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Attacker who stabbed author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison

Lawyers for New Jersey man Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible.

Al Jazeera

Salman Rushdie Assailant Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center.

International Business Times

‘I’m still not tired of it’: the best books to read aloud to kids, according to parents

From wordless books to dynamic bestsellers and those that will give your kids a giggling fit, these are some of our readers favourites stories to share

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Salman Rushdie attacker sentenced to 25 years for frenzied stabbing at lecture that left author blind in one eye

A New York jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Hadi Matar of trying to kill the celebrated author

The Independent UK

Bill Belichick Sheds Light On Jordon Hudson's 'Business' Role With Him

The North Carolina head coach joined Michael Strahan on GMA to promote his new book.

Sports Illustrated

38 Funny And Witty Memes About Literature That Might Inspire You To Open A Book

Something that you probably weren’t aware of is that SparkNotes is ridiculously good at the social media game. Their literary memes are as funny as they are clever!

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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Never Flinch by Stephen King; The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex; Heartwood by Amity Gaige; The Mourning Necklace by Kate Foster; The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah

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Carys Davies wins the Ondaatje prize for Clear, a ‘masterpiece of exquisite, craggy detail’

The Welsh novelist’s third novel, set on a Scottish island during the Highland Clearances, has won £10,000 for writing that ‘best evokes the spirit of a place’

The Guardian - UK

Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie to be sentenced in New York

A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder and assault in February

Evening Standard

Salman Rushdie Attacker Faces Sentencing

An American-Lebanese man will be sentenced on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center.

International Business Times

Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie faces sentencing in New York

The New Jersey man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022 is scheduled to be sentenced

The Independent UK

Princess Kate Looks to Princess Diana's Mistakes With the Press and Gives Them "Nothing," Per Royal Author

"Diana’s life is more reminiscent to me of a pop star’s life."

Marie Claire

Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher wins Dylan Thomas prize with ‘audacious’ novel The Coin

£20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to story ‘tackling trauma and grief with bold and poetic moments of quirkiness and humour’

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Europe’s growing wealth divide: back to the world of Balzac

Editorial: A new study highlights the dangers of a modern rentier capitalism that perpetuates inequality through the generations

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Brontë sisters’ Bradford birthplace opens for visitors

Queen Camilla opens house, refurbished after 18-month fundraising campaign, where you can stay ‘in the same room the Brontës slept in’

The Guardian - AU

Next week, millions of children across the globe will read this Australian book at the same time

In its 25th year, the National Simultaneous Storytime event is inviting children from Australia and beyond to read a gentle story of migration, belonging and family – starring an inquisitive cat and a truck driver

The Guardian - AU

I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena review – a delicious tale of literary deception

An ambitious young writer tells a white lie to land a scoop in this dazzling debut interrogating the ethics of writers

Evening Standard

OPINION - Hanif Kureishi: Right-wing ideology is thriving in the swamps of self-help and gym-bro culture

It is 1964 and my father is up a ladder in a second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road. This is how we’d spend our Saturdays, hunting for old stuff: philosophy, psychology, fiction and politics. My father, an Indian, was also looking for something in Buddhist and Taoist texts that would…

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“In uncertain times, dominated by the ascendancy of soul-dead oligarchs, their corrosive technology and looting economics, the great positive constant for humanity remains our infinite capacity for love.”: Irvine Welsh is releasing a disco album

Men In Love is a “sonic companion” to his new sequel to Trainspotting

The Guardian - US

The Afterlife of Malcolm X: how the civil rights icon influenced America

In the year in which the groundbreaking activist would have turned 100, a new book looks at the enduring impact of his words and how they resonate today

Creative Bloq

Learn to use visual language to convey mood with bestselling children's book artist Tony DiTerlizzi

Ten techniques for creating illustrations that carry emotion.

Evening Standard

The Orwell Prize: London Standard's David Cohen shortlisted for shining spotlight on homelessness

Judges for The Orwell Prize said they were “highly impressed by David’s dedicated commitment and the well-researched focus on timely challenges”

The Guardian - UK

A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi review – a fable about self-mythology

This gloriously absurd Prague-set tale, in which one woman is split into seven selves, is a wild ride

Evening Standard

Magna Carta ‘copy’ wrongly catalogued in 1940s found to be original

Tests were carried out on the Harvard Law School Library document and it was confirmed to be an original issue of the Magna Carta from 1300.

The Independent UK

Court clerk in Murdaugh murder trial charged with showing sealed photographs, perjury

A former court clerk who helped with the murder trial that led to the conviction of once-powerful South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been arrested

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