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‘Juicy revelations are required’: will Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith memoirs satisfy?

To produce a bestseller, stars must hold back on confessional social media posts and save explosive details for the page

The Guardian - UK

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward review – a gruelling trek through the antebellum south

The two-time winner of the National Book award returns with the tale of an enslaved woman’s journey to Louisiana, rendered in relentless detail

The Guardian - UK

Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel stands in tribute to his defiance of dementia

The late Colombian author didn’t want his final book published, but his sons’ decision to do so is inspiring to writers like me

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Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor review – an epic hymn to a ‘joyously vulgar’ pair

Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars

The Guardian - UK

Boy Parts author Eliza Clark: ‘Everything’s become bland – people just don’t want the slop anymore’

The 29-year-old novelist behind bestsellers ‘Boy Parts’ and ‘Penance’ – and named one of Britain’s future literary stars by Granta – speaks to Adam White about class, criticism and moral puritanism

The Independent UK

John le Carré biographer Adam Sisman: ‘He wanted to make me love him’

Sisman, whose new book on the spy turned novelist chronicles his many extramarital affairs, discusses the morality of biography and how le Carré attempted to seduce him

The Guardian - UK

Three-day cultural festival at Sree Narayana Guru Cultural Complex

Vidyarambham, a book fair, anti-war film festival, folk music, fusion dance, Koodiyattam, Padayani, painting camp, heritage village exhibition, and lecture series will be part of the festival

The Hindu

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On my radar: Es Devlin’s cultural highlights

The set designer and artist on the most extraordinary opera, a gut-wrenching Sudanese-American poet and a writer’s new angle on economics

The Guardian - UK

Book details colorful rise and fall of gambling mecca across river from Cincinnati

Kevin P. Braig, the Judge of the Logan County Court of Common Pleas in Bellefontaine, Ohio, next year will publish “Bookmakers vs. Ball Owners: The Untold Stories of the Birth, Death and Resurrection of Sports Gambling in America.”

Chicago Sun-Times

40 Years Ago, a Legendary Sci-Fi Director Made the Most Underrated Stephen King Thriller

From 'The Shining' to 'Firestarter,' movies based on King's novels have varied wildly in quality. A forgotten adaptation is secretly one of the best.

Inverse

UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity

Exclusive: Department for Education monitoring social media posts from England-based staff for criticism of its policies

The Guardian - UK

Pro-Palestinian views face suppression in US amid Israel-Hamas war

Conferences have been abruptly cancelled, media appearances suppressed and demands made to fire critics of Israeli policies

The Guardian - US

Britney Spears hits out after negative comments about her new memoir

‘Hopefully I can enlighten people who feel particularly alone in most cases or hurt or misunderstood,’ Spears says

The Independent UK

Britney Spears criticises ‘dumb and silly’ press coverage of her memoir

Singer says on social media that she didn’t mean ‘to offend anyone’ with her new tell-all book The Woman in Me

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The game is afoot: BBC goes crazy for Sherlock Holmes creator Conan Doyle with two new shows

Lucy Worsley will examine Arthur Conan Doyle's fraught relationship with his most famous creation, and one of his ghost stories will be dramatised with Kit Harington this Christmas

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought it was me alone’: how the Black British book festival has grown

Now in its third year, the event stepped up its ambitions and aims not only to spotlight authors but to change audiences

The Guardian - UK

Michael Leapman obituary

Other lives: Journalist and author who reported for the Times, the Sun and the Independent and wrote biographies of Rupert Murdoch and Neil Kinnock

The Guardian - UK

Liberation Day by George Saunders audiobook review – funny, poignant and surreal short stories

Prisoners have their brains wiped, a children’s author searches for ideas, and a grandfather rails at his life under a Trumpian leader in this collection, narrated by actors including Tina Fey and Michael McKean

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The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett; West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman; Mrs Sidhu’s Dead and Scone by Suk Pannu; Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming; The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama

Chicago Sun-Times

Middle East war is the price of Netanyahu’s history with Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies made Hamas stronger and weakened those who want a two-state solution for Palestine. Polls show Netanyahu’s support is cratering. The president of the U.S. should stay far away.

The Hindu

Could Cyrus Broacha become an overnight film star?

Cyrus may be seen in a feature film that will probably be released before the year is out, and his wife thought that in case he became an overnight film star, (the likelihood is 7%), he needed to do an image makeover. Her exact words, “You are too ugly and…

The Guardian - UK

Natalie Haynes: ‘I couldn’t stop reading Stephen King - even at the top of the Eiffel Tower’

The author and comedian on drawing comedic inspiration from Juvenal, finding clarity in Homer, and the comic strips she loved as a teenager

The Hindu

Yagna Balaji on her first writers’ retreat

Journalist and writer Yagna Balaji looks back at a five-day programme in Goa

The Independent UK

For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us 'see through lies' in a world divided by walls

Japanese author Haruki Murakami says he is torn by the conflict in Israel since he has Jewish friends but understands that the situation of the Palestinians is dire

The Independent UK

Britney Spears memoir ‘accidentally leaked in Mexico’ ahead of official release date

Spears’s forthcoming memoir is scheduled for release on 24 October

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