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Renowned Memoirist And Journalist Jill Schary Robinson Passes Away

Explore the life and literary contributions of Jill Schary Robinson, a prominent writer known for her memoirs and novels, who passed away at 88.

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New monograph explores 60 years of influential comic art

Published to accompany a new exhibition at Paris’ Centre Pompidou, ‘Comics 1964-2024’ is a must for neophytes and aficionados of the graphic novel

Wallpaper

OPINION - The spy who bored me: All the people I knew who became spies are dull — thank goodness

As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…

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Public called on to nominate Scots language heroes ahead of awards ceremony

THE Scottish public are being called on to nominate their Scots language heroes ahead of a national awards ceremony.

The National (Scotland)

Think of Prenups and Postnups as Financial Planning Tools

These contracts provide a clear framework for asset management and protection and are especially useful if you get married later in life.

Kiplinger

The Hot Wing King at the National Theatre review: a tasty, stimulating experience

Katori Hall brings nuance and passion to this story of four queer black men in Tennessee, though it won’t win any awards for brevity

Evening Standard

The Echoes by Evie Wyld review – a jigsaw puzzle portrait of buried family secrets

In the fourth novel by the award-winning author of The Bass Rock, Wyld weaves a cleverly fragmented story of an Australian woman whose traumatic past casts a long shadow on the present

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Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould

The Marx Brothers collaborator and New Yorker writer returns to the dime store novels and schlocky movies of his teens – and nails American culture

The Guardian - UK

Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers review – the myriad faces of a musical maverick

The critic leaves no thought unturned in a personal, interrogative exploration of the life and work of a much-mythologised musician

The Guardian - UK

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an exercise in nostalgia

The Guardian - UK

I never realised how much freedom and comfort softness could bring

It’s easy enough to get lured into adopting a brittle persona, but there are other ways to live your life

The Guardian - UK

Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi review – fast and filthy in New Lagos

Existential literary fiction meets underworld caper in this unflinching tale of two recently parted lovers licking their wounds on a wild weekend in a corrupt city

The Guardian - UK

The week America was at its worst

And it all started with Donald Trump's Miracle of Butler

Salon

Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han review – Taiwan’s #MeToo movement

This finely written, semi-autobiographical tale of a 13-year-old girl’s grooming by her tutor is given tragic depth by the author taking her own life after publication

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A Netflix film, statue and a newly discovered first edition: joy at celebrations of Aphra Behn

As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake

The Guardian - UK

In brief: A Ride Across America; This Motherless Land; Be Mine – reviews

A bicycle-led musing on the state of the US; a page-turning, Nigerian-inflected reworking of Mansfield Park; and a wistful final chapter for Richard Ford’s sportswriter Frank Bascombe

The Independent UK

Vatican's Pius XII archives shed light on another contentious chapter: The Legion of Christ scandal

The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII are providing details about the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ

The Independent UK

Ernest Hemingway fans celebrate the author's 125th birthday in his beloved Key West

Ernest Hemingway spent the 1930s in Key West, Florida, and more than six decades after his death, fans, scholars and relatives continue to congregate on the island city to celebrate the author’s award-winning novels and adventure-filled life

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Orlaine McDonald: ‘As a writer it’s important that I don’t look away’

The debut novelist on her haunting tale of mothers and daughters, the importance of putting black women on the page and the art form that makes her feel most alive

The Independent UK

This is how Secret Service protection has changed for presidents over the years

As the world has vastly changed, so has protection for presidents since the days when the public could come to the White House to meet Abraham Lincoln

The Guardian - UK

Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler review – witty millennial angst

A young woman returns to the university town where she grew up in this biting satire of precarity and privilege

The Independent UK

Emma Watson ‘stalker’ arrested in Oxford after demanding to see Harry Potter star

Chad Michael Busto turned up at Oxford University where the actor is studying for a masters degree

Marie Claire

Princess Diana Agreed to a Meeting with John F. Kennedy Jr. Because Sister-in-Law Sarah Ferguson “Had the Hots for Him” and Diana Wanted To “Do One Up on Her”

For their 1995 meetup at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, “Diana wanted it to be discreet because it had all the makings of a great gossip story.”

The Independent UK

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s biographer Omid Scobie unveils new show with royal spin

The will explore the press room at Buckingham Palace.

The Conversation

Why Taylor Swift’s gothic work is as important as the novels of Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker

Taylor Swift has cultivated a global brand that might seem incompatible with the darkness, abjection and monstrosity of gothic fiction. But, beneath the friendship bracelets and sequins, her global Eras Tour makes extensive use of gothic elements to engage her audience and articulate her feminist politics.

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