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“A Deep Deficit”: Barack Obama Stuns With Honest Admission About The State Of His Marriage

“I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole,” Barack Obama said as he shared an update on the state of his marriage with Michelle Obama.

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George M. Johnson's 'All Boys Aren't Blue' tops 2024 list of most 'challenged' US library books

The American Library Association has unveiled the 10 most “challenged books” of 2024

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Poem of the week: A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth by Ben Jonson

A strategically flattering tribute to a pioneering female writer is lifted by authentic warmth and admiration

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Amazon Kindle gets a free feature upgrade borrowed from TV

Amazon has announced a new Kindle feature that is perfect for those who love a book series.

Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come

Sketched in cinematic black and white, this illustrated interpretation of the late author’s postmodern detective novel is a ‘stone-cold masterpiece’

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Kerry Greenwood, Australian author of Phryne Fisher murder mysteries, dies aged 70

Partner confirms death of prolific author, criminal lawyer and playwright after illness in her home city of Melbourne

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Tributes flow for Phryne Fisher author Kerry Greenwood

Australian author Kerry Greenwood - who wrote the popular Phryne Fisher historical detective series - has died at the age of 70.

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Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne review – complicity, courage and cowardice examined in a slippery marvel

The Submarine author employs that novel’s warmth and wit in his investigation into whether his great-grandfather knowingly helped to make chemical weapons for the Nazis

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Lori Vallow Daybell: ‘Doomsday’ mom who killed two of her children goes on trial over death of husband

A woman who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to kill a romantic rival is on trial again

The Independent UK

Prince Philip Was "Quite Ready to Die" But Queen Elizabeth Was Left With a "Huge Void"

"I have absolutely no desire to cling on to life unnecessarily. Ghastly prospect."

Marie Claire

The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2025 – enter now!

The annual award for aspiring cartoonists – which now boasts its own evening event – offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners landing book and film deals

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“Toxic Female”: Woman Who Slept With 200 Men After Cancer Diagnosis Leaves Stirring Note

"I realize I did get to fall in love. I am in love. With me."

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We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – the forgotten voices of black Britain

The author’s sharply intelligent history of how black British identity was forged beyond London in the cauldron of the Thatcherite 1970s and 80s is a necessary corrective

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NASA website removes 'First Woman' graphic novel — but here's where you can still find it

The interactive female astronaut series was created to inspire a new generation of space explorers.

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Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis review – an Iraqi Jew’s celebration of an endangered culture

In this deeply personal but wryly funny memoir, the author examines her Middle Eastern ancestry and asks what it means to witness her community and their traditions fade from memory

The Guardian - UK

Alex Wheatle obituary

Author of the Crongton novels whose stories of inner-city life give a realistic portrait of growing up in contemporary Britain

The Guardian - UK

The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – a warm story of second starts

A bereaved woman forms new relationships in the author’s first novel in seven years, a tender and funny tale of forgiveness

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In brief: Bad Nature; Bad Friend; The Flitting – review

An impelling US road-trip for our times; an enlightening cultural history of female friendships; and a bond forged over butterflies for a son and his dying father

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The new book from Scotland which delves into how Russia operates

From a Western perspective, it’s often hard to understand why the Russian people would support a man like President Vladimir Putin and fail to…

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Handle with care: the international community sending parcels of pure joy through the mail

Anna Ryan-Punch was 15 when she received her first friendship book. It was the start of a lifelong hobby

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Oisín Fagan: ‘I was at the altar of literature and had its fire in me’

The Irish author on his new ‘violent seafaring epic’, his appetite for body horror and living his entire life book-first

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On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights

The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your garden

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‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?

US political scientists’ book argues aggressive Covid policies such as mask mandates were in some cases misguided

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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown review – you’ll read nothing else like it this year

This exhilarating debut about working-class girls growing up in the hope-starved atmosphere of a small northern English city feels essential

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