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OPINION - Straight Acting review: It’s an eye-catching claim: was William Shakespeare queer?

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…

Evening Standard

'Queenie' Author Candice Carty-Williams Only Wants to Tell Authentic Stories

The author and showrunner discusses turning her acclaimed 2019 novel into a Hulu miniseries.

Marie Claire

Will food chains break as seasons become more unpredictable?

“There are really four dimensions,” begins the narrator of The Time Machine, H. G. Wells’s classic Victorian adventure novel. “Three which we call the three planes of space and a fourth, time.” Humans cannot help but think of time as somehow different, perhaps because, as the narrator muses, we continuously…

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Child of Klan leader on abandoning white nationalism: ‘I am haunted by its legacy’

R Derek Black unlearned white supremacist ideology, came out as transgender and wrote a memoir about their journey

The Guardian - US

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

You Like It Darker by Stephen King; Tomorrowing by Terry Bisson; Freakslaw by Jane Flett; The Mark by Fríđa Isberg; Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

The Guardian - UK

The Fraud by Zadie Smith audiobook review – exuberant and funny

Narrated by the author, this story of a Victorian author and his housekeeper cousin, who is obsessed by the Tichborne claimant, explores the lies people tell themselves

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Cusk’s Parade Turns the Novel Upside Down

In the book, characters exist, sort of, but they’re mostly artists, and they’re almost all named G

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US state abortion ban exemptions aren’t vague by accident. Uncertainty is the point

Anti-choice statutes are designed to keep health providers fearful of running afoul of the law. Women suffer for it

The Guardian - US

Emma Donoghue: ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull blew my tiny mind’

The Room author on adoring Alan Garner, inspirational Sylvia Plath and the wisdom of Terry Pratchett

The Guardian - UK

Nicola Sturgeon provides update on 'therapeutic' memoir

NICOLA Sturgeon has provided an update on her new memoir as she predicted that “one or two people” might hate it.

The National (Scotland)

Leadership matters, it’s time to improve the football governance bill

Jason Stockwood, Grimsby’s vice-chair, hopes to raise a national issue with Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer at a live debate in Grimsby on Wednesday

The Guardian - UK

If You Are Going Through An Existential Crisis, These 50 Funny Philosophical Memes Might Help

The “Disturbing Book Club” Facebook page is dedicated to funny, relatable and existential philosophy memes. The post If You Are Going Through An Existential Crisis, These 50 Funny Philosophical Memes Might Help first appeared on Bored Panda.

Bored Panda

The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas review – the power of love

Two men in midlife navigate their growing desire to commit to each other in a changing Australia

The Guardian - UK

Beautiful boost: Interest in Hunter Biden’s memoir soars during trial

Prosecution relied heavily on Biden’s memoir to recount drug use during trial

The Independent UK

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New ‘Hunger Games’ movie announced and it’s the one fans have been waiting for

Suzanne Collins has confirmed a new Hunger Games novel with a movie adaptation to follow — here's everything we know about "Sunrise on the Reaping"

Inverse

The Most Iconic Sci-Fi Dystopian Franchise of the Century is About to Get Even Bigger

Of all the teen dystopias pumped out during the 2010s, only one was big enough to survive into the next decade. Now, Suzanne Collins' infamous epic is getting a second prequel.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ll never forgive or forget’ – Griffin Dunne on the darkness that overtook his gilded Hollywood upbringing

Griffin Dunne’s memoir is full of wonderful tales about Martin Scorsese, Carrie Fisher and Madonna. But the killing in 1982 of his 22-year-old sister – and the subsequent trial – overshadows everything

The Guardian - UK

Baillie Gifford cancels all remaining sponsorships of literary festivals

Cambridge, Stratford, Wigtown and Henley festivals say firm ended deals after protests over its links to Israel and fossil fuels

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Marie Claire

King Charles Put Any Issues with Prince Harry Aside to Send Along a Gift to Granddaughter Princess Lilibet for Her Third Birthday—But Is Reportedly Withholding Another Gift Until the Rift Ends

Lili turned three earlier this week, on Tuesday, June 4.

The Guardian - AU

Everything is Water by Simon Cleary review – one man’s pilgrimage along Brisbane River

Navigating on foot, Cleary is guided by histories, traditional owners and some unexpected weather, resulting in a rich account of the natural world

Marie Claire

The 25 Best Romance Books of 2024 (So Far)

Add these 25 new novels to your to-read stack ASAP.

The Conversation

Inside the rise and fall of one of the world’s most powerful writing groups

The Romance Writers of America, once the world’s largest and most powerful authors’ association, filed for bankruptcy on May 30, 2024.

The Conversation

Summer reading: 5 young-adult fiction novels that explore LGBTQ+ teen lives

In recognition of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, The Conversation reached out to Gabriel Acevedo and James B. Blasingame, English professors at Arizona State University who focus on sexuality and sexual identity in young-adult fiction. What follows is a list the two scholars say are “must-read” summer novels featuring teenage LGBTQ+ protagonists.

Marie Claire

Crime thriller None Of This Is True is coming to Netflix - and it's one for Baby Reindeer fans

Prepare to be gripped

The Guardian - UK

‘But you hated these clothes!’ The complicated history of ‘lesbian fashion’

From a 17th century Swedish queen to drag king Stormé DeLarverie, a new book charts the myriad styles of women-loving women through the ages

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