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The week in audio: The Lost Archive of James Baldwin; Extreme: Muscle Men; Paris Olympics – review

The American writer’s personal effects, languishing in a French lock-up, are only part of a touching story. Plus, an entertaining tale of 80s bodybuilding, and gymnastics on the radio

The Guardian - UK

Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy

In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. But as tech’s titans donate millions, worrying new parallels emerge

The Guardian - UK

BBC presenter Emma Barnett reveals her side hustle – colouring books

The Today programme cohost has a new family enterprise with her husband Jeremy Weil, publishing sketches of landmarks in UK cities, and soon the world

The Guardian - UK

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Kensuke’s Kingdom review – impeccably elegant animation of Michael Morpurgo adventure

Beautifully hand-drawn, with a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce exploring deep themes, is this adaptation too classy to have wide appeal?

The Guardian - UK

Elif Shafak: ‘As a writer in Turkey, you can be attacked, put on trial, imprisoned’

As she confronts the ecological crisis and the persecution of the Yazidi people in her latest novel, the author talks about the difficulty of being a writer – and a woman – in Turkey

The Guardian - UK

Complicit by Reah Bravo review – a revisionist history of #MeToo

An attempt to understand the complexities of workplace abuse that is more nuanced than its provocative title suggests

The Guardian - UK

Princess Kate Considered Refusing the Same Royal Title as the Late Princess Diana to Avoid Any “Stressful” Comparisons

"It got to the point where she felt she might follow Camilla."

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After 12 years, legendary visual novel Katawa Shoujo is coming to Steam in a "modified" SFW version for those who want it

There's an Itch patch you can download if you want to play the adult version

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Mother points out ridiculousness of new library law that bans children from adult section

‘What about the Matildas out there that literally come to the library to just read, read, and read and then gain superpowers because they’re Matilda?’ the mother said in a TikTok

The Independent UK

Labour MPs to be given book about the ‘enormous suffering’ caused by Tory welfare reform

A crowdfunded campaign will send more than 400 copies of John Pring’s The Department, which looks at the role of the DWP in the deaths of disabled people, to parliament

The Guardian - UK

Norman Swan: ‘I tried very hard to do the opposite of what I experienced as a child’

The veteran broadcaster talks about fatherhood, marriage and the challenges of his own childhood as he releases a book about children’s health

The Guardian - AU

Praiseworthy: why Alexis Wright’s ‘staggering’ epic is sweeping prizes – and challenging readers

The 700+ page novel has been described as a ‘mind-altering experience’ and a massive antidote’ to short attention spans. It’s not an easy read – but it’s not meant to be

The Guardian - AU

The Years review – Annie Ernaux’s faint-inducing masterpiece roars into devastating life

Eline Arbo’s profound but playful adaptation celebrates the multitudes contained within a single life, as big history is embodied by womanhood – including Romola Garai’s shatteringly raw abortion scene

The Guardian - UK

The Years at the Almeida Theatre review: there's so much to love in this startling and enthralling show

This stage adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel offers much that’s still unusual in theatre

Evening Standard

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Well hung? We interview Martino Gamper about his new book of (around) 1,000 hooks

Italian maverick designer Martino Gamper doesn't hang around. He has a new book featuring 1,000 hooks made by hand. We ask him how and why...

The Conversation

Joanna Murray-Smith’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya reminds us Chekhov’s play is both timeless and timely

Virginia Woolf always maintained that, of all of the great writers, the British novelist Jane Austen “is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness”.

The Guardian - AU

New Andy Griffiths, Korean slow food and a frontier war epic: the best Australian books out in August

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

The Independent UK

The Years review: This Annie Ernaux adaptation is a unique, profoundly moving experience

A stage version of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece, in which five women play the author throughout her life, manages the extraordinary feat of intricately telling the story of a whole life in less than two hours

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If You Go by Alice Robinson review – what would you do with a second chance at life?

This ambitious novel, which follows a mother who wakes up in the future without her children, wrestles with complex existential questions

Marie Claire

Why William reportedly 'banned' Meghan from wearing Diana's jewellery

The Guardian - UK

The Grapes of Wrath review – dark moments on a long jalopy ride through a shattered world

The hardship in Steinbeck’s classic Depression-era novel is well captured in Frank Galati’s atmospheric adaptation, but you long for more tension, more to happen

Evening Standard

Inside British editor Will Lewis's fight to save the Washington Post

Ex-Telegraph editor Will Lewis was hired by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos to turn round the fortunes of the iconic US title. Can he face down a staff mutiny and the ire of Prince Harry over his past lives?

Evening Standard

Outgoing Oxford Chancellor Chris Patten says his university produces ‘bullshitters’

‘We can’t celebrate some of our prime ministers’, Patten said in a farewell interview

The Independent UK

The Grapes of Wrath review: Steinbeck’s hymn to human misery and endurance is epic but scrappy on stage

Cherry Jones is wry and warm in Carrie Cracknell’s revival of Steinbeck’s story about a sprawling clan of dustbowl refugees in the Depression era – but the elements of this three-hour production don’t always fully connect

The Guardian - AU

Alexis Wright wins second Miles Franklin prize for Praiseworthy

The 73-year-old Waanyi writer takes home $60,000 for Australia’s most esteemed literary prize, after having won in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria

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