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Key US independence document bore arms of British king

UK expert discovers George III watermark on paper used as 1776 founding document, which is kept in secure vault

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2024

Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh: ‘All this solidarity from the world – yet nothing has changed’

The Palestinian human rights lawyer and author Raja Shehadeh talks about his hopes and fears for his homeland, and finding a place of refuge amid the chaos of war

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2024

How to make sure you don’t raise toxic sons

As the gender wars become ever more entrenched and politicised, bringing up boys in the post-MeToo era can feel like an impossible task. Ruth Whippman, the author of new parenting manual ‘BoyMom’, tells Helen Coffey why we urgently need to teach young men vulnerability and connection if we want to…

The Independent UK · Jun 8, 2024

Shankari Chandran: ‘In western thinking, duty is seen as a burden’

The Miles Franklin award-winning author contemplates writing, Australia’s attitudes to migrants and the meaning of home

The Guardian - AU · Jun 7, 2024

A new Hunger Games book is coming: Sunrise on the Reaping release date announced

Katniss Everdeen fans will be thrilled with the latest news from Suzanne Collins

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024

OPINION - Straight Acting review: It’s an eye-catching claim: was William Shakespeare queer?

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024

'Queenie' Author Candice Carty-Williams Only Wants to Tell Authentic Stories

The author and showrunner discusses turning her acclaimed 2019 novel into a Hulu miniseries.

Marie Claire · Jun 7, 2024

Will food chains break as seasons become more unpredictable?

“There are really four dimensions,” begins the narrator of The Time Machine, H. G. Wells’s classic Victorian adventure novel. “Three which we call the three planes of space and a fourth, time.” Humans cannot help but think of time as somehow different, perhaps because, as the narrator muses, we continuously…

The Conversation · Jun 7, 2024

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

You Like It Darker by Stephen King; Tomorrowing by Terry Bisson; Freakslaw by Jane Flett; The Mark by Fríđa Isberg; Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024

Child of Klan leader on abandoning white nationalism: ‘I am haunted by its legacy’

R Derek Black unlearned white supremacist ideology, came out as transgender and wrote a memoir about their journey

The Guardian - US · Jun 7, 2024