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Toxic by Sarah Ditum review – a decade of misogyny, from Britney to Paris Hilton

These nine feminist essays about female celebrities of the 00s expose the casual sexism of the era and the way it shaped ordinary women’s lives

The Guardian - UK

Sam Lansky: the ghostwriter who helped bring Britney’s troubled story to the page

American journalist and author Sam Lansky has reportedly helped to shape Britney’s globally anticipated memoir, ‘The Woman in Me’. Having written a book about his turbulent teen years and interviewed A-listers from Adele to Madonna, he’s well placed to shepherd the star’s story, writes Annabel Nugent

The Independent UK

Anthony Holden obituary

Journalist, author and poker player who worked for the Sunday Times and became music critic of the Observer

The Guardian - UK

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In brief: One Woman Show; Normal Women; Inciting Joy – reviews

A spry story of art’s interplay with power; Philippa Gregory charts 900 years of weavers, nuns and housewives; and Ross Gay waxes lyrical in a rambling collection of essays

The Guardian - UK

Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop review – a journey into the slave trade

The Senegalese-French writer’s fictionalised account of a real 18th-century naturalist’s experiences in Senegal serves as a compelling critique of colonial violence

The Guardian - UK

‘A call to action to love ourselves’: how women in their 50s can leave the shadows

As roles and circumstances change, women in their 50s can look inwards and find a deep acceptance of themselves

The Guardian - UK

‘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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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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.”

Inverse

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.

The Guardian - UK

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 - US

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

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The Independent UK

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 Guardian - US

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

Evening Standard

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

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

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