marie Claire

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The Independent UK

Author Joanne Harris calls for more investment in libraries and the arts

She spoke out after receiving an OBE for services to literature from the Prince of Wales.

Newsroom.co.nz

Ockhams honour the 'Māori cannibalism novel'

A rare victory for populism has been declared on the shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand national book awards.

The Times of India

Priyanka Sinha Jha and Juhi Chaturvedi share stories from Bollywood

In a candid session at the Times LitFest-Delhi, author-journalist Priyanka Sinha Jha and screenwriter Juhi Chaturvedi were seen in a conversation with Bollywood biographer, author and journalist Yasser Usman. During their discussion, the two shared a bunch of interesting stories from Bollywood with Usman and the audience, their experiences in…

The Conversation

From Roald Dahl to Goosebumps, revisions to children's classics are really about copyright – a legal expert explains

The backlash to Puffin Books’ decision to update Roald Dahl’s children’s books has been swift and largely derisive. The publisher has been accused of “absurd censorship”, “corporate safetyism” and “cultural vandalism.”

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Evening Standard

Hundreds of cultural treasures seized from Ethiopia found in London

Plundered gems located in capital as debate goes on over their return

Evening Standard

Roxane Gay: ‘gender fascism is on the rise’

Ahead of her first UK tour, the iconic author of Bad Feminist tells Jason Okundaye about the fight for equality, life after weight-loss surgery and the new book she’s writing with Channing Tatum

The Conversation

Witch lit: how modern writers are reinventing the witch

From the fairy tales read to us as children to the costumes every Halloween, the figure of the witch has been with most of us for our entire lives. Unkempt and warty, the witch of our childhood was generally a repulsive creature flying on a broomstick beside her toad or…

The Independent UK

Sarah Ferguson ‘has not received invite’ to King Charles’ coronation

‘The invitations haven’t gone out yet. Have they?’ said Duchess of York

The Conversation

Sex, intimacy and black middle-class Christianity in South Africa - a difficult history

A new book, Convening Black Intimacy, explores the history of Christianity, gender and precolonial marriage and sex traditions in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. To conduct her study, historian Natasha Erlank drew on court records of cases of seduction, church records, anthropological texts, and many sources…

The Independent UK

Sarah Ferguson says she has not received invite to King’s coronation

‘The invitations haven’t gone out yet. Have they?’ said Duchess of York

Reason

Brickbat: Reading Is Fundamental

In Georgia, the Forsyth County school system has agreed to pay the legal fees of a group of mothers who sued to overturn a system policy that banned them from reading books from school libraries at school board meetings. The settlement came after a federal court issued an injunction against…

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