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Sidney Blumenthal joins Guardian US as a Regular Columnist

Guardian US has appointed award-winning journalist Sidney Blumenthal as a regular columnist.

The Guardian - UK

What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells review – Shakespearean speculation

An eminent scholar tries to imagine the great playwright’s character and tastes. But can we really know the bard?

The Guardian - UK

Autumn reads: the unmissable new books to hunker down with

From spine-chilling short stories to philisophical memoirs and historical fiction, Alex Peake-Tomkinson picks the most exciting new books to tuck into this Autumn

Evening Standard

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Looking round a school library, I saw something I can’t get out of my mind

I was shocked to find a book for children whose parents are in prison. But I’m glad someone had the compassion to write it

The Guardian - UK

Drew Barrymore dropped from hosting gig after resuming talk show despite writer’s strike

Barrymore has been removed as host for this year’s ceremony, a day after her talk show taped its first episode since the Hollywood writers strike began

The Independent UK

Elon Musk shares private ‘role-play’ photo of Amber Heard

‘I guess I could be called a geek for someone who can also be called a hot chick,’ Ms Heard said in the new Elon Musk biography

The Independent UK

Argentina shuts down a publisher that sold books praising the Nazis. One person has been arrested

Argentina’s Federal Police have shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person as part of what authorities characterized as a “historic seizure” of Nazi propaganda

The Independent UK

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"The Other Black Girl": Work is a horror

There are no jump scares in Hulu's new thriller, but the dread of being Black in a mainly white industry is real

Salon

Brett Kavanaugh accuser to release memoir about her legendary testimony before Senate

Christine Blasey Ford was thrust into the national spotlight after coming forward with allegations that Mr Kavanaugh had assaulted her at a high school party in Maryland in 1982

The Independent UK

Blessed are the cheesemakers: University of Leeds acquires oldest surviving book about British cheese

16th-century ‘pamflyt compiled of cheese’ offers a comprehensive survey of British varieties – and their dubious medical benefits

The Guardian - UK

Republican senator reads explicit passages from LGBT+ memoirs in misleading stunt at book ban hearing

Neither of the books are shelved in library children’s sections in John Kennedy’s state

The Independent UK

Tobias Hill obituary

Novelist and poet who was intrigued by what lay beneath the surface of things and whose fiction often had London at its heart

The Guardian - UK

Porn addicts, vicars, madmen and murderers: Sarah Ogilvie on the Oxford English Dictionary’s unlikely writers

In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth

The Guardian - UK

Christine Blasey Ford to release memoir detailing Kavanaugh testimony

Book, to be published in March, will share ‘riveting new details’ on lead-up to Senate testimony and ‘its overwhelming aftermath’

The Guardian - US

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The Guardian - US

Wildcat review – Ethan Hawke directs daughter in mediocre literary biopic

Maya Hawke makes for an unconvincing Flannery O’Connor in an obvious, misfiring drama that takes big creative swings but mostly misses

The Guardian - UK

The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk review – ‘PC gone mad’ revisited

A befuddled takedown of progressive thought

The Guardian - AU

My Brilliant Career to be adapted into a pop-rock musical as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2024 lineup

‘Joyful’ new show to cap off MTC season also featuring Pulitzer-winning plays Topdog/Underdog and English, and a ‘fresh take’ on A Streetcar Named Desire

The Independent UK

Grimes says Elon Musk was ‘clueless’ about why she was upset by C-section photo

Revelation comes from a new biography about the Tesla founder

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The Independent UK

Drew Barrymore dropped as National Book Awards host after resuming talk show despite strike

Barrymore has been removed as host for this year’s ceremony, a day after her talk show taped its first episode since the Hollywood writers strike began

The Guardian - UK

Beasts of England by Adam Biles review – Animal Farm for the post-Brexit era

This lively sequel to Orwell’s farmyard satire skewers the dysfunction of the past decade, from sleaze and xenophobia to the pandemic and fake news

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Weirdo by Sara Pascoe and The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks.

Chicago Sun-Times

Drew Barrymore dropped as National Book Awards host after her talk show resumes during strike

The TV host has resumed production of ‘The Drew Barrymore Show,’ drawing the ire of striking members of the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild.

Chicago Sun-Times

Giannoulias, Durbin push back against book bans at Capitol Hill hearing as GOP senators urge parents to ‘speak up’

The heated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, chaired by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., with testimony from Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, put on display the national clash over library book bans.

The Independent UK

National Book Awards drop Drew Barrymore as host after her talk show resumes despite strike

The National Book Awards have dropped Drew Barrymore as the host for this year’s ceremony, a day after her talk show taped its first episode since the Hollywood writers strike began

The Guardian - US

‘Authoritarian regimes ban books’: Democrats raise alarm at Senate hearing

Spotlight on partisan split of issue as Republicans push for works to be taken out of schools and libraries

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