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Is an American of Indian Descent Raised in Iran and Who Held Iranian Citizenship Indian or Iranian for Affirmative Action Purposes?

When I started researching my book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America, the law review literature asserted that racial classification, in practice, was almost entirely a matter of self-identification. While federal law specified the classifications and their definitions, in practice people could check whatever box they wanted,…

Reason

Salman Rushdie set to be focus of documentary based on ‘Knife’ memoir

Feature-length project will be based on Salman Rushdie’s life and recovery after he was attacked on stage in 2022

The Independent UK

French philospher Edgar Morin publishes novel at the the age of 102

The 102-year-old French philosopher Edgar Morin has published an autobiographical novel, originally written in 1946, after revising it and making it available to the public on June 5th.

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‘In All My Childhood Dreams, I Was a Boy’

"In all my childhood dreams, I was a boy."

Texas Observer

Baillie Gifford will no longer sponsor Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals

Investment management firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel sector put sponsorship deals under pressure

The Guardian - UK

The Captive Imagination by Elias Dakwar review – a window into addiction

A psychiatrist’s fascinating quest to understand drugs and addiction – and to describe the indescribable

The Guardian - UK

Casa Bosques’ queer-themed book curation comes to New York’s East Village

In Pride Month 2024, Casa Bosques’ pop-up bookstore in The Standard hotel, East Village, offers a stylish haven for literary mavens

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Parade by Rachel Cusk review – cold visions of chaos

The world is turned upside down in an experimental novel about art, observation and making stories

The Guardian - UK

Queenie review: Bitingly funny adaptation lives up to the brilliant book

Candice Carty-Williams’ novel, hailed as the Black British answer to ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’, is brought to life on Channel 4

The Independent UK

Two new Mr Men characters are introduced - designed to represent real life

The series was conceived by illustrator Roger Hargreaves, who died in 1988, and has been continued by his son Adam

The Independent UK

Mr Fib and Little Miss Surprise join ranks of the Mr Men and Little Misses

Top-hatted liar and pink-haired character who never knows what the day will bring are added to classic series of children’s books

The Guardian - UK

How 'Eruption,' the new Michael Crichton novel completed with James Patterson's help, was created

“Jurassic Park” writer Michael Crichton died from cancer in 2008 but a new novel co-authored by James Patterson called “Eruption” completes a manuscript he started 20 years ago

The Independent UK

Kafka 100: the Post Office scandal really was Kafkaesque – it’s right out of his novel The Trial

Somebody must have laid false information against [him], for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.

The Conversation

I went to Dior's Scottish show – here's what it was like inside

I OFTEN say sarcastically that journalism is glamorous work – but on Monday night, it actually was.

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Bill Gates to tell his ‘origin story’ in memoir

Source Code: My Beginnings, out next year, will include ‘some of the tougher parts’ of the entrepreneur’s early life

The National (Scotland)

Borders Book Festival ends Baillie Gifford sponsorship 'with great regret'

THE Borders Book Festival will no longer be sponsored by Baillie Gifford after activists called on literary festivals to end their relationship with…

Tom’s Guide

'Pachinko' season 2: Episode guide, trailer and everything we know

"Pachinko" season 2 sees the acclaimed Apple TV Plus return for its second chapter. Here's everything you need to know about this season.

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Rachel Cusk

From a novel sequence that dispenses with much of what we expect from fiction to fearlessly honest memoirs of motherhood and divorce, Cusk is a challenging writer. But also a genius

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Women’s prize for fiction 2024: six expert reviews of the shortlisted books

The Women’s prize for fiction has been championing women writers since it launched in 1996. It is one of the most influential and popular literary prizes in world with writers like Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy, among its past winners.

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Dionne Brown teases playing Queenie Jenkins in the adaptation of the best-selling novel

Queenie star Dionne Brown on playing the South London millennial who captured the hearts of readers and became a literary phenomenon

The Guardian - UK

Cairn by Kathleen Jamie review – a wry SOS for the world

The Scottish poet’s latest collection is a small marvel that shows an acute awareness of planetary and personal impermanence

The Guardian - UK

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry review – fast and loose on the frontiers of America

The Irish novelist turns his hand to the western in an atmospheric tale of romantic runaways from a 1890s US mining town that has an epic feel despite its brevity

The Guardian - UK

Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford

Insistence on investment purity misses the point and will only lead to a decline in arts sponsorship

The Guardian - UK

Viola’s Room review – Punchdrunk’s gothic tale of puzzling wonder

Helena Bonham Carter narrates as a bare-footed audience explore exquisite rooms in this unsettling, grief-soaked journey into the night

Evening Standard

The ES Shopping Shortlist: What to shop, see and know in June 2024

The hot-off-the-press launches and dazzling shopping newness to know this month

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