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Ian McEwan criticises hiring of ‘sensitivity readers’ looking for offensive material in manuscripts

Booker-winning novelist describes the process of screening out things that might offend readers as ‘mass hysterias’ and ‘moral panics’ that ‘sweep through populations every now and then’

The Guardian - UK

Paul Harding, Justin Torres are among National Book Award finalists

Paul Harding’s Maine-based historical novel “This Other Eden,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian “Chain-Gang All-Stars” and Justin Torres' multi-generational “Blackouts” are among the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards

The Independent UK

Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah among National Book Award finalists

Winners from 25 finalists across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature will be announced in November

The Guardian - US

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‘Our language is real’: jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson’s new book is an education in Black communication

Historically Black Phrases breaks down sayings and metaphors created and popularized by the community, giving it due credit

The Guardian - US

Pinarayi releases M.K. Sanoo’s complete works

At a glittering function in Kochi, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan released a compilation of literary critic M.K. Sanoo's complete works. Mr. Sanoo expressed gratitude to those who had shown their love and appreciation. Mr. Vijayan praised Mr. Sanoo's unparalleled personality and contributions to society, noting the collective works are a…

The Hindu

Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks?

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

The Walrus

A murdered Argentinian writer’s comic finds a new audience – and far-right haters

Héctor Oesterheld and his family were murdered under the military dictatorship. As Netflix adapts his beloved El Eternauta, his literary legacy is dragged into the culture wars

The Guardian - US

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Caine prize won by Woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene’s ‘visceral tale’

The Senegalese duo’s A Soul of Small Places draws on Diallo’s experiences of gender-based violence, set against a backdrop of African cosmology in which spirits and humans coexist

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

JK Rowling, as Robert Galbraith, is back with a cult classic, while elsewhere past crimes make for gripping reads

The Guardian - UK

Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy review – masterly alternative life of Nora Barnacle

What if James Joyce and his great love had split up at the start? Morrissy’s reimagining is a stylistic tour de force that the man himself would have surely admired

The Guardian - UK

Nobel laureate urges Polish opposition to commit to progressive causes

Exclusive: Olga Tokarczuk’s comments come in rare political interview two weeks before potentially pivotal election

The Guardian - UK

Warning over unconscious bias against working-class pupils in English schools

Social mobility expert says mindset in many schools requires children to be ‘middle-class clones’ to succeed

The Guardian - UK

Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world

The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant

The Guardian - UK

Where the Supreme Court stands on banning books

Efforts to ban books in public schools and public libraries reached an all-time high in 2022 and show few signs of abating for 2023, according to the American Library Association.

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In Kokandy’s ‘American Psycho,’ the star slays, but the songs are bloody awful

The ’80s-set musical’s characters start out loathsome and just stay that way.

The Independent UK

Book Review: Romance strikes in 'Maybe Once, Maybe Twice' with quirky lines and an epic soundtrack

On Maggie Vine’s 30th birthday, she makes a marriage pact with her handsome best friend

The Independent UK

Book Review: Jo Nesbø offers a fresh twist on a coming-of-age horror novel in ’The Night House'

Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, best known for his “Harry Hole” series of crime novels, is out with a slim horror novel that is more than what it seems

The Independent UK

Book Review: Poet recalls stormy life growing up Rastafari in Jamaica and her struggle to break free

Safiya Sinclair is a Jamaican-born poet who has written a memoir called “How to Say Babylon.”

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Celebrated Syrian author, poet and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa dies aged 59

Khalifa was one of Syria’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, though his six novels were banned in the country

The Guardian - UK

Did you solve it? Puzzles you can do in the pub

The answers to today’s bam-booze-lers

The Guardian - AU

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood review – a masterful novel of quiet force

Set at a rural Australian monastery, with a minimal plot and a looming climate catastrophe, this is a book of introspection – and of despair

The Hindu

Here are the big stories from Karnataka today

Karnataka Today newsletter: Bengaluru Civil Society groups demand repeal of order limiting protests to Freedom Park

Inverse

You Need to Watch the Best Sci-Fi Epic of the Decade on Netflix ASAP

This 2021 blockbuster is one of the best sci-fi films of the 21st century. Now that it's streaming on Netflix, here's why Inverse recommends that you check out Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune' ASAP.

The Guardian - UK

Bobby Joseph becomes first person of colour appointed UK comics laureate

Comic book author and graphic novelist wants to spend time in the role tackling industry’s lack of diversity

The Independent UK

Black History Month: Books black authors want all children to read

Sir Lenny Henry, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and more share their top picks from black authors.

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