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Commentary: I’ve seen how reading banned books can enrich kids’ education

My kids and I began reading banned books together when they were just learning sight words. Snuggled with my kids on the couch, I’d read aloud from a slim paperback volume of the “Captain Underpants” series. My son, 6, and my daughter, 4, followed along by looking at the images.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: Tell-all Trumpists — you should have come clean long ago

The predictable pile-on has begun.

Los Angeles Times

Indian crime fiction writer honoured at Agatha Christie Fest

Crime fiction author Ruby Gupta, who is the Head of English Department at Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, has brought laurels by being honoured as the International Writer-in-Residence at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay in Britain.

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Retired Lanarkshire police officer's book on force history

George Barnsley's research for the area's police historical society has now been published - and includes a campaign to recognise two murdered officers.

Daily Record

Daily Quiz | On International Translation Day

September 30 is celebrated as International Translation Day to celebrate the work of translators and their role in aiding interpersonal communication. Here is a quiz on the world of translation

The Hindu

Trump staffer stuffed photos of Hunter Biden in White House air conditioner, Haberman book reveals

New excerpts claim both ‘rank-and-file’ and senior Trump staffers were uncooperative with their successors during the transition to Biden’s administration

The Independent UK

Independent bookshop specialising in women's words opens in Durham after starting from a van

Collected Books opened on Durham's Riverwalk in September

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Tony Mitton obituary

Other lives: Prolific children’s poet and author who wrote the prize-winning verse narrative Wayland

The Guardian - UK

'The secretary's book club': 1008 pages of grad bonding

The 2022 graduates from the Department of Home Affairs were encouraged to participate in a regular discussion on a Henry Kissinger book, freedom of information documents reveal.

The Canberra Times

Joe Swash and Stacey Solomon set to face off as books are due for release at same time

Married couple Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash are set to go head to head this Christmas as their books are out around the same time, which Joe forget to tell his wife

Daily Mirror

In defense of reading differently

The process of reading is neurologically complex — hence, there's no "wrong" way to read, Matthew Rubery says

Salon

Boys book club grows fans

The members gather Saturdays on Zoom to discuss their weekends and dive into the latest books, each one spotlighting Black male characters. A partnership with a barber shop may bring in new members, too.

Chicago Sun-Times

Joyce’s Women review – Edna O’Brien offers a fresh view on her literary hero

O’Brien’s new play about her literary hero, imagining James Joyce through the eyes of the women in his life, is the hot ticket in Dublin

The Guardian - UK

A big cow, self-publishing, and Iain Banks: JD Kirk on 10 things that changed his life

BEST-SELLING crime author JD Kirk, whose real name is Barry Hutchison, speaks to The Sunday National about the ten things which have changed his…

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The Handmaid’s Tale: Dystopian future in which women are entirely subjugated

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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Gerry Hassan's new book offers up a rich array of options for our way ahead

MOUNT Florida Books is one of those small, still-forming independent book shops, run by Katia Wengraf, that just makes you feel instantly at home.

The Independent UK

Hilary Mantel: Celebrated author of Wolf Hall trilogy

Novelist was the first British writer – and the first woman – to win the Booker Prize twice

The Independent UK

Donald Trump claims publishing conspiracy stopping authors from writing ‘really good book about me’

New book on Trump White House contains embarassing details

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The Guardian - UK

‘Make sure failure is survivable’: PM’s book reveals pointer to Trussonomics

Britannia Unchained, co-written with Kwasi Kwarteng, highlights the influence of free market thinktank IEA on government

The Guardian - UK

Mariana Enríquez: ‘I don’t want to be complicit in any kind of silence’

The award-winning Argentinian author on how the language of horror fiction merges with her country’s history, what Stephen King taught her about writing and using ‘testers’ for her male sex scenes

Salon

Book bans don't understand how kids read

"Books don't brainwash"

Daily Mirror

How amateur sleuth found human remains in hunt for Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett

Author Russell Edwards, researching Keith Bennett’s murder 58 years ago, found a skull close to where the other Moors murders victims were buried - and it could be the story's final chapter

The Guardian - UK

Little Fires Everywhere author Celeste Ng: ‘Elena and Mia constantly butt heads with each other inside me’

The writer of the novel that inspired the hit TV series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington talks about how her new book turned dystopian after Trump came to power

The Guardian - US

What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem

Bill Keller, once editor of the New York Times, now with the Marshall Project, shows how the US came to imprison so many of its citizens, disproportionately Black and brown, and how such a gross injustice might yet be addressed

The Guardian - US

‘It’s not an unsolvable case’: has the Zodiac killer finally been found?

Author Jarett Kobek never intended to make the case the focus of his book but he may have solved the 50-year-old mystery

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