Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Books

The Reservation: Read it for the delicious people, not the prose

It did feel cruel, and not a little unfair, to give up all hope of good prose as early as page four, but that’s where it happened. It was right there in capital letters: “IT’S GRISHAM DAY, PEOPLE.” As in John Grisham, whose looming visit to Aunt Orsa’s — the…

Evening Standard

Will Heated Rivalry Season 2 Stay Faithful To The Books? The Show's Creator Weighed In

In Jacob Tierney we trust.

Cinemablend

Black-owned bookstores reach record numbers, but many still struggle

A new report shows the number has grown from just 54 in 2014 to more than 300 today.

Axios

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Captured by Islamic State, Amera began writing letters to her lost brother: ‘I wrote because I was scared, but also because I have hope’

Amera last saw Ali in 2014, the day IS arrived at their village in northern Iraq. Now living in Australia, she’s published years of unsent letters

The Guardian - AU

'Shows people's desire to keep Jamaat out': Taslima Nasrin says BNP's Bangladesh poll landslide not due to party's 'popularity'

NEW DELHI: Author Taslima Nasrin, who has lived in exile since being forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 over her novel "Lajja," said on Saturday that the sweeping victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the recent elections reflects the public’s determination to prevent Islamist radicals from coming to…

The Times of India

A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello review – a profound exploration of the inner life

How are we to account for things that lie outside ordinary language? A woman’s emotions are precisely observed in a novel that brilliantly captures what it means to be human

The Guardian - UK

A World Appears by Michael Pollan: Grasping consciousness proves quite the head trip

There are, it seems, three big questions still unanswered by science. One: why is there something rather than nothing (the case for God as creator); the second: how did life evolve from dead matter; and third, what is consciousness (and what is it for). It’s the third that Michael Pollan…

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

The Tell author sued over claims she stole stories of sexual abuse for best-seller

A woman is suing Amy Griffin claiming author stole descriptions of abuse she suffered

The Independent UK

John F. Kennedy Jr. Resisted "Difficult" Call to Prince Harry and Prince William Despite Carolyn's Wishes

JFK Jr. said "he didn't know them and thought that their situations greatly differed."

Marie Claire

The play that changed my life: ‘There were cheers, screams and gasps at our story – we couldn’t believe it!’

Dramatising Onjali Q Raúf’s refugee tale The Boy at the Back of the Class brought cheers and boos from a young audience – showing they can handle the truth

The Guardian - UK

Disney+'s new sci-fi show gets a long-awaited trailer, and could be huge

The Testaments promises much pain

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott

Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on 25 years of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses: a love story that changed an industry

Editorial: Publishing has failed to deliver on its promises after Black Lives Matter. True diversity requires a lasting shift

The Guardian - UK

António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments

With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83

Author of more than 30 novels, including Fado Alexandrino and The Inquisitors’ Manual, was widely seen as one of the most important voices in modern Portuguese literature

The Guardian - UK

From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now

AI ‘twins’, Mar-a-Lago lookalikes, Melania impersonator conspiracies … doubles proliferate in today’s culture – and nowhere more so than in a series of unsettling new novels that draw on a rich gothic tradition to tap into our paranoid times

The Guardian - AU

Bob Carr: ‘I really thought repeatedly, “Bob, the joke is on you”’

The former NSW premier and Australian foreign minister on losing the love of his life, and figuring out how to go on

The Guardian - AU

Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’

Amy Wallace spent years helping Giuffre write her life story. Now she reflects on what the survivor would have thought of the release of the Epstein files

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Saba Sams: ‘I’ve no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again’

The Send Nudes author on rereading Lorrie Moore, finding Dodie Smith at the right time, and the enduring brilliance of Muriel Spark

The Independent UK

Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones shortlisted for author of the year at British Book Awards

Authors Freida McFadden, Richard Osman and Mick Herron are also nominated for the award

The Guardian - UK

The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski review – a delicious comfort read

A decaying gothic mansion tells the story of the family who once lived there, in this pitch-perfect debut of disappearances, betrayal and despair

Cinemablend

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms’ Dexter Sol Ansell Dressed Up As Egg For His School's World Book Day, And He Wins

He crushed it, though I expected nothing less.

The Guardian - UK

The Manningtree Witches review – Ava Pickett’s gripping follow-up to Tudor hit 1536

The targets of the infamous 17th-century ‘witchfinder general’ narrate a powerful play based on AK Blakemore’s novel

Marie Claire

Prince William and Princess Kate's "Significant Shift" from How Queen Elizabeth Operated "Redefined their Role"

"William and Catherine recognised that they would not be able to make the impact they wanted."

The Guardian - UK

Extra stress or a bit of fun? Teachers and parents discuss World Book Day

As children dress up in UK and Ireland on Thursday, not everyone is on the same page over event’s pros and cons

1 … 44 45 46 47

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the US Department of Justice

the Bangladesh Nationalist Party

21 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.