Recent Books on the Constitution My seminar picks for 2024 (and every year since 2005). Reason · Jul 4, 2024
'Why politics really matters' Alastair Campbell is inspiring young people to take a stand His new politics book aimed at 6 - 9 year old is out today GoodToKnow · Jul 4, 2024
Shadows of Winter Robins by Louise Wolhuter review – a masterful mystery that keeps you guessing This writer’s tantalising second novel is packed with marvellous characters, whose unfurling stories examine generational secrets The Guardian - AU · Jul 4, 2024
Women football players in Africa have overcome enormous barriers – new book tells the story Women’s Football in Africa, the first in-depth book on the subject, traces the history of women’s soccer from initially being banned through to today’s growing numbers of fans and broadcasting potential. It’s a story of triumph despite enormous barriers – among them sexism, abuse, homophobia and religion. We asked its… The Conversation · Jul 4, 2024
Alice Munro Was Bigger than Canada Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes The Walrus · Jul 4, 2024
‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever She was an MP and author with a formidable reputation, fighting for the rights of women and refugees, and opposing the appeasement of Hitler. Why isn’t she better known today? The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2024
Rosarita by Anita Desai review – a transcendent late gift This profound and riddling novel follows a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2024
New Louis Poulsen book explores the Danish lighting company's illuminating world Louis Poulsen: First House of Light, published by Phaidon, is a new design book delving into the Danish company's world of radiant lighting Wallpaper · Jul 4, 2024
Chris Brookmyre: My new book challenged me unlike any other CHRIS Brookmyre might have written dozens of great Scottish crime novels, but that’s not to say there’s nothing that can offer him a challenge... The National (Scotland) · Jul 4, 2024
Reese Witherspoon goes picnic chic in frilly blue gingham with timeless jeans Reese's latest Instagram video features sweet blue gingham and classic blue denim Woman & Home · Jul 3, 2024
Goldsmiths ‘determined’ to close Black British literature course, critics say Staff, students and writers criticise decision to issue programme’s co-founder with a redundancy notice The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2024
Finally, something to be cheerful about in Scottish football A new Scottish football poetry collection could be just what we need after a poor performance at the Euros The National (Scotland) · Jul 3, 2024
‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando He was mentored by Jacques Derrida, and his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Preciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2024
‘Radical’, ‘a headrush’, ‘insanely clever’: the best Australian books out in July 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 · Jul 3, 2024
WhatToWatch · Jul 3, 2024 End of Summer: release date, cast, plot and everything we know End of Summer is a Swedish crime drama...
WhatToWatch · Jul 3, 2024 My Lady Jane season 2: everything we know Will My Lady Jane season 2 be riding on to our screens in the future?
WhatToWatch · Jul 3, 2024 As a Harry Potter fan I visited the bookshop in Porto that 'inspired' JK Rowling — here's what I discovered Livraria Lello in Porto is known as the most beautiful bookshop in the world — but it is also surrounded by an urban myth.
The Guardian - US · Jul 3, 2024 Georgia lawsuit challenges anti-LGBTQ+ book bans over ‘real harms’ Lawsuit says student and youth groups hurt after teacher was fired for reading My Shadow is Purple to students
Creative Bloq · Jul 3, 2024 “Creativity can be spontaneous”: Designer David Airey shares a career’s worth of insights In his book Identity Designed: The Process, David Airey offers up lessons he’s learned through his career to guide designers through navigating their own work.
The Guardian - US · Jul 3, 2024 Cannabis will likely soon be legally classified as medicine. But medicine for what? Experts say the DEA’s rescheduling of cannabis as a medication will be ‘a little bit incoherent’
The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2024 I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson review – a unique take on sibling torment A woman is haunted by her abusive relationship with her brother in this experimental novel of family trauma and memory
The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2024 What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started Critics have long debated which books qualify as a ‘Great American Novel
International Business Times · Jul 3, 2024 Single And Proud: S. Korean YouTuber's Viral Embrace Of Solo Life South Korea has declared its super-low birthrate a "national emergency" and poured billions into encouraging citizens to marry and reproduce, but one YouTuber has found happiness and success promoting the opposite ideal.
Evening Standard · Jul 2, 2024 Who plays who in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: from Emma Myers to Zain Iqbal The TV adaptation is finally about to land on screens
The Conversation · Jul 2, 2024 The Road to the Country: novelist Chigozie Obioma on Nigeria’s brutal civil war, love and redemption Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric tales of Nigerian life in decades past. Like them, his 2024 novel The Road to the Country is “tinged with fable and…