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Willie Nelson looks back on 7 decades of songwriting in new book 'Energy Follows Thought'

At age 90, Willie Nelson is looking back on the songs he's written across seven decades

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie expected to testify at stabbing trial in January

Alleged attacker Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, following incident in Chautauqua, New York, that left Rushdie blind in one eye

The Guardian - UK

Book Review: Broad themes meet niche topics in Fadipe's debut novel 'The Sun Sets in Singapore'

Kehinde Fadipe’s debut novel, “The Sun Sets in Singapore,” follows three expat Nigerian women to highlight the specific struggles that come with their race, gender and backgrounds — particularly in an upscale and competitive environment like Singapore

The Independent UK

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The Buccaneers on Apple TV+ review: Bridgertonised Wharton adaptation wraps a feminist fury in silk and lace

Even Whartonites might have cause to cheer at this incisive reworking of her final novel

Evening Standard

White Holes: Inside the Horizon review – Carlo Rovelli turns time on its head

In his latest brief but dazzling journey to the edges of understanding, the theoretical physicist takes us into the heart of a black hole and out the other side

The Guardian - UK

The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen

How the myth of the male genius shields our cultural heroes from scrutiny

The Walrus

Baumgartner by Paul Auster review – amiable aimlessness

The celebrated writer’s new novel, about a widowed septuagenarian, opens strongly but can’t resolve the vast number of threads it starts to spin

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian view on the British Library’s digital archive: a new life for Chaucer

Editorial: The latest collection to go online reveals the six centuries of influence of a medieval giant who predated the printed press

The Guardian - UK

Welcome to the golden age of celebrity memoirs, where authenticity sells

Britney's bombshell new memoir is the ultimate proof that performative radical honesty is in vogue right now, says Alex Peake-Tomkinson

Evening Standard

Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – a devilishly brilliant hidden gem

First published in 1973, Brooke’s dark tale of an upper-class coming-of-age is full of the kind of truth only fiction can deliver

The Guardian - UK

The Mirror and the Road: Conversations With William Boyd by Alistair Owen – review

A superfan’s series of interviews with the author veers perilously close to hagiography but its mix of enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge proves unexpectedly illuminating

The Guardian - UK

Yeats’ play on sale for £125,000 – thanks to message from the dead

A 1924 seance has solved the mystery surrounding a signed copy of the dramatist’s first play

The Guardian - UK

Laura Bates: ‘The algorithmically facilitated mass radicalisation of young men is lads’ mags on steroids’

The feminist activist and author on writing her first fantasy novel, dealing with online death threats and why the new generation of teenagers gives her hope

The Guardian - UK

‘We didn’t half have a laugh’: writers Nina Stibbe and Deborah Moggach on living together, breakups and needy cockapoos

Stibbe’s warm and witty new book describes the year she lodged with Moggach, the author of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Guardian - UK

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In brief: Listen; The Temple of Fortuna; Poor Things – review

Novelist Michel Faber turns his hand to a captivating study of music; a thrilling conclusion to a historical fiction trilogy set in Rome; and a timely reissue of Alasdair Gray’s classic

The Guardian - UK

Letters reveal the dispute that pushed poet Thomas Chatterton to the brink

The romantic writer took his own life aged just 17 after a row with Horace Walpole

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: Halloween on the subway

Every Halloween for 20 years, Seymour Licht went underground to photograph New York’s ghouls and monsters, on their way to and from parties

The National (Scotland)

Poetry festival’s no holds barred approach is paying off

CREATED in the middle of the Covid pandemic, Scotland’s newest poetry festival was launched in a spirit of defiance.

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Samantha Harvey: ‘I like Alien as much as anybody else. But I see this novel as space pastoral’

The novelist who’s been likened to Virginia Woolf on her new book set on the International Space Station, how insomnia has changed the way she thinks – and her fascination with time and faith

The Guardian - US

Bayard Rustin review: fine portrait of a giant of protest and politics

Michael G Long edits essays from 23 authors on the great civil rights advocate, newly in the spotlight thanks to the Obamas

The Guardian - UK

Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – an upper-class monster

A timely reissue for this gem from the archives, in which an ex-public schoolboy makes a gruesome fall from grace

The Guardian - UK

Hunt on for book containing Wilkie Collins’s criticism of friend Dickens

Collins’s notes on his collaborator’s ‘weakest book’ and ‘astonishingly bad’ work were sold at auction in 1890

The Guardian - UK

How common is plagiarism in the publishing industry?

The shadow chancellor’s new book has come under scrutiny for lifting passages of text from other sources without acknowledgment. Academic writers explore how this can happen

The Hindu

Rangoli, kite flying, book release and much more to mark beginning of ‘Karnataka Sambhrama’

Drawing rangolis and flying kites in the Kannada flag colours of yellow and red, lighting ‘Kannada Jyothi’, releasing books, and organising various competitions will be part of the State government’s yearlong programmes that will commence on November 1, 2023, to mark the golden jubilee celebrations of the renaming the Mysuru…

The Conversation

Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher: an incoherent mess of references that fails to honour Edgar Allan Poe

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