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The White Review literary magazine ceases publishing

A statement cited increased costs and removal of UK state funding as the magazine, which featured writers including Paul Murray, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Sally Rooney, is to consider its future

The Guardian - UK

Enter the Water by Jack Wiltshire review – the company of birds

A homeless man journeys from Cambridge to the coast in the Leicester writer’s fresh, funny and serious verse narrative

The Guardian - UK

The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021 by Clinton Heylin review – a fierce kind of love

The Dylan scholar won’t accept any criticism of his idol unless he himself is wielding the sword in his latest exhaustive attempt to understand the ultimate unreliable narrator

The Guardian - UK

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New book alleges Trump's ex-chief of staff's suits smelled 'like a bonfire' from burning papers

A former aide in Donald Trump's White House says chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers so often after the 2020 election that his wife complained his suits smelled “like a bonfire.”

The Independent UK

'Fall of the House of Usher' Review: Mike Flanagan Outdoes Himself Again

For his final Netflix show, Mike Flanagan takes the works of Edgar Allen Poe and uses them to create a monumental horror classic. Read our review of 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'

Inverse

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff review – a succession of absurdities

A forensic holding to account of Rupert Murdoch and the power of Fox News is desperately needed, but this isn’t it

The Guardian - UK

Book Review: Rural Appalachian family’s dreams turn dark in new Ron Rash novel, `The Caretaker’

In a review of “The Caretaker,” Ron Rash’s first novel in seven years, Kendal Weaver writes that Rash has created a compelling drama of young lovers in rural Appalachia in the early 1950s

The Independent UK

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Henry VIII’s favourite fool – a new book draws a portrait of the man the Tudor court loved to laugh at

Henry VIII is notorious for his willingness to lop off the heads of anyone who crossed him, including a string of former friends and intimates –even two of his wives. So you might think that, to keep your head on your shoulders at his court, you would need to have…

The Conversation

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a ‘what if’ classic

The writer’s alternative history – a thriller set in a 1920s US with a huge and thriving Native American population – underlines the range and power of his imagination

The Guardian - UK

Mary Beard: ‘The last thing I’d want is a world in which we all agreed’

The classicist on autocrats ancient and modern, free speech in universities and whether Twitter has been a force for good

The Guardian - UK

A far-right rabble won’t overthrow Ireland’s democracy – but we shouldn’t be complacent

The assortment of conspiracists who blockaded parliament was laughably incoherent. Yet change is coming that could awaken dark forces, says the Irish author Fintan O’Toole

The Guardian - UK

7 gardening books you shouldn’t be without this autumn

Learn new skills and be inspired by a raft of new gardening titles, reviewed by Hannah Stephenson.

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on European fiction in translation: still too little, too late

Editorial: Progress has been made. But as the wounds of Brexit heal, literature has a key role to play in building a new entente cordiale

The Guardian - UK

Bid $80,000 for Jane Austen

First edition masterpieces are up for grabs this week at an antiquarian book auction

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The Hindu

Hyderabad Reads: Reconnecting bibliophiles with books

Hyderabad Reads: Free-for-all book reading community encourages people to drop phones and return to books. 150 readers gather at KBR Park every Sat, 4.30-7pm, with books, snacks, mats. Entry fee ₹45. Curators Quadri & Barik provide literary oasis, 3K+ followers in 4 months.

The Guardian - UK

Compositor E review – traumatised typesetter leaves inky fingerprints all over Shakespeare

Charlie Dupré’s Bruntwood prize longlisted play asks thoughtful questions about who gets to shape history, but lacks a level of intrigue and emotional depth to address them fully

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Giacometti in Paris; The Stargazers; The Village Idiot – reviews

Michael Peppiatt’s connection to the sculptor informs a fascinating life; Harriet Evans conjures a gripping tale of family and property; and Steve Stern weaves fact and fiction in a story of artistic youth

The Guardian - UK

Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale review – deft tale of female scammers

First published in 1988, the late crime writer’s final novel highlights her sly humour and vivid characterisation

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The Guardian - UK

Jobs for the Girls by Ysenda Maxtone Graham review – how the other half worked

Accounts of women’s working lives from the 1950s onwards highlight the upper classes and the eccentric. It’s wonderfully mad, but also irritating

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li review – dialogues with death

Sudden losses are everywhere in the Chinese American writer’s controlled, contemplative stories

The Guardian - UK

Let’s hear it for England’s royals – and centuries of incompetence, criminality and failure

We’re often told the current crop lack the dignity that monarchy deserves. But what about the losers, adulterers and delusional brutes who came before?

The Guardian - US

The Times review: how the newspaper of record survived – and thrived

Adam Nagourney’s rigorous reporting shines, though he misses chances to illuminate less well-known parts of the story

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: a moment of intimacy for women in prison

Jane Evelyn Atwood spent a decade photographing the life of female inmates, from childbirth to conjugal visits

The National (Scotland)

Inside the secretive Tory 1922 committee which ‘slays leaders'

IT’S a secretive body of Tory backbenchers which hit the headlines as MPs plotted the downfall of Boris Johnson.

The Hindu

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Each is a powerful experience and we need to be explicitly weaned away every time from this world of suspended disbelief

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