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Pastor Who Wrote Marriage Advice Book Arrested For Allegedly Having Multiple Wives

Florida pastor Leslie Williams, known for his relationship advice, faces bigamy charges, contradicting his teachings on marital commitment and sparking widespread attention.

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Will George RR Martin Release The Winds of Winter in 2026? Fans Warned by Grim Market Odds

Real‑money traders on US platform Kalshi now imply just an 11% chance that George RR Martin will announce a release date for The Winds of Winter by the end of 2026.

International Business Times UK

Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’

At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female writers like Helen Garner

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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters

The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by trauma

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Crime fiction meets real-world fraud as authors help to raise awareness of scams

Three authors have teamed up with the Take Five to Stop Fraud campaign to create a trilogy of short stories launching for Take Five Week 2026.

Evening Standard

I Just Found Out Matt Damon's Character's Name In The Martian Was Inspired By Something Red Sox Fans Will Love

It’s kismet that Damon played this role.

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Why Queen Elizabeth "Trained Feelings Out of Herself," Leaving Her Inept at "Showing Affection," According to One Former Politician

"Awkward issues were left in abeyance until it was too late."

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One Royal "Cried Nonstop" When Visiting Queen Elizabeth "Unannounced," According to Royal Biographer

"They cried three times in a half hour while waiting to see you."

Marie Claire

Project Hail Mary’s Andy Weir Was Asked About How Handsome Ryan Gosling Is, And His Response Cracked Me Up

This is the only answer, really.

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‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’

The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains why

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Newly released letters reveal JD Salinger’s wariness over ‘second-rate reviewers’

Exclusive: Author asked to remove reference to his ‘Jewish-Irishness’ from book jacket of The Catcher in the Rye

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I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven review – gross, gruesome and sometimes sweet road trip with the devil

Christopher Brett Bailey reads his surreal novella and freewheels his way through extreme vice, erotic tension and dulled indifference

The Guardian - UK

Queen Elizabeth II "Never Understood" One Royal Family Member's "Pampered Lifestyle," Says Royal Author

She reportedly "found it rather mystifying."

Marie Claire

40 Years Later, The Sci-Fi Novel Octavia Butler Disowned Is Coming Back to Print

The 'Parable of the Sower' author has never been more popular — so much so, that a book she disowned is being reprinted.

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Daniel Farke: the romantic turned pragmatist bringing joy back to Leeds

The German has twice come close to the sack but has taken Leeds close to safety and on Sunday against Chelsea they play a first FA Cup semi-final since 1987

Woman & Home

Sophie Raworth's tomato red ME+EM dress is the pop of colour your summer wardrobe needs

She wore it to the launch of her book 'Running On Air', just ahead of the London Marathon

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: Siri Hustvedt looks into death’s abyss, Melissa Lucashenko on ‘white man’s fantasy’, and why we need the tooth fairy

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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Haruki Murakami to publish first novel to feature woman as lead character

The Tale of Kaho, out in July, will be 16th novel by Japanese author who has faced criticism for portrayal of women

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Katherine El-Salahi

Other lives: Activist and publisher specialising in literary and academic works of the global south

Tom’s Guide

Blurb Photo Book review

The Blurb photo book service is hard to recommend because of print imperfections and clunky software.

International Business Times UK

The Winds of Winter Delayed: Is George R.R. Martin Still Writing TWOW In 2026?

George R.R. Martin's long‑delayed novel The Winds of Winter remains unfinished with no release date, as fears grow that the book could repeat structural mistakes highlighted by Brandon Sanderson.

Cinemablend

J.K. Rowling Admits Her Son Was Not A Happy Camper After Finishing One Harry Potter Book

I was also not happy when I finished it.

Inverse

5 Years Ago, The Worst Lovecraftian Horror Movie Hid An Important Lesson

Marketed as 'H.P. Lovecraft’s The Deep Ones,' this loose modernization of Lovecraft's best stories is as terrible as it is instructive.

Newslaundry

From lanterns to the grid: How India is finding ways to see and work after dusk

In the 1950s, Hindi writer Phanishwar Nath Renu wrote a short story called Panchlight – named for the petromax lamp, a corruption of “Petromax light” that had worked its way into the rural vernacular. The story describes a village’s encounter with this object: a source of light but also a…

The Guardian - UK

Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’

The author on feeling Thomas Hardy’s pain, being duped by Donna Tartt and how reading his sister’s copy of Trainspotting made him want to write

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