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James by Percival Everett review – a gripping reimagining of Huckleberry Finn

Percival Everett’s gleeful reboot of Mark Twain puts the enslaved Jim centre stage in a horrifying, painful and funny novel

The Guardian - UK

Capturing the Solar Eclipse: Meet the Fashion Photographers Obsessed with Sunglasses

As we get caught up in total eclipse 2024 fever we explore the intersection of celestial phenomena and fashion photography through the stylish lens of sunglasses.

Fashion Times

'Breakfast At Tiffany's' Copy On Sale In New York For $1.5 Million

A diamond-covered edition of Truman Capote's seminal novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is on sale for $1.5 million to mark the centenary of the author's birth.

International Business Times

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Stephen Mitchell obituary

Other lives: Leading scholar of the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine periods in modern-day Turkey

The Guardian - UK

Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson review – art, solitude and the supernatural

An artist on a remote island turns her gaze to a mysterious group of women living off‑grid in a thought-provoking and sometimes poetic debut novel by an award-winning essayist

The Guardian - UK

Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes review – a searing ‘sad girl’ tale

The award-winning poet’s debut novel is a barbed, brisk study of a woman’s suffering after an assault

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Husbands; The Book-Makers; Meetings With Moths – review

A witty multiverse romcom; chatty erudition about books and printing; and an illuminating exploration of the world of a nocturnal insect

The Guardian - UK

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White Rural Rage review: Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ jibe at book length

Study of red state resentments that power Trump neglects key factors that help endanger Democrats outside US cities

The Guardian - US

A Necessary Kindness by Juno Carey review – demystifying abortion: an insider’s account of its long and painful history

Eight years working in abortion provision led the author to make this frank and moving case for safeguarding reproductive freedoms – and ending the culture of secrecy and guilt

The Guardian - UK

Michael Magee: ‘There’s a disbelief at how I’ve ended up’

The Belfast novelist on moving between memoir and fiction in his prize-winning debut, turning down a spot on Granta’s best young British novelists list and why Lords of the Rings was his ‘gateway drug’

The Guardian - UK

Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published

The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings

The Guardian - UK

The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas review – fiendishly gripping

Dark sexual secrets and lies drive an ingenious and wickedly funny tale of meltdown on a Greek honeymoon

The Guardian - UK

‘The crime writer crime writers read’: Garry Disher, author of 60 books and finding fame in his 70s

The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’

The Guardian - AU

Kate Beckinsale Reads a Book About Grief as She Continues to Document Her Prolonged Hospital Stay

The actress has been dealing with an unspecified health issue for nearly a month.

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Salon

Spring cleaning: Books are trash too

I used to hold on to books as if they were cash, before realizing that all books are not created equally

The Guardian - UK

Lynne Reid Banks obituary

Bestselling author of the 1960 novel The L-Shaped Room and the children’s classic The Indian in the Cupboard

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh international book festival announces ‘relaunch’ as sponsor row remains unresolved

New director Jenny Niven calls controversy over lead sponsor Baillie Gifford’s fossil fuel links ‘the nature of the beast’, but activists are still calling for authors to boycott the event

Evening Standard

Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan review: a thrilling, picaresque tale of London life

Few things in life are as daunting as the doorstop novel that comes complete with a glossary of the characters featured within. Over the 650 pages of Andrew O’Hagan’s latest, it warns us, we will have 59 different people to keep track of, ranging from gang members and drill rappers…

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The Guardian - UK

Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting

Promotional video for a Twits spin-off book by broadcaster and his colleague Chris Smith is criticised by charity for the blind

WhatToWatch

Lord Of The Flies: cast, plot, locations, filming news and everything you need to know

Lord Of The Flies, based on the classic William Golding novel, is coming to BBC1 and Stan.

Total Film

Dune director Denis Villeneuve is making a movie about nuclear war – and it sounds chilling

It will be based off a terrifying non-fiction book

The Guardian - UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje; The Silence by Gillian Clarke; Joy in Service on Rue Tagore by Paul Muldoon; May Day by Jackie Kay; I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It by Sanah Ahsan; Grief’s Alphabet by Carrie Etter