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On my radar: Alan Cumming’s cultural highlights

The actor and writer on South African gospel reworkings of house classics, a beautiful Scottish LGBTQ+ magazine, and his obsession with pressure washing

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2024

WhatsApp novelists use messaging app to write and sell books in Zimbabwe

Emerging authors and eager readers are finding more accessible and affordable ways to get their literary fix.

Al Jazeera · Aug 31, 2024

Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – brilliant tales of beasts

Greek myths inspire a masterly short-story collection that takes in ghosts, gods and meditations on mortality

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2024

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Five Great Reads: Pablo Escobar’s hippos, manscaping, and Gillian Anderson on collecting secret fantasies

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Guardian - AU · Aug 30, 2024

Moms for Liberty goes to war with New York school over five library books

Far-right group Moms for Liberty is fighting to immediately remove five “obscene” library books from an Upstate New York school, insisting they are simply too dangerous to keep on the shelves

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2024

Major publishers sue Florida over ‘unconstitutional’ school book ban

Hundreds of titles from Judy Blume to Mark Twain purged from school libraries following rightwing challenges

The Guardian - US · Aug 30, 2024

Author Robin DiAngelo accused of plagiarism over doctoral thesis

Complaint brought against White Fragility author over passages in 2004 paper, but some suspect political motives

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

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Starve Acre review: "Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith headline a chilling and unnerving horror movie"

Total Film · Aug 30, 2024

Prisoner whose escape in a dog crate became a movie dies behind bars

John Manard escaped with the help of a woman leading a dog training rehabilitation program at his prison

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2024

Alfonso Cuaron Just Mastered a Tricky New Genre: The Erotic Thriller

Cate Blanchett is phenomenal in Alfonso Cuarón’s first foray into TV. Read our review of Apple TV+'s 'Disclaimer.'

Inverse · Aug 30, 2024

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold review – first staging of le Carré classic is a hot ticket

This adaptation of the cold war spy thriller elegantly compresses the narrative and boasts star-making performances

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

“Their story, though well-known, still beguiles”: Mike Cormack’s Everything Under The Sun: The Complete Guide To Pink Floyd

Academic delivers trainspotterly detail with a personal touch in his in-depth analysis of the band’s work and achievements

Louder · Aug 30, 2024

The best translated fiction – review roundup

Mammoth by Eva Baltasar; Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes; The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem; Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

Audiobook of the week: On Women by Susan Sontag – clear-eyed wisdom

A polemical collection of the writer’s 70s journalism on feminism read by the voice actor Laurel Lefkow is just as relevant today

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

Matt Haig: ‘I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind’

The author on how AA Milne and Emily Dickinson helped him through illness, being inspired by Stephen King and why he thinks Graham Greene is one of the best

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

Want by Gillian Anderson review – let me be your fantasy

The star’s compendium of X-rated female wish-fulfilment makes for compelling, if not entirely candid, reading

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

In the footsteps of DH Lawrence: across the Alps from Germany to Italy

More than a century on, the route from Konstanz to Como across lakes and Swiss mountains must also contend with traffic, but it still inspires a novel

Bored Panda · Aug 29, 2024

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

Unfamous photos of famous writers that gives us a glimpse into their lives. The post 24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2024

Margaret Jones obituary

Other lives: Illustrator of Welsh folk tales, including a memorable version of The Mabinogion

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2024

Trump threatens to throw Mark Zuckerberg in prison for life in new book

Former president warns the Meta CEO he is being watched closely and will ‘spend the rest of his life in prison’ if he attempts to interfere in the 2024 election

The Guardian - AU · Aug 29, 2024

Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane review – atmospheric stories linked by a murderer’s crimes

McFarlane’s lyrical follow-up to The Sun Walks Down explores the reverberations of violence, and the stories we tell about crime

GamesRadar · Aug 29, 2024

Stray Bullets creator David Lapham makes his EC Comics debut with a gruesome sci-fi shocker

'Ray Gun' is a western-themed horror

The National (Scotland) · Aug 29, 2024

These are the top fringe events at the SNP's 2024 conference

THE SNP’s annual conference is set to run from Friday to Sunday in Edinburgh with a major focus on how the party moves forward following a huge…

The Conversation · Aug 29, 2024

Rick Turner and Steve Biko were leading liberation thinkers in 1970s South Africa – why their ideas still matter

Steve Biko was undoubtedly the most influential South African liberation struggle theorist and activist of the 1970s. Rick Turner was arguably among the most effectual white anti-apartheid activists of the era. Biko espoused black consciousness while Turner was a Marxist philosopher. Biko (30) was murdered by apartheid police in 1977.…

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2024

Fall is bringing fantasy (and romantasy), literary fiction, politics and Taylor-ed book offerings

Not even a presidential election is likely to slow the wave of fantasy novels that has been building the past few years

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