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America’s unseen book bans: the long history of censorship in prisons

Tens of thousands of books are banned in US prisons, in an often arbitrary process that limits education opportunities

The Guardian - US

Sappho review – the poet’s passions, from ancient Lesbos to spangly clubland

A mix of songs, dance, glitter and camp, this ancient-modern mashup is derailed by bland debates and a convoluted script

The Guardian - UK

‘Madman in a circular room screaming’: ex-aide’s verdict on Trump in book

Former adviser Tom Bossert relays view of defense secretary James Mattis and describes how Trump leaked own meetings

The Guardian - US

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‘I know the adrenaline of escaping’: Henry Cockburn on turning his time on the run into a refugee rap epic

His Costa-shortlisted first book examined his own schizophrenia, from hospital breakouts to hiding from the police. Now the writer has fed this into Tale of Ahmed, a story in rap verse about a boy fleeing Afghanistan for Britain

The Guardian - UK

Story by Rod Serling, Twilight Zone creator, published after 70 years

Daughters of TV great write introductions to First Squad, First Platoon, a story of war in the Pacific released by Strand Magazine

The Guardian - US

'A Beautifully Crafted Tale' – Summer At Tangents Golf Book Review

Summer At Tangents is a brilliantly observed golf novel written by Roderick Easdale and published by Brindle Books

Golf Monthly

Bring back the pleasure of reading in classrooms

Letters: Ruth Allen says the soul has been knocked out of learning English and maths. Plus letters from Amy Lewis and Mary Smith

The Guardian - UK

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Award-winning UK teacher aims to show adults their historical blind spots

Shalina Patel’s book highlights stories traditionally left out of the textbooks, particular those of women and people of colour

The Guardian - UK

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna review – a love letter to London under pressure

The precarity and dreams of thirtysomething Londoners are adroitly explored in this tender portrait of contemporary queer life

The Guardian - UK

Australian literature has long been ‘hijacked by activists’. This has made it richer. Let’s not go backwards

Seeking to dismiss a judge for being passionate about a cause pertaining to the safety and liberation of her people reeks of a desperation to silence a critical voice

The Guardian - AU

'Hurtful and divisive' gay book ban could cost council

Funding for a Sydney council is under threat over its decision to ban books on same-sex parenting as politicians blast the move.

AAP

Going gluten-free could fight bookworms

How chemists are fighting museums' hungry enemies by going gluten-free

Salon

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly review – a harrowing first-person account of a knife attack

The British-Indian writer relives his horrific 2022 stabbing in shocking detail – and opens up about how heading back to the scene of the crime helped him

The Guardian - UK

Pulitzer Prize: Mexican Cristina Rivera Garza and Dominican-American Medar de la Cruz among winners

The Mexican author won the Memoir/Autobiography category while de la Cruz did the same for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Latin Times

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Kristi Noem rejects ‘liberal plant’ claim on dog-killing tale: ‘Buck stops with me’

Sympathetic interviewer suggests rogue editor was responsible for career-torpedoing story in new book

The Guardian - UK

UK audiobook downloads up 17% last year, Publishers Association data shows

Audiobooks are fast becoming ‘a major route to market for consumers of books’, the trade body says

The Guardian - AU

Sydney council bans same-sex parenting books from libraries for ‘safety of our children’

Local MP is concerned move breaches Anti-Discrimination Act while NSW arts minister accuses council of ‘censorship’

The Guardian - UK

Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall review – the time traveller’s life

The British poet’s second collection is an exacting examination of the past, the present and an uncertain future

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The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins

This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life

Wallpaper

All hail the power of concrete architecture

‘Concrete Architecture’ surveys more than a century’s worth of the world’s most influential buildings using the material, from brutalist memorials to sculptural apartment blocks

Salon

Noem cries "fake news" over interview

It's not clear what exactly the Republican governor thought would happen after she wrote about shooting her dog

Tom’s Guide

This literary sci-fi odyssey should be Netflix’s next big-budget adaptation

Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars Trilogy is the perfect source material for the next great sci-fi show.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’: Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot

That They May Face the Rising Sun, about a small rural community in Ireland, has little obvious drama. The director explains how that is exactly what’s winning it awards

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‘Atlas of Never Built Architecture’ delves into unrealised architectural ambition

Unrealised grand plans are chronicled in ‘Atlas of Never Built Architecture’, Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin’s monumental new Phaidon monograph, which collates 300 architectural projects lost to the mists of time

The Guardian - UK

Confronting the audience and breaking the fourth wall: why Black drama is getting meta

On stage and screen, self-referential dramas such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequality

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