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Haruki Murakami and the challenge of translating Japanese’s many words for “I”

Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, The City and its Uncertain Walls, revolves around two parallel stories, one focusing on a 17-year-old boy, the other on a 45-year-old man. Readers of the translated English version will gradually become aware of the two worlds, as each first-person narrator establishes his respective setting…

The Conversation

Society of Authors calls for celebrity memoir ghostwriters to be credited

Many celebrities’ books are actually written by others, the writers’ union says, and it’s time they were acknowledged

The Guardian - UK

Spectator breached code with trans comment in Nicola Sturgeon article, watchdog says

A MAGAZINE’S reference to Juno Dawson as a “man who claims to be a woman” in an article on Nicola Sturgeon was discriminatory, the press…

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10 notable books of 2024, from Sarah J. Maas to Melania Trump

Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, Americans still found time to read

The Independent UK

Lunden Roberts Supports President Biden's Pardon Of Hunter Biden

Lunden Roberts expresses support for President Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden, highlighting parental love and the desire for family unity amidst challenges.

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The Borrowers review – Arrietty and co’s awfully wordy adventure

With a cumbersome script and no sense of danger or atmosphere, this production loses its way

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Jessica Parker joins Booker Prize 2025 judging panel

The Hollywood actress owns her own literary imprint.

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Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel for 2025 Booker Prize

The panel is said to be a ‘a jury of creative peers like no other’

The Independent UK

Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Sex and the City star says being asked ‘felt very daunting’, as she signs up to pick the year’s best novel with Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

The Guardian - UK

Maga on the River Plate as global populist right descends on Argentina

CPAC jamboree draws big names from Trump world as Milei positions Buenos Aires as international conservative hub

The Guardian - US

Nikki Giovanni, poet and literary celebrity, has died at 81

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died

The Independent UK

Nikki Giovanni, acclaimed poet of the Black Arts Movement, dies aged 81

The award-winning US poet and author of works like Black Feeling, Black Talk and Those Who Ride the Night Winds has died after a third cancer diagnosis

The Guardian - AU

Author of Elon Musk-Endorsed Book Praised by Suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer Responds:'You Missed the Point'

The author of a self-help book on the U.S. political environment said that the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO killer missed the point of his book.

Latin Times

Prue Leith wants you to cheat

In her new cookbook, "Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom," Leith gives cooks permission to cheat

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John Rose obituary

Other lives: London student recruited to undertake anti-apartheid actions in South Africa in the 1960s and 70s

The Independent UK

New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books in school, public libraries

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law to prohibit book bans in the state and enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law

The Guardian - UK

Did you solve it? That Sally Rooney hat puzzle

The solution to today’s puzzle

The Conversation

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Netflix adaptation is faithful, ambitious and beautifully realised

First published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude, marked out Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez as a leading figure among the notable Latin American writers of his generation. Now, the long-anticipated Netflix adaptation of this epic saga comes to our screens after first being announced in 2019. It does…

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The Philosopher Fish wins oddest book title prize

Richard Adams Carey’s study of the caviar industry scores a narrow victory over How to Dungeon Master Parenting

Evening Standard

Best books 2024: Our writers pick their favourite reads from 2024

All the books we loved in 2024

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond of Hawthornden

A sonnet about disappointed love is enlivened by a large imagination and technical fluency of great vitality

The Guardian - UK

Historic Thomas Hardy building in Dorchester damaged by fire

Property in Dorset town, known as Casterbridge in Hardy’s novels, was where he was apprenticed to an architect

Creative Bloq

First Impressions: freelance illustrator Marie-Alice Harel loves "the freedom" her work offers

First impressions; Marie-Alice on illustrating Peruvian folk tales, Howl's Moving Castle and Neil Gaiman stories

The National (Scotland)

Thousands of free books gifted to the NSPCC this Christmas

NSPCC hubs across the UK have received more than 37,000 free books to share with partner agencies and families in time for Christmas as part of a…

MusicRadar

Wish that Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour could go on forever? Now even The Eras Tour Book will be a record-breaker

After hit albums and the world’s most lucrative tour, the star’s next number one is in publishing

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