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Literary gold … or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield

Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?

The Guardian - UK

Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the Booker

The Guardian - UK

‘The essential ingredient is openness’: Curtis Sittenfeld on the deep joy of midlife friendship

Friendships become closer and more fulfilling as you get older argues the novelist, because by the time you reach middle age everyone has faced dramatic challenges, disappointments and sorrows – and being honest about them is a powerful point of bonding

The Guardian - UK

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The CIA smuggled the Guardian into the eastern bloc during the cold war

The US agency sent the Guardian Weekly alongside 10m books including titles by Orwell and Solzhenitsyn by truck, yacht, balloon and in travellers’ luggage

The Guardian - UK

The best books to get now — and look forward to in Spring

Daffodils have started to appear and it feels as though we are finally emerging from what has been a particularly gloomy and chilly winter. We can’t promise you blue skies and cherry blossom from now on in, but below are the new titles currently giving us life, from a landmark…

Evening Standard

WH calls campaign book author a "fraud"

Steven Cheung said author Michael Wolff suffers from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and has a "peanut-sized brain"

Salon

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner refused to sign memo saying Trump was not antisemitic, book says

Pair declined to give public endorsement of Trump in wake of 7 October attacks, All or Nothing by Michael Wolff reveals

The Guardian - US

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Man Found Guilty Of Trying To Kill Salman Rushdie

An American-Lebanese man was found guilty by a jury Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the "Satanic Verses" author.

International Business Times

Man found guilty of attempted murder of novelist Salman Rushdie

Rushdie was stabbed with a knife multiple times in the head and neck

Evening Standard

Salman Rushdie trial: Guilty verdict reached in trial of man accused of trying to kill author

The British-American novelist was seriously wounded and blinded in one eye in the August 2022 attack. Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to the charges

The Independent UK

How 27-second knife attack nearly cost Salman Rushdie his life after surviving decades of death threats

Satanic Verses writer told Hadi Matar’s trial in New York how he narrowly avoided death after attacker with ‘ferocious’ eyes left him in ‘lake’ of blood

The Independent UK

Man found guilty of attempted murder in Salman Rushdie stabbing trial

Jury convicts Hadi Matar, 27, charged with trying to kill author at literary gathering in New York state in 2022

The Guardian - US

‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right

In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today

The Guardian - US

Literature sheds light on gaps in law, humanises it: Former CJI Chandrachud

The former Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, said that literature sheds light on the gaps in law and humanises it

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The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A boy with his head in the clouds; a Kurdish refugee’s tale; helicopter heists, a dancer’s dreams, a mission to save Mars and more

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Closing Arguments In Rushdie Attack Trial

The trial of Hadi Matar, accused of attempting to kill author Salman Rushdie, reaches its conclusion with closing arguments imminent.

Evening Standard

Several of Prince Harry's secret US visa records to be released in latest twist in legal saga

Lawyers for US Department of Homeland Security agree some of Harry’s visa documents can be released

The Guardian - UK

Ben Okri: ‘Is A Tale of Two Cities the greatest English novel? Meet me in a pub to discuss’

The poet and novelist on having his heart broken by Animal Farm, imagining Ibsen and Chekhov characters as Nigerian, and ditching physics for Plato

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An exiled group within Labour is making a comeback – it could hold the key to repelling Farage

Many of Blue Labour’s diagnoses have been proved correct. With Reform targeting Labour’s working-class support, a reappraisal is overdue, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

The Independent UK

Stephen King makes surprise return to X to issue blistering attack on Trump and Musk

‘I’m baaaack! Did you miss me?’ joked the author

The Guardian - UK

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis review – witty debut about Islamic State brides

A young academic travels to Iraq to help a British Asian who joined IS at 15, in this rollicking account of a UN deradicalisation programme

The Independent UK

Lawyers to deliver closing arguments in the trial of man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie

Lawyers are set to deliver their closing arguments Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a western New York lecture stage

The Guardian - AU

Candide review – a joyous, dazzling, bonkers satire

Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland TheatreDean Bryant, one of Australia’s greatest directors, coaxes magic out of Voltaire’s novella in an operetta that is both funny and meaningful

Latin Times

Kash Patel Pressured to Release Epstein Files After Previously Pledging to Do So on 'Day 1': 'Bring on the Pain'

Kash Patel faces growing pressure to release Jeffrey Epstein's black book after his pledge to do so "on day one," amid speculation Trump could be among those named.

The Conversation

From satire to serious journalism – how The New Yorker has shaped a century of thought

Australian subscribers to the print edition of The New Yorker will know the feeling: it arrives once a week, or sometimes, as buses do, in pairs.

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