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TV tonight: chapter two of the ultimate Jane Austen docu-series

The extraordinary story of history’s most famous female author continues. Plus: Nathan Fielder’s awkward social experiment. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2025

Katie Piper says man threw sandwich at her after noticing facial burns

The TV host and activist spoke candidly at the 2025 Hay Festival

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2025

BBC ‘defied’ Thatcher with ‘brave’ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, says author Jeanette Winterson

Lesbian coming-of-age drama came out at a time when former PM was seeking to stop positive portrayals of homosexuality

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2025

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Working from home? It’s so much nicer if you’re a man

Ever since lockdown we’ve supposedly all been in it together, doing conference calls in our slippers. But in straight couples, guess who gets the spare bedroom and the proper desk, asks Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2025

‘Publishing is a dream, but this has also been one of the hardest years of my life’: Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher

The novelist has been awarded the Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. She talks about giving up medical training to pursue fiction – and the childhood memories that inspired her winning debut, The Coin

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2025

Dragon on Centre Street by Jonah Bromwich review – drama of Trump the felon

The New York Times reporter gives an insightful – and withering – account of the president’s hush-money trial

The Guardian - US · Jun 1, 2025

Author Philippe Sands was told it is ‘unacceptable’ to read Russian writer Tolstoy amid Ukraine war

‘It is complex,’ said the award-winning writer

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2025

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Norma Meras Swenson obituary

Sociologist and women’s health activist who was a co-author of the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves

The Guardian - UK · May 31, 2025

Voices: Writing a book was meant to be a dream – but publishing it turned into a nightmare

COMMENT: Crowdfunding publisher Unbound is going into administration, leaving authors, contributors and shareholders unpaid. Kat Brown is one of the writers left high, dry and deeply disappointed

The Independent UK · May 31, 2025

Jacqueline Wilson says it would be ‘inappropriate’ to write about Tracy Beaker’s sex life

‘I would feel very wary about writing about Tracy in an adult book,’ said the author

The Independent UK · May 31, 2025

Has Harry Potter become Voldemort?

You can't separate the art from the transphobic artist, but you can still love Harry Potter

Salon · May 30, 2025

Gerlin Bean obituary

Other lives: Activist prominent in the British Black feminist movement

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

‘In his company you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny and friendly – and liked to bet on my pool games

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

World-weary bookworms crave rom-coms too

The director of "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" was inspired by Austen's ability to be both entertaining and deep

Salon · May 30, 2025

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The Independent UK · May 30, 2025

With 'Atmosphere,' Taylor Jenkins Reid leaves the Evelyn Hugo-verse behind and travels to space

Taylor Jenkins Reid loves to research before writing

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

Jacqueline Wilson ‘very wary’ of writing adult Tracy Beaker novel

Author says she won’t revisit the beloved character because it would seem ‘inappropriate’ to discuss her sex life

The Guardian - US · May 30, 2025

‘Science is a human endeavor’: astrophysicist uses art to connect Black and brown kids to the Stem fields

Through her book, Painting the Cosmos, and her non-profit, Onaketa, Dr Nia Imara hopes to introduce underserved youth to the sciences

Reason · May 30, 2025

Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Books, Magazines, and Newspapers: Dealing with Information Overload

[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," written for a… The post Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Books, Magazines, and Newspapers: Dealing with Information Overload appeared first on Reason.com.

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The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies; Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez; Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski; Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The National (Scotland) · May 30, 2025

Winners announced for oldest book prize in the UK

The winners of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the UK's oldest book prize, based in Scotland, have been announced

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

Madeleine Thien: ‘I ran in blizzards and -20C – all I wanted was to listen to Middlemarch’

The Canadian author on mountain running to George Eliot, powerful reminders from Omar El Akkad and the translation that brought Homer’s Iliad to life

The Independent UK · May 30, 2025

George RR Martin is done with fans still complaining about Winds of Winter delay: ‘You have given up on me’

Author says he is producing adaptation of late friend Howard Waldrop's novella

The Independent UK · May 30, 2025

Jacqueline Wilson says she was ‘devastated’ over break from long-time illustrator

Nick Sharratt’s bold and vibrant illustrations have become synonymous with Wilson’s bestselling children’s books

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

Ghost Wedding by David Park review – a thought-provoking novel about the power of the past

The romance is beautifully drawn in this tale of two couples whose lives overlap at a Northern Irish manor house, a century apart

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