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Capturing the Solar Eclipse: Meet the Fashion Photographers Obsessed with Sunglasses

As we get caught up in total eclipse 2024 fever we explore the intersection of celestial phenomena and fashion photography through the stylish lens of sunglasses.

Fashion Times · Apr 8, 2024

'Breakfast At Tiffany's' Copy On Sale In New York For $1.5 Million

A diamond-covered edition of Truman Capote's seminal novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is on sale for $1.5 million to mark the centenary of the author's birth.

International Business Times · Apr 7, 2024

Stephen Mitchell obituary

Other lives: Leading scholar of the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine periods in modern-day Turkey

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

A Necessary Kindness by Juno Carey review – demystifying abortion: an insider’s account of its long and painful history

Eight years working in abortion provision led the author to make this frank and moving case for safeguarding reproductive freedoms – and ending the culture of secrecy and guilt

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

Michael Magee: ‘There’s a disbelief at how I’ve ended up’

The Belfast novelist on moving between memoir and fiction in his prize-winning debut, turning down a spot on Granta’s best young British novelists list and why Lords of the Rings was his ‘gateway drug’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2024

Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published

The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2024

The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas review – fiendishly gripping

Dark sexual secrets and lies drive an ingenious and wickedly funny tale of meltdown on a Greek honeymoon

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2024

‘The crime writer crime writers read’: Garry Disher, author of 60 books and finding fame in his 70s

The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 5, 2024

Kate Beckinsale Reads a Book About Grief as She Continues to Document Her Prolonged Hospital Stay

The actress has been dealing with an unspecified health issue for nearly a month.

Marie Claire · Apr 5, 2024

Spring cleaning: Books are trash too

I used to hold on to books as if they were cash, before realizing that all books are not created equally

Salon · Apr 5, 2024