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Book of the Week: Who gets to call Aotearoa home

A book on immigration policies thinks hard about 'white supremacist dimensions of settler colonialism' and a government programme that attracts 'billionaire lifestylists and one-percent survivalist lunatics'

Newsroom.co.nz

Peter Gill showed theatre audiences that anywhere could be the centre of the world

The playwright and director, who has died aged 86, completed DH Lawrence’s revolution in spotlighting the stories of working people

The Guardian - UK

Trump Welcomes Epstein Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Into Republican Party, Promotes His New Book

Donald Trump endorses Alan Dershowitz's shift to the Republican Party, promoting his new book criticising Democrats. The move highlights Dershowitz's past ties to Jeffrey Epstein and ongoing scrutiny.

International Business Times UK

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Why waste your time on social media when you could be flicking through picture books?

From histories of opera to compendiums of mosses, they’re beautiful, expertly written and don’t leave you feeling grubby, writes Joel Snape. What’s not to like?

The Guardian - UK

In Britain, we equate blackness with the working class. It’s time for a rethink

In my new book, I narrate the existence, behaviours and sensibilities of the black British middle class, a social group largely ignored, until now

The Guardian - UK

Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin literary award for ‘tour de force’ novel Fierceland

The novelist, poet and rapper won $60,000 for his novel about two siblings who reckon with the legacy of their late father, a palm oil baron in Malaysian Borneo

The Guardian - AU

One Hundred Years of Solitude part 2 review – Netflix show continues to dazzle. But Márquez was right, his novel is unfilmable

3/5 Netflix series fails to capture the porous border between magic and reality, so brilliantly portrayed in Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel

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A moment that changed me: I found a forbidden novel – it led to a dangerous, lasting love

Growing up in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, romance was frowned upon – as was much of my Uyghur culture. But one day, exploring a strange house, I found a gateway to both worlds

The Guardian - UK

I built a website without leaving ChatGPT — and it only took one prompt

I used ChatGPT Sites to turn four book reviews into a polished monthly reading website without writing code. Here’s how it worked and the prompt to try.

Tom’s Guide

How to watch 'The Shards' online — stream the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation from anywhere

Parties, wealth, drugs, and elite socialites collide with a serial-killer story — here's how to watch "The Shards" online and potentially for FREE.

Tom’s Guide

Fantastical TikTok figures draw backlash in NZ

Today from The Detail: An Infometrics report on TikTok attributes a staggering value to the app's contribution to our economy. Experts have doubts.

Newsroom.co.nz

Is George R.R. Martin Still Writing Winds of Winter? Rare Blog Post Update Explained

George R.R. Martin has updated his blog for the first time in months, opening up about a "stressful" year but once again offering no news on The Winds of Winter.

International Business Times UK

Best Australian books out in August: new Meg Mason, musicians tell all and a time-travel tale by ‘a master storyteller’

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU

Anders Danielsen Lie: ‘I’ve always been interested in playing silent characters’

The Worst Person In The World actor stars in a film adaptation of Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.

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The Guardian - UK

This is India: the latest Guardian newsletter launches

New weekly newsletter will bring readers the most compelling news, politics and culture from across India

The Guardian - US

Sex, drugs and serial killers: inside Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis’s lurid TV thriller

The Shards brings the cocaine-addled teens of a 1980s prep school to life with a cast of newcomers and a heavy dose of sleaze

The Guardian - UK

Prisoners of Paradise review – Ellie Bamber heads to Mauritius for chaste literary tale of star-crossed lovers

An upper-class Englishwoman falls in love with a worker on her uncle’s sugar plantation in this insipid adaptation of Romesh Gunesekera’s novel

Marie Claire

The Girlboss Is Dead. But the "Girlbaby" Is Just As Bad

"She wants to live in this frightening, unpredictable world and owe it nothing," writes 'Kitten' author Stacey Yu.

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Children of the Wild by Kevin Powers review – gripping tale of a friendship forged in war

Written by a US army veteran, this novel of courage and cruelty during the first world war is filled with unsettlingly authoritative depictions of violence – but its characters are less believable

The Independent UK

Huw Edwards faces backlash for entering Welsh poetry competition under pseudonym

‘The poisonous narrative encouraged by the press two years ago needed correcting,’ Edwards said of the poem

The Guardian - UK

Geography of Heaven by Rory MacLean – soul-searching journeys into the afterlife

From an ashram in India to an ayahuasca ceremony in Peru, a travel writer searches for meaning after the death of his wife

Marie Claire

Prince William Follows in One Unexpected Royal Couple's “Hands-On” Parenting Footsteps, Per a Family Friend

It's not Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

The Independent UK

Bestselling author Lynda La Plante says six-month driving ban could end her career

The writer, 83, who was tearful in court, had multiple driving offences

The Times of India

Quote of the day by Paulo Coelho: 'If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello'

Brazilian author Paulo Coelho has built a massive global readership by distilling complex spiritual and emotional truths into simple, memorable aphorisms. Among his most widely shared lines is a succinct observation on human transitions: "If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello." On…

The Independent UK

Beloved author Benjamin Alire Sáenz, first Latino PEN/Faulkner winner, dies at 71

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the first Latino to win the PEN/Faulkner prize, has died at 71

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