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The Guardian view on European fiction in translation: still too little, too late

Editorial: Progress has been made. But as the wounds of Brexit heal, literature has a key role to play in building a new entente cordiale

The Guardian - UK

Hyderabad Reads: Reconnecting bibliophiles with books

Hyderabad Reads: Free-for-all book reading community encourages people to drop phones and return to books. 150 readers gather at KBR Park every Sat, 4.30-7pm, with books, snacks, mats. Entry fee ₹45. Curators Quadri & Barik provide literary oasis, 3K+ followers in 4 months.

The Hindu

Compositor E review – traumatised typesetter leaves inky fingerprints all over Shakespeare

Charlie Dupré’s Bruntwood prize longlisted play asks thoughtful questions about who gets to shape history, but lacks a level of intrigue and emotional depth to address them fully

The Guardian - UK

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In brief: Giacometti in Paris; The Stargazers; The Village Idiot – reviews

Michael Peppiatt’s connection to the sculptor informs a fascinating life; Harriet Evans conjures a gripping tale of family and property; and Steve Stern weaves fact and fiction in a story of artistic youth

The Guardian - UK

Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale review – deft tale of female scammers

First published in 1988, the late crime writer’s final novel highlights her sly humour and vivid characterisation

The Guardian - UK

Jobs for the Girls by Ysenda Maxtone Graham review – how the other half worked

Accounts of women’s working lives from the 1950s onwards highlight the upper classes and the eccentric. It’s wonderfully mad, but also irritating

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li review – dialogues with death

Sudden losses are everywhere in the Chinese American writer’s controlled, contemplative stories

The Guardian - UK

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Let’s hear it for England’s royals – and centuries of incompetence, criminality and failure

We’re often told the current crop lack the dignity that monarchy deserves. But what about the losers, adulterers and delusional brutes who came before?

The Guardian - UK

The Times review: how the newspaper of record survived – and thrived

Adam Nagourney’s rigorous reporting shines, though he misses chances to illuminate less well-known parts of the story

The Guardian - US

The big picture: a moment of intimacy for women in prison

Jane Evelyn Atwood spent a decade photographing the life of female inmates, from childbirth to conjugal visits

The Guardian - UK

Inside the secretive Tory 1922 committee which ‘slays leaders'

IT’S a secretive body of Tory backbenchers which hit the headlines as MPs plotted the downfall of Boris Johnson.

The National (Scotland)

On gripping narratives

Each is a powerful experience and we need to be explicitly weaned away every time from this world of suspended disbelief

The Hindu

Cassidy Hutchinson calls Trump ‘dangerous’ and ‘un-American’ and describes fleeing DC after testimony

Former Trump administration aide has emerged as whistleblower

The Independent UK

Readable in one sitting — and other issues

Yet, it is not fashionable, nor is it popular with publishers who think it falls into a chasm between the short story and the novel. Mathematical definitions are not of much help – a novella could be anywhere from ten thousand to forty thousand words. Edgar Allan Poe caught the…

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The Guardian - US

‘Reading is resistance’: students and parents take on DeSantis’s book bans

Florida governor’s constant attacks on the education system have led to an increasing backlash from a wide range of people

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Rebecca F Kuang’s cultural highlights

The bestselling author of Yellowface on prepping for Christopher Nolan films, a touring Mozart biopic and the swaggering young stars of Italian rock

The Guardian - UK

Susie Dent: ‘English has always evolved by mistake’

The queen of Countdown’s dictionary corner on the power of positive language and finding joy in ‘mubble fubbles’

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The Glutton by AK Blakemore review – the man who ate everything

Based on the real-life story of a peasant in revolutionary France, this hallucinatory tale is set to be one of the most remarkable novels of the year

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The Independent UK

Jailhouse letter adds wrinkle in case of mom accused of killing husband, then writing kids' book

Jailhouse writings by a Utah mother accused of killing her husband, then writing a children’s book about death, have led prosecutors to accuse her of trying to tamper with witnesses

Zenger

Lost Letter By Dr. Samuel Johnson Fetches Four Times Estimated Value

Rediscovered after 250 years, the rare letter surprises at auction, selling for £30,000

The Guardian - US

New York Times writer draws ire for blaming Biden’s economy for $78 airport meal

After David Brooks posted a photo of his burger and whiskey, many pointed out the cost of the drink probably pushed up the tab

The Guardian - UK

‘Eating away at democracy’: book bans in US public schools rise by a third in a year

According to a new study by Pen America, there were 3,362 instances of book bans in school classrooms and libraries – with more than 40% of all cases occurring in Florida

The Guardian - UK

Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government

Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered mural at Kent migrant centre to be painted over

Evening Standard

Finishing every Booker Prize novel is ‘impossible’ says judge Robert Webb

‘You finish as many as you can and the other ones you put to one side after a respectable but undisclosed fraction has been read’

The Guardian - UK

Tiger Work by Ben Okri audiobook review – dispatches on a post-apocalyptic world

Ashley Zhangazha narrates a collection of essays, poems and short stories that rail against human inaction in the face of environmental catastrophe

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