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The prospect of a high school or college reunion elicits shame, dread and regret. What if going could actually be good for your mental health?

The Guardian - US

Netflix darling Harlan Coben explains why his leading character hasn’t made it to screen

Bestselling author is behind several Netflix mystery hits, including ‘Fool Me Once’ and ‘Stay Close’

The Independent UK

So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle review – an irresistible celebration of female courage

A French cartoonist has doubts about her boyfriend in Mirion Malle’s third book in English, a striking hymn to women and solidarity

The Guardian - UK

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Olivia Laing on the politics of gardens: ‘A garden is a rebel state’

When Olivia Laing began restoring a walled garden in Suffolk, the writer found that green spaces can also be sites of beauty, refuge and radical politics. They speak to Lucy Jones about their new book, ‘The Garden Against Time’

The Independent UK

‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify

A school district in Houston has voted to redact chapters on vaccines and climate change, and parents and educators are worried

The Guardian - US

Elizabeth Harrower and Shirley Hazzard only met six times. They wrote to each other for 40 years

The two literary greats wrote 400,000 words to each other in letters that now reveal rare insights into their friendship - sometimes affectionate, intimate, cool and resentful

The Guardian - AU

Limonov: The Ballad review – Ben Whishaw brilliant as Russia’s outlaw bohemian

Eduard Limonov’s bizarre career, from rebel émigré writer in New York to leader of a fascistic and militaristic political group, is told with gusto by Kirill Serebrennikov

The Guardian - UK

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Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru review – sex, drugs and conceptual art

The novelist’s love triangle has its sights set on the elite insularity of the New York art world but its plot is programmatic

The Guardian - UK

How Bridgerton’s real life Lady Whistledown scandalised 18th-century society

The subversive work of Eliza Haywood, the feminist forerunner of the TV show’s gossip columnist, is about to be republished

The Guardian - UK

English review – acclaimed Iran-set classroom drama is a bit too well-behaved

The RSC’s European premiere of Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer prize-winning play tailors its intriguing characters a little too neatly

The Guardian - UK

The Year of Living Constitutionally: a man, a political plan … and a musket

For AJ Jacobs, living according to the founders’ rules cast a spotlight on the power – and absurdity – of originalist thought

The Guardian - US

‘Loud-mouthed bully’: CS Lewis satirised Oxford peer in secret poems

Exclusive: Chronicles of Narnia author detested HC Wyld so intensely he wrote mocking verse in a copy of his own book

The Guardian - UK

The Bullet by Tom Lee review – a complicated inheritance

This insightful memoir addresses the author and his parents’ struggles with mental illness, and offers a historical account of treatments

The Guardian - UK

Long Island by Colm Tóibín review – the sequel to Brooklyn is a masterclass in subtlety and intelligence

This follow-up, set 20 years on, kicks off with a marriage in crisis and skilfully conveys how blind we are to our own motivations

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‘Modern death is clinical, antiseptic’: the festival that wants to revive the Irish wake

Artists, singers, writers and scholars gather in County Mayo as a ‘clarion call’ to protect the rite of passage they believe is under threat

The Guardian - UK

Rebus review – Richard Rankin is the most irresistible incarnation yet

The all-new Rebus is physical and forceful with a fag in hand and a willingness to crack skulls – but in a world full of shows about troubled, maverick cops, will he possibly be able to stand out?

The Guardian - UK

Sam Taylor: ‘Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read’

The US-based writer and translator on his new novel set in 1930s Vienna, his deep connection with the authors he has worked with and why he always returns to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

The Guardian - UK

Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown

Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism

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The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Claire Messud’s cultural highlights

The novelist on the continuing relevance of Ibsen, the joyful quilt art of Faith Ringgold and where to find British scotch eggs in New York

The Guardian - US

‘She’s in the pantheon now’: Kristi Noem and the politicians who hit self-destruct

The dog-killing South Dakota governor’s VP hopes are in tatters. But she’s not the first politician to flame out with an own goal

The Guardian - US

The Darkness Has Not Overcome: limp pro-Trump piety for a second coming

Cliff Sims wrote Team of Vipers, an early Trump tell-all. His new book is nowhere near as compelling – even the bits he repeats

Woman & Home

Prince Archie 'loves' that his grandpa King Charles 'lives in a castle' - and is 'desperate to visit him'

Young Archie is said to be 'desperate' to visit his grandpa, King Charles

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BookTok is recommending 'explicit' and 'violent' reads to teens warn experts - here are 3 tips for keeping kids safe from mature content

Lots of kids are enjoying the book recommendations they get online, but many are being exposed to what users call 'spicy' reads

Evening Standard

Who is John Rebus, the hero of Ian Rankin’s detective novels?

Over 29 books, turns out we’ve learned quite a lot

The Guardian - UK

Rumbles by Elsa Richardson review – gut reaction

A vivid cultural of digestion, from ancient Greece to All-Bran

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