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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

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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

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...

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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”.

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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 Guardian - AU

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

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - AU

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

Marie Claire

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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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

The Guardian - US

Doctors told Pelosi of concern for Trump’s mental health, ex-speaker says in book

Exclusive: Pelosi calls Trump ‘unhinged’ and reveals exchange with doctors at 2019 memorial for top psychiatrist

Tom’s Guide

Netflix just got one of the best mystery thriller shows of 2024 — and it's 90% on Rotten Tomatoes

One of the best mystery thriller shows I’ve seen this year just landed on Netflix — and it’s 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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The Guardian - UK

Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu review – haunting American dreams

A journalist travels across the US to unravel the secrets surrounding the life and death of his Ethiopian immigrant father

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Song spirals of ancestors will be heard in new work

A dance piece based on traditional Milkarri, or women's song spirals, of East Arnhem Land will premiere at the Darwin Festival this month.

Marie Claire

Prince William Broke Up With Kate Middleton Over the Phone in 2007, Royal Expert Reveals

“He felt they needed ‘a bit of space’ to ‘find our own way.’”

Marie Claire

The 22 Best Books About Fashion That Every Style Lover Should Read

From nonfiction deep dives about brands to memoirs by style icons.

The Independent UK

One of the summer’s must-read novels is on the Booker Prize longlist

It’s a joy to see Rita Bullwinkel’s wonderful ‘Headshot’, the story of eight teenage girls at a boxing contest, on this year’s enticing Booker Prize longlist, writes Jessie Thompson. Here’s why you should read it

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Conversation

Filling the silences in family stories − how to think like a historian to uncover your family’s narrative

Great-grandmothers. We all have them. But most of us will never know them except through glimpses of fading bits of paper: sepia photographs, recipe cards, letters in handwriting traced by a fountain pen dispensing cocoa-colored ink.

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