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One Day on Netflix review: Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod shine in this gorgeous take on David Nicholls' novel

Despite its flaws this is a perfect, sunny watch for gloomy February

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2024

Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver review – pointed tales of black America from a talent taken young

These precocious literary fragments hint at the greatness the author might have achieved had she not died at 22

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2024

Odisha CM releases coffee-table book ‘Shree Jagannatha’, Lord Of The Universe

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik releases coffee-table book on Lord Jagannatha at World Odia Language Conference, emphasizing the uniqueness of the deity.

The Hindu · Feb 5, 2024

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"Illustration is the artwork of the people," says The Folio Society's newest artist

How Zoë van Dijk's art brought The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet to life.

Creative Bloq · Feb 5, 2024

Prince Harry didn't want son Archie to learn this one pretty royal thing (and the Queen did it regularly)

The Duke of Sussex made it clear he didn't want his son Prince Archie, to follow in the Queen's footsteps, royal author claims

GoodToKnow · Feb 5, 2024

Yang Jun: Dissident Chinese-Australian Writer Handed Suspended Death Sentence

Yang -- who also goes by the pen name Yang Hengjun -- was born in China in 1965 and became an Australian citizen in the early 2000s. He grew a readership in exile as the author of novels that drew on his experiences in his homeland.

International Business Times · Feb 5, 2024

Michelle Obama wins second Grammy Award for best audio book

Former first lady Michelle Obama wins her second Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for The Light We Carry: Overcoming...

In brief: Piglet; Free Play; A Spell of Good Things – review

A bride’s wedding day preparations go awry in a propulsive page-turner; a violinist’s inspirational guide to everyday creativity; and a moving Dickensian tale of two citizens in Nigeria

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld review – sordid, troubling… sublime

The International Booker prize winner adds to his reputation for transgressive brilliance with this tale of a vet and a client’s teenage daughter, delivered in cyclone-force prose

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

Christopher Priest obituary

Acclaimed novelist best known for The Prestige whose large body of work never fitted into any particular literary mould

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

Tarek El Moussa shares shocking gang fight experience and transformation

Discover shocking stories from Tarek El Moussa's troubled past in his new book. Learn how he overcame adversity and found success in real estate and life.

Pity by Andrew McMillan review – an excavation of identity and collective memory

The poet’s debut novel explores Barnsley’s mining past and is at its sharpest on notions of community and renewed purpose

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

The Handmaid’s Tale review – Poul Ruders’s opera shows Atwood’s novel has lost none of its relevance

While it shies away from some of the brutality of the book, the ENO’s uncluttered staging gives space to the sharply drawn characters and revels in sumptuous atonality

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

What a legendary historian tells us about the contempt for today’s working class

A century after his birth, EP Thompson’s empathy with those facing scorn and condescension is more relevant than ever

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

Writer Kerry Hudson: ‘I grew up with the narrative that working-class mothers were the worst’

The author on following her acclaimed debut Lowborn with a memoir about motherhood, why her next two books will be thrillers, and the power of toast to bring cheer

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera review – the charge sheet against rule Britannia

In this ambitious sequel to Empireland, the journalist travels far and wide to examine the legacy of British imperialism, piecing together an important rebuttal of revisionist narratives

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – review

The rise of rightwing populists has sparked renewed interest in the political philosopher’s writing on totalitarianism, and Lyndsey Stonebridge’s timely biography is compelling and original

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

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The Guardian - AU · Feb 3, 2024

‘Poetic’, ‘fearless’, ‘a creative triumph’: the best Australian books out in February

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

Patrick Joyce: ‘The history of peasants is one of their silence or being silenced’

The academic and author on the lessons we can learn from those who work the land, acquiring a second career in his 70s – and how he ‘dialogues’ with the spirit of Seamus Heaney

The Hindu · Feb 3, 2024

Pages from the past: SCERT unveils digital repository of old school textbooks

The digital archives are home to 1,258 textbooks of classes I to XII, which comes to 1.5 lakh digitised pages. These books can be accessed from anywhere in the world, downloaded and printed too.

The Hindu · Feb 3, 2024

ILFK will be held next year too: Saji Cherian

The maiden edition of the International Literature Festival of Kerala, which saw more than 100 sessions attended by 500-odd writers, critics and social activists from the country and outside, concluded on Saturday.

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

American Fiction review – satisfyingly prickly satire on race and hypocrisy in the literary world

Jeffrey Wright excels as a struggling Black novelist who dashes off a blaxploitation potboiler and hits the jackpot in Cord Jefferson’s Oscar-nominated comedy drama

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

Where to start with: Gertrude Stein

The modernist author was born 150 years ago but her writing still feels transgressive – here are some good places to begin

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

‘Secure, affordable homes are the stuff of fiction’: how young writers are responding to the UK housing crisis

From Hunger Games-style viewings to greedy landlords and grim flatshares, young people aren’t just coping with a broken property market, they are writing about it

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