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Ocean Vuong's new novel, 'The Emperor of Gladness,' is Winfrey's latest book club pick

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers

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Requiring Fifth-Graders to Read Pro-Gender-Ideology Books to Kindergarten Students (with No Opt Out) May Violate First Amendment

From Judge James Lorenz's order yesterday in S.E. v. Grey (S.D. Cal.): The school activity at issue occurred in the… The post Requiring Fifth-Graders to Read Pro-Gender-Ideology Books to Kindergarten Students (with No Opt Out) May Violate First Amendment appeared first on Reason.com.

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All of Us Atoms by Holly Dawson review – what happens when a writer loses her memory?

A series of scattered recollections and reflections form the basis for this intimate, abstract memoir that riffs on human interdependence

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The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong review – heartbreak and hope

The follow-up to On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a tale of precarity and connection in smalltown Connecticut

The Guardian - UK

Biden destroyed Harris bid by staying in race too long, top adviser says in book

David Plouffe says Biden ‘totally fucked us’ and calls Harris’s 107-day sprint against Trump a ‘nightmare’

The Guardian - US

Margaret Atwood says she cannot remember another time ‘when words themselves have felt under such threat’

The Handmaid’s Tale author spoke out as she accepted the freedom to publish prize at the British Book awards

The Guardian - UK

Designer Prabal Gurung reflects on tough childhood, resilience and runway success in a new memoir

Designer Prabal Gurung has always been a storyteller

The Independent UK

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Top Designer Once Claimed Princess Diana "Ruined" Its "Credibility" by Shopping There

Diana was dubbed "a dreary fashion victim," per the new book 'Dianaworld.'

Marie Claire

‘I had a chance to pass my mum’s story on’: Kazuo Ishiguro on growing up in shadow of the Nagasaki bomb

The film version of A Pale View of Hills, the Nobel-winner’s tale of loss, exile and a pregnant radioactive bride, is about to premiere at Cannes. The writer explains why this story is so personal to him

The Guardian - UK

Ancient example of printed text to be displayed in Melbourne: ‘It unites us all’

A Japanese prayer scroll dating back more than 1,250 years has been acquired by the State Library of Victoria and will feature alongside other rare books items in an exhibition later this month

The Guardian - AU

A landscape transformed: As it responds to cuts in federal programs, the arts community reels

Behind so many award-winning careers, high-profile productions, beloved institutions and in-depth research projects there is often a quieter story of early support from the government

The Independent UK

Graham Linehan pleads not guilty in court over alleged criminal damage and harassment of trans activist

Graham Linehan told cheering supporters outside court: “I will not waver in my resolve.”

Evening Standard

Chelsea Arts Festival: Ambika Mod, Sir Lenny Henry and more added to the bill

More top cultural talents have been announced for the inaugural event in September

Evening Standard

Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth review – a riotous roadtrip

Two sisters reckon with their past selves and the muddles of midlife in a comic tale of secrets, desire and ferocious loyalty

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Nevermoor’s Jessica Townsend on frantic fans, her fantasy smash hit – and feeling ‘gutted’ by JK Rowling

The latest book in Townsend’s bestselling children’s series is out amid a surge in anti-trans rhetoric. But she remains committed to making sure her millions of readers all ‘know they have a place in Nevermoor’

Inverse

45 Years Ago, A Forgotten Fantasy Epic Proved That Adapting Tolkien Is Almost Impossible

Two decades before Peter Jackson, 'The Return of the King' dropped. Here's why it still matters.

The Guardian - UK

Given up on reading? Elif Shafak on why we still need novels

Recent studies suggest we’ve fallen out of love with reading – but the more chaotic our times, the deeper is our need to slow down and read fiction

The Guardian - US

Netflix series reignites search for family of creator disappeared by Argentina dictatorship

El Eternauta writer and his daughters were disappeared by military in 70s, but his grandchildren could still be alive

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De Beauvoir’s 1960s heroine shows little has changed since

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent. But on the journey inside her mind and life, we get a good account of how…

The Guardian - UK

I worry that I don’t ‘get’ romance and am disappointing my husband

You’ve been married for 50 years and you’re in love, so maybe you just speak a different ‘love language’

The Independent UK

Rebecca Solnit: ‘Fiction was always treated as the most important, literary, aspirational goal – f*** that’

INTERVIEW: The prolific non-fiction writer returns to her favourite themes of hope and uncertainty in her cheerful new book, ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’. In a conversation with Hannah Ewens, she discusses why fiction is overrated, why new age spirituality is a hoax and how a functional social welfare…

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The social media-hating philosopher relishing his X ban

Famed philosopher AC Grayling is speaking at writers' festivals around Australia - but you won't find him promoting it on social media.

Evening Standard

Dianaworld review: For Diana fans to enjoy — but not to trust

Generally when I’m reviewing a book on a subject I’ve written about, I turn to the index as soon as I’m bored to see if I’m quoted, so I can skip to the scintillating bits. No need to, here; I rock up in the very first paragraph of the introduction:…

Evening Standard

OPINION - If you want to make London unwelcoming for LGBTQ people, you've picked the wrong city

London is a living, breathing anthology of stories. From Soho to Dalston, every corner whispers tales of those who dared to be different. It’s in these streets that Oscar Wilde once walked, where Virginia Woolf penned her thoughts, and where countless unnamed heroes lived authentically, even when the world wasn’t…

The Texas Tribune

After a sometimes graphic debate, Texas House advances bill limiting kids’ access to sexually explicit books in libraries

The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.

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