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More and more, I sense I’m out of touch. Can my expat writing still call Australia home?

Putting anything down is an exercise in vulnerability but the fear of getting my homeland wrong is embarrassing and invalidating

The Guardian - AU · Oct 21, 2024

Dune: Part Three: Release date, plot, cast & everything we know about Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune: Messiah

Denis Villeneuve isn't finished with Arrakis and Paul Atreides yet. Keep your stillsuit on and get ready for Dune: Part Three.

Space · Oct 21, 2024

Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

Outcry in Montgomery county as Linda Coombs’ book on European colonization of Native American land reclassified

The Guardian - US · Oct 21, 2024

‘It’s quite galling’: children’s authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles

Keira Knightley is latest star to publish a children’s book, but some say trend pushes aside genuine writers and makes it harder to find great children’s fiction

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

Yehuda Bauer, prominent Israeli Holocaust scholar, dies at 98

Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2024

Autumn review – Ali Smith adaptation has humour and charm in spades

It is a treat to see this kaleidoscopic meditation on stories and the nature of time brought to the stage, even if at times the play struggles to hold the full weight of its ideas

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

Becoming Nancy review – 70s-set coming-out musical radiates optimism

Terry Ronald’s true-life tale of a bullied gay teenager who prevails in the school production of Oliver! is performed with affecting verve

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

Time of the Child by Niall Williams review – sublime tale of small-town Irish life

An abandoned baby changes the lives of a doctor and his daughter in a beautifully written novel about second chances and familial love

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

K-pop, K-movies, a Nobel prize … and now K-poetry: book of wise words adds to Korea’s cultural glory

After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

Eve opens up about her new memoir, the gritty edge of UK rap and the industry’s major 'reckoning'

The American rapper, 45, tells The Standard: ‘It's time for these men who have been using their power and all the other things... it's time for their reckoning’

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2024