"Crime Junkie" Host and Mystery Author Ashley Flowers Shares Her Must-Read Crime Books 'The Missing Half' author/podcaster knows a good whodunit. Marie Claire · May 6, 2025
Is Dua Lipa the best literary interviewer? The Houdini singer’s online book club is already a hit. Now her interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning authors are gaining new fans The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2025
Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter review – a Saltburn-style story of identity A mixed-race musician is drawn into the unfamiliar milieu of an upper-class family in this plotty debut The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2025
Emma Jane Unsworth on new book ‘Slags’: ‘Women are encouraged to feel ashamed of our fantasies’ INTERVIEW: The author of ‘Animals’ and ‘Adults’ talks to Helen Coffey about drugs, booze and oblivion, creating characters ‘that are fun to be around’ and why sibling relationships can be the most complicated of our lives The Independent UK · May 6, 2025
Prayers, Pride In Philippine Papal Contender's Hometown Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may be one of the favourites to be named the next pope, but a Catholic Sister who has known him for half a century says she will never pray for it to happen. International Business Times · May 6, 2025
Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary The poet gets the prestigious award for New Yorker essays ‘on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza’ amid war. Al Jazeera · May 5, 2025
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza The Guardian - US · May 5, 2025
Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction The Independent UK · May 5, 2025
The first post-Rise of Skywalker Star Wars project won't be the Ryan Gosling movie, but a new novel starring Finn and Jannah Star Wars: The Last Order will be the first story set after The Rise of Skywalker Total Film · May 5, 2025
Theater producer Jeffrey Seller, behind 'Rent' and 'Hamilton,' shines a light on his own journey Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind such landmark hits as “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “Hamilton,” didn’t initially write a memoir for us The Independent UK · May 5, 2025
Lovie Simone leads new series that adapts Judy Blume's 'Forever...' for TV Lovie Simone stars in the new Netflix series, “Forever.' The Independent UK · May 5, 2025
A civil war in Chile and a president's death by suicide inspired Isabel Allende's new novel A bloody civil war and the death by suicide of an ousted president served as inspiration for Isabel Allende’s most recent novel, “My Name is Emilia del Valle.” The Independent UK · May 5, 2025
Schoolchildren and veterans co-author book of memories for VE Day Recollections of evacuation, rationing and life after the war were documented in My Life Through WW2. Evening Standard · May 5, 2025
Princess Diana Repeated This Surprising Mantra When "Things Got Too Much for Her" With Prince Charles The late princess took "great strength" from one of her qualities. Marie Claire · May 5, 2025
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025 ‘It normalises the abhorrent’: is The Handmaid’s Tale the most frustrating show on TV? As the world edges ever closer to authoritarianism, it would be incredible to watch June fight back against a hellish, misogynistic dystopia. And yet, the final season is as bleak as ever. Where’s the hope we all need?
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025 Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd
Louder · May 5, 2025 "As enjoyable as it is, this seems to be a footnote in the careers of everyone involved": Mixed results as Roger Glover gets his mates in on The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper's Feast Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover's endearing all-star 1974 period piece revisited
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025 Dream State by Eric Puchner review – an epic tale of paradise lost A love triangle plays out across generations in this brilliantly panoramic tale of family ties
Louder · May 5, 2025 “The biggest challenge was not to come off like Tenacious D. It could easily be interpreted as some form of parody”: How Primus made an album about goblins and rainbows while trying not to mention goblins and rainbows 2017’s The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool’s bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children’s story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025 UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers New Writing North’s literary venture The Bee includes magazine and podcast, and is supported by Michael Sheen
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025 Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts The intimate correspondence of a Manchester Guardian journalist and his wife is now the basis for a theatre piece marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day
The Independent UK · May 4, 2025 Conclave author says papal election process is akin to The Traitors The conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor will begin on 7 May
The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2025 Love Groundhog Day and Russian Doll? These are the novels for you High-concept novels are having a moment. Funny, inventive and crackling with big ideas, these ambitious stories will have you instantly hooked
Evening Standard · May 4, 2025 Notes to John by Joan Didion: Dispatches from the therapist’s chair are a guilty pleasure Joan Didion, who died in 2021, never intended Notes to John to be published. They are, as the title intimates, notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and they are about meetings with her psychiatrist, Dr Roger MacKinnon, over the course of a little more than a year, beginning in…
The Independent UK · May 4, 2025 Books of the month: What to read this May from a superb debut novel to a five-star biography THE LIST: Martin Chilton shares his May reading highlights