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Banned Australian children's author launches book prize

An Australian author has launched a literary prize for works that break through gender stereotypes after one of his children's books was banned in Malaysia.

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We Do Not Part by Han Kang review – a harrowing journey into South Korea’s bloody history

The Nobel prize-winner’s strange and unsettling new novel takes its protagonist on a mission that ends up confronting terrible pre-war violence

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Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof review – fire and energy in a new septology

This intense tale of lives connected to the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 is hardly conventional, but undoubtedly exciting

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Benedict Cumberbatch’s Surreal New Thriller Is A Misguided Metaphor On Grief

Despite an impressive performance from Benedict Cumberbatch, 'The Thing With Feathers' drowns in its own metaphor.

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Starmer’s dislike of real politics is plain to see. It’s why his government has no direction

In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth and an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Don’t Make Me Laugh by Julia Raeside review – did you hear the one about the toxic standup?

Set in the London comedy world, this provocative and funny debut novel explores the grey areas of coercion and intimacy

The Guardian - UK

‘Stand up for what’s right’: Melville House co-founder on publishing Jack Smith and Tulsa reports

Stunned by Donald Trump’s return, Dennis Johnson saw a chance to hit back by publishing official reports into shameful episodes in US history

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Hero by Katie Buckley review – fearless study of female desire

The British author’s debut novel pulls no punches in a feminist interrogation of women as archetypes in myths and fairytales

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‘They were trying to do 200 different poses during power cuts’: Bridget Jones director takes on The Joy of Sex

In the 1970s a ‘nude biologist brandishing a cigar’ wrote a game-changing sex manual. Now, ‘Shazza’ is putting his story on the big screen

The Guardian - UK

How a lesbian helpline became a sanctuary for queer British women in the 1990s

IN FOCUS: When author Elizabeth Lovatt began digging through the Finsbury library archive, she didn’t expect to uncover a world of anonymous lesbian helpline call logs. She tells Zoya Raza-Sheikh about the women’s real-life stories that were shared with the Lesbian Line

The Independent UK

The moment I knew: I was mourning the end of my summer fling – then a parcel arrived at my door

When Steph Vizard hooked up with Hugh during a trip back home, it was like living inside a romantic comedy. But could they have a happy ending?

The Guardian - AU

Shon Faye: celibacy, transphobia, and why we're all doing love wrong

The author of bestselling book The Transgender Issue, speaks to Emma Loffhagen about break-ups, London’s dating culture, and the fetishisation of trans women

Evening Standard

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

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Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review – an object lesson in hollow hipsterism

An expat couple carefully curate their lives through plants and Radiohead LPs in this deliciously pessimistic chronicle of gentrifying Berlin

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English writer’s forgotten ‘masterpiece’ predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life

Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying’ 1934 novel to be republished

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Five Great Reads: the ‘monstrous weight’ of Trump’s ego, violent beauty norms, and chasing a meteor

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

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on romantasy fiction: dragons storm the bookshops

Editorial: Hit novels by Sarah J Maas and Rebecca Yarros offer more than sex and escapism. They have reclaimed the fantasy genre for women

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Catherine Peters obituary

Other lives: English scholar at Oxford University and acclaimed biographer of 19th-century authors

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96 Future Predictions That Aged So Poorly, They’re Almost Comical

These hilariously bad predictions prove that the future isn’t always what people expect it to be! The post 96 Future Predictions That Aged So Poorly, They’re Almost Comical first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Ian McEwan novel What We Can Know to be published this year

A ‘deeply humane’ work set in 2119 imagines a UK partly submerged by rising tides

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier review – gaslighting and grief

Actor Holliday Grainger narrates Du Maurier’s dark study of suppressed desire and tragedy

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We Do Not Part by Han Kang: a haunting story which forces the reader to remember a horrific incident in Korea’s past that it tried to erase

We Do Not Part is the latest book by Korean writer Han Kang, who won the Nobel prize in literature in 2024. The book begins in fragments that ebb between dark dream, waking nightmare and memories of how the book’s protagonist Kyungha got to this terrible way of living.

The Guardian - UK

Nicola Dinan: ‘Ottessa Moshfegh helped me find my voice’

The author on the short stories that taught her about grief, being inspired by Jennifer Egan, and rereading James Baldwin

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The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr review – a tale of hope in rural Ireland

A baby washes up in a barrel in this warm-hearted and surprising debut

The Guardian - UK

Silent Catastrophes by WG Sebald review – academic writing at its most sterile

A collection of professional leftovers that can only diminish the posthumous reputation of a master of high literature

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