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2,000-year-old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts

The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandals

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m sitting on the side that’s launching bombs’: author Omar El Akkad on the hypocrisy of the west

The award-winning writer’s new book contends with how the war on Gaza shattered his fragile faith in the so-called free world

The Guardian - US

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf

A vivid outback tale, an anguished 80s love triangle and real life are cleverly held in play in the Australian novelist’s inventive memoir-novel-essay hybrid

The Guardian - UK

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When my sister died, it wasn’t just her own childhood memories that disappeared. Mine did too

Millie had fantastic recall, unlike mine. Now there are parts of my past – and myself – that I’ll never be able to remember, says comedy writer Jason Hazeley

The Guardian - UK

Stories from Cornwall brought to life in new Michael Morpurgo play

White Horse is based on beloved book and explores importance of place, family, home and belonging

The Guardian - UK

‘Royal authority’: Jeffrey Toobin explores the US presidential pardon in his new book

In The Pardon, the bestselling legal author holds a master class on the controversial presidential power, focusing on Ford’s pardon of Nixon

The Guardian - US

The Autobiography of a Cad review – a playful mockery of entitlement and greed

A fine, multitasking cast of three deliver laughs aplenty in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation of a 1930s satire, though the cad’s true malice is lacking

The Guardian - UK

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The Violet Hour by James Cahill review – soapy and satisfying art-world yarn

Artists, gallerists and collectors vie for power in a rollicking mystery that pokes fun while also examining desire and regret

The Guardian - UK

Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld review – sharp stories about the pleasure and pain of nostalgia

In the American writer’s wry, understated second short story collection, the past comes back to jolt her largely middle-aged characters

The Guardian - UK

Writer Percival Everett: ‘Deciding to write a book is like knowingly entering a bad marriage’

The American novelist on James, his Booker-shortlisted retelling of Huckleberry Finn, working with Steven Spielberg and the silliness of the Oscars

The Guardian - UK

The Kings Head by Kelly Frost review – jocular story of street-fighting sisters

The journalist’s debut novel about a London girl gang of the 1950s expertly toys with gender and explores young people’s place in the world

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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…

Salon

WH calls campaign book author a "fraud"

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

The Guardian - US

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

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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.

Evening Standard

Man found guilty of attempted murder of novelist Salman Rushdie

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

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - US

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

Dynamite News

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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