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Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness

Two Texas bookstores and three national bookseller associations file suit over House Bill 900, which requires private booksellers to rate books on appropriateness, and bans “sexually explicit” material from libraries.

The Texas Tribune

American Horror Story: Delicate — next episode, cast, trailer, everything we know about season 12

American Horror Story: Delicate features an all-star cast. Here's what we know about AHS season 12.

WhatToWatch

Why novels about time travel are hot now

If something about how we've been experiencing time feels messed up to you, you're not alone

Salon

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Carol Smith obituary

Other lives: Literary agent who used her publishing expertise to write her own bestselling thrillers

The Guardian - UK

‘We hid our stock in case we were raided’: Scotland’s pioneering LGBTQ+ bookshop

Opened two years after the country legalised ‘homosexual acts’, Lavender Menace made a huge impact. Now it has opened a public queer books archive

The Guardian - UK

Book Review: Still foolin’ — Richard Russo revisits upstate New York in third novel

Richard Russo returns to what used to be North Bath, New York, in “Somebody’s Fool,” the third novel in his “Fool” series

The Independent UK

Young people aren’t reading books enough. Here’s one way to change that.

Most young people rarely, if ever, read for fun. By linking art with reading, young people can learn to love both — and develop their knowledge of the world.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down

I don’t choose books based on the aggregate rating as if they are skincare products, nor do I think any critical verdict is the final one

The Guardian - UK

Good Omens 2 cast on Heaven and Hell and everything in between: “the most radical thing I’ve seen on TV”

A cast of old and new faces returns for part two of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed fantasy series

Evening Standard

Shankari Chandran wins 2023 Miles Franklin award for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Set around a culture war in a nursing home, Chandran’s third novel has won Australia’s biggest literary prize – and yet, she says, she was almost too afraid to write it

The Guardian - AU

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett review – a lesson in how to kiss and tell

Patchett’s new novel, in which a mother tells her daughters about her early romance with a famous actor, is a gentle but revealing meditation on lost love and destiny

The Guardian - UK

Backlash over sex education book suggests Australia has a long way to go, Senate inquiry hears

Author Jess Hill tells inquiry into consent laws almost half of children aged nine to 16 are being regularly exposed to porn, with damaging effect

The Guardian - AU

Travelling unfettered across 10 countries in Asia by road

Group of four travel 500,000 km across India & 10 countries in Asia to research little-known seers. Supported by friends & groups, they journey to find unified whole. Unfettered travel is about discovering every being is part of one. Book to be written in English & translated into multiple languages.

The Hindu

Jill Duggar Dillard Carried Her Book Around In A Plastic Bag While She Figured Out What She Wanted To Say About Duggar Family Drama

Jill Duggar Dillard seems to have spent a lot of time figuring out what to tell everyone about her family in her new book.

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The Guardian - UK

Jim Powell obituary

Other lives: Writer and historian whose success as a novelist began when he was 61

Marie Claire

'Ripe' Is Our August Book Club Pick

Read an excerpt of Sarah Rose Etter's new novel, here, then dive in with us throughout the month.

The Guardian - AU

Miles Franklin 2023: a guide to the shortlist of Australia’s biggest literary prize

Six authors are in the running for Australia’s most prestigious book award, which will be announced on Tuesday. Here’s your primer

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s some sort of cosmic joke’: Tracy Sorensen wrote a book about surviving cancer. Now it has returned

Sorensen’s new novel The Vitals is narrated by her own organs during her cancer treatment a decade ago. But as she prepared to promote it, she found herself ‘back in cancer land’

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The Times of India

Zorian Cross's debut novel 'The Yogi Witch: Bloodlines and Legacies' launched in Delhi

Recently at Depot 48 in Delhi, we learnt about the magical side of reality during a fascinating talk between Zorian Cross and Sumiran Annamaria Kashyap at the launch of the former's debut novel 'The Yogi Witch: Bloodlines and Legacies'.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Sadiq Khan’s ‘Say Maate’ campaign is part of an ugly war on human exchange

THERE’s been a dusty response so far to “Say Maate!”, the Mayor’s exciting new initiative to stamp out sexism in public spaces. The gist is that when a bloke catches his friend saying something off-colour to a woman, he reprimands him with a reproachful “Maate!”. The friend, abashed, sinks into…

Evening Standard

Freddie Forsyth compares Met Police to ‘Stasi hounding an old codger’ in speed fine row

The Day of the Jackal writer has been hauled before a court after an administrative error — which he insists the Met is to blame for

Inverse

'Good Omens' Season 2 Goes Beyond The Source Material: "We Knew There Was More Story"

Stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen talk about their ineffable chemistry, Easter eggs, and 'Doctor Who.'

The Guardian - UK

Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O’Regan review – eloquent tale of trauma and absence

An unflinching debut novel set in west Ireland explores the pull of place and duty

The Guardian - UK

Kit by Megan Barker review – roads not taken

This bittersweet debut fuses prose and poetry as a narrator struggles with a troubled friend and her own life of lost freedoms

The Independent UK

Cheri Pies death: Author of ‘pioneering’ lesbian parenting handbook dies of cancer at 73

Cheri Pies broke new ground for gay mothers when she published ‘Considering Parenthood: A Workbook for Lesbians’ in 1985

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