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Inside Trump’s deeply weird ‘obsession’ with Debra Messing — and her ‘beautiful red hair’

‘Their squabbles on social media continue to live rent-free in his mind’

The Independent UK

10 juiciest revelations from Tom Bower's explosive Beckham book

Tom Bower has skewered everyone from Boris to the royals — and in 2024, he turned his lens on Posh and Becks. How juicy was it? And what clues did it contain about the feud with Brooklyn? Katie Strick has the download

Evening Standard

What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh review – in pursuit of peace

The lawyer, activist and author’s latest book divides into two halves – first an edited speech from Kyoto in 2016 and then an anguished exploration of the current conflict

The Guardian - UK

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House of Beckham by Tom Bower review – a symphony of snide

With little fresh detail on show, this biography offers instead a masterclass in insinuation and class-coded curiosities

The Guardian - UK

Stinginess, sexts and a Nazi tee: six revelations from The House of Beckham

Tom Bower’s unflattering portrait of Posh and Becks is packed with moments of high-level cringe

The Guardian - UK

Give Chaucer a chance! Why ‘dead white men’ can still be relevant in NZ’s classrooms

While the proposed revisions of the English curriculum in secondary schools have unnerved and offended some, there is perhaps one silver lining.

The Conversation

Joe Joyce obituary

Award-winning journalist who worked for the Irish Times and the Guardian and co-wrote a bestseller on the scandal-prone taoiseach Charles Haughey

The Guardian - UK

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Angus Robertson says divestment campaigns pose 'existential threat' to arts sector

THE Culture Secretary Angus Robertson has warned that divestment campaigns against corporate sponsors pose an “existential threat” to…

The National (Scotland)

Queenie is a compelling exploration of Black motherhood – I’m glad I gave it a second chance

Like a lot of 20-something-year-old Black women, when the novel Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams debuted in 2019, I was quick to get my hands on it. After devouring it in a day, I was left with the frustration and dissatisfaction that many readers shared.

The Conversation

Bridgerton: the real 18th-century women penning satirical periodicals to bite back at society

In the world of Bridgerton everyone reads the scandalous gossip columns of Lady Whistledown. That Lady Whistedown’s acid pen belongs to none other than the ever-polite Penelope Featherington proved a shocking twist, but not one without historical precedent.

The Conversation

'Kiosk: The Last Modernist Booths' book chronicles a little-known area of Eastern Bloc architecture

Zupagrafika brings Kiosk design, a forgotten slice of socialist architecture history, to life with this collection of modular, modernist booths

Wallpaper

Paloma Faith: Dating apps are a cesspit and younger men have a thing about mums

We went backstage to chat to the singer and now author of her new memoir, MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F***ery

Evening Standard

George Sand: True Genius, True Woman review – a pleasure and an education

Writer Séverine Vidal and illustrator Kim Consigny tell the extraordinary life story of the French author, who cross-dressed and pricked male pomposity, with great care and humour

The Guardian - UK

War by Louis-Ferdinand Céline review – disturbing, compelling, incomplete

A shellshocked soldier in Flanders embarks on a dreamlike journey in this savage fragment of a tale written in the 1930s by the controversial author of Journey to the End of the Night

The Guardian - UK

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3 trends from the 2010s that are very much back in vogue

Soft grunge and moody palettes are here to stay.

The Guardian - UK

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden review – secrets and sex in postwar Europe

This remarkable debut novel explores the Netherlands’ failure to reckon with the fate of Dutch Jews alongside one woman’s reckoning with herself

The Guardian - UK

God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss review – did enslaved scribes write the New Testament?

The theologian and journalist suggests that slaves in the Roman empire contributed to the core texts of Christianity in this refreshingly readable book

The Guardian - UK

Bad Habit by Alana S Portero review – in search of acceptance

Vividly bringing to life the everyday struggles of trans people, this Almodóvar-endorsed bestseller, set in 1980s Madrid, is affecting and evocative

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The Cursed Friend by Beatrice Salvioni review – rebels with a cause

The short-story writer’s debut novel, set in 1930s Italy, is a vibrant, Ferrante-esque tale of an intense relationship and revenge

The Guardian - UK

The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – a Hollywood insider with an outsider’s eye

The actor’s star-studded memoir-cum-account of his sister’s murder could have been a clunky read, but his self-awareness, honesty and humour make the nephew of Joan Didion and son of Dominick Dunne an engaging narrator

The Guardian - UK

Sulaiman Addonia: ‘I’m taking writing back to the rock’n’roll era!’

The Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist on childhood trauma and its effect on his work, the importance of sex in stories and paying homage to your imagination

The Guardian - UK

How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project

A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry for an industrial complex to bolster American military defence

Creative Bloq

Age of the Ape: Uncovering the VFX behind Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Witness first-hand the primate ingenuity involved in making the fourth instalment of the iconic franchise.

The Guardian - UK

India: author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted over 2010 Kashmir remarks

Official from ruling BJP party allows action against Booker winner under controversial anti-terrorism law

The Independent UK

Booker-winning author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted under anti-terror laws in India

Roy faces charges over a speech she gave about Kashmir in 2010

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