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PayPal betting sites: The best online bookmakers that accept PayPal in 2026

We have reviewed the best PayPal betting sites on the market for bettors that like quick and secure payments online

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2024

The Decameron: Netflix’s raunchy, raucous re-imagining of a medieval plague masterpiece

Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (1353) is a classic plague book. It follows ten noble people quarantining together in a beautiful villa in the Italian countryside. They have fled Florence where in 1348, when the story is set, a deadly Black Death outbreak is raging. While the sick are abandoned and…

The Conversation · Jul 25, 2024

Five of the best books about conspiracy theories

From Covid misinformation to the JFK assassination, these compelling reads explore how conspiracies seduce believers

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2024

Martin MacInnes wins Arthur C Clarke award for ‘intense trip’ of a novel

In Ascension takes prestigious science fiction prize for a story that follows a marine biologist exploring the ocean depths

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2024

JD Vance writes foreword for Project 2025 leader’s upcoming book

Republican VP nominee introduces book by Kevin Roberts, head of rightwing plan that Trump has tried to disavow

The Guardian - US · Jul 24, 2024

I’m an adult who has stopped reading and I’m horrified

Half of UK adults don’t read regularly, according to a new survey. Helen Coffey asks where it all went wrong – and whether we can ever find our way back between the pages

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2024

Donald Trump accused of using 'N-word' slur in racist outburst in new book by nephew

Trump alleged to have used highly offensive racial slur in early 1970s

Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2024

Can a poem be adapted into a video game? Here’s what I learned from trying

Video game adaptations of novels and short fiction have long helped bring works of fiction to new audiences. The Witcher, for example, which now spans three games and a Netflix series, began life as a series of fantasy stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.

The Conversation · Jul 24, 2024

Lady in the Lake: a stunning show that uses murder and mystery to explore the parallel lives of two women in 1960s Baltimore

Lady in the Lake opens with a classic mystery premise: a man unceremoniously dumping a female corpse under a midnight blue sky. Less conventionally, it is narrated by the voice of Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram), the dead woman herself. In this speech, Cleo directly addresses Maddie Morgenstern (Natalie Portman), the…

The Conversation · Jul 24, 2024

A moment that changed me: I made a life-altering decision in a toilet in New Malden

It was awkward. I had just mistaken some hand cream for soap. But when I was asked to join a veterans’ football team, aged 35, I surprised myself

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2024