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Weirdo by Sara Pascoe review – astute observational comedy

An oddball woman gets a second stab at love in this entertaining if meandering debut novel shot through with subversive ideas about romance and lust

The Guardian - UK

‘Wouldn’t it make life easier?’: the growing campaign for pockets on women’s clothes

Centuries after men began carrying items in their clothes, women are still encumbered with bags. Now activists are changing that

The Guardian - UK

The Psychosis of Whiteness by Kehinde Andrews review – provocative but problematic

This insightful journey through the realms of racial oppression is marred by a careless disrespect for black female scholars

The Guardian - UK

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‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review

Pip becomes Pipli in Tanika Gupta’s colonial Indian take on Dickens; Caroline Quentin and daughter are a dream team in April De Angelis’s Emma Hamilton romp; and Polly Stenham’s 2007 debut hits home in a devastating revival

The Guardian - UK

Enter the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2024

The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is now opened for submissions

The Guardian - UK

In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf: walking the west Cornwall coast to the Badger pub

Starting in arty St Ives, this route takes in a hill the writer ‘staggered up’ in 1909, the lighthouse that inspired her novel, and finishes in a pub she loved

The Guardian - UK

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The big picture: when Nick Waplington became a wedding photographer

After documenting the colourful family life of his grandfather’s neighbour Janet in his first book, Waplington ended up capturing her big day

The Guardian - UK

Maureen Freely: ‘Turkey is a place where writers matter’

The author and academic on her exploration of a ‘dark chapter’ in Turkish history, how working as a translator changed her view of the world, and her long friendship with novelist Orhan Pamuk

The Guardian - UK

Welsh mansion that inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge on the verge of collapse

Piercefield House, a Grade II-listed mansion that may have been the prototype for Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, is now ‘seriously distressed’

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk almost got named after a French city, reveals book

Elon Musk was almost named after a beautiful French city and the reason was he was conceived there. 52-year-old, Elon Reeve Musk's connection to a French city has been revealed in the new book written by American author, Walter Isaacson.

The Times of India

‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones

Long before Harry Potter went to Hogwarts, Diana Wynne Jones wrote about a school for witches. Fifty years after the author of Howl’s Moving Castle published her first novel for children, Rundell celebrates the writer who inspired her own fantasy debut

The Guardian - UK

North Woods by Daniel Mason review – an epic of American lives

This dazzling fragmentary history of a small patch of woodland in New England travels to the limits of what the novel can do

The Guardian - UK

Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed

Newly discovered correspondence in the Vatican archives suggests that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland

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The Guardian - UK

In the tracks of the Orient Express: my train ride from London to Istanbul

The fabled railway service returns in 2025. But you don’t need to wait until then, or pay the eyewatering fares, to ride this classic route

The Guardian - AU

‘Most women I know don’t want to have sex like men’: Chanel Contos on consent, porn and ‘out-of-fashion’ feminists

Two years ago Contos prompted a national reckoning on sexual consent. Now the 25-year-old is filling venues as she reintroduces radical feminism to gen Z

Reason

More on Controversial Books at Princeton

A member of Congress weighs in, and the university president speaks out

Evening Standard

‘Demon Mode’, near-death and cities on Mars - the strangest revelations from Elon Musk’s biography

Written with unprecedented access, Walter Isaacson’s book is making waves with a host of bombshells — here are some of the big ones...

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The Independent UK

First collection of William Shakespeare’s plays on show to toast key anniversary

The 400-year-old collection includes the first publication of Macbeth

The Conversation

Anxiety can often be a drag on creativity, upending the trope of the tortured artist

In the U.S., anxiety disorders affect about one-third of the population. So it’s no surprise that a good number of artists and writers also suffer from anxiety and depression.

Evening Standard

Why are so many celebrities writing novels?

Full-time authors have critcised big names crowding the shelves

Evening Standard

The Glutton review: This story of a man who could eat anything (even a child) is exquisitely told

His belly distended, his teeth ground to stumps, his eyes wild: this, we are told, is a man who ate cats; corks; rats; belts; 30 pounds of beef lung and liver; a golden fork; 75 eggs. This is a man who ate a child. Or did he?

Evening Standard

Israelophobia review: Is Israel treated differently? Yes and that should shame us

If your starting position is that Israel has no right to exist – to “push it into the sea” as the Iranian regime charmingly puts it – this probably isn’t the book for you. Israelophobia by Jake Wallis Simons is not a simple defence of Israel, nor an attempt to deny its…

The National (Scotland)

Irvine Welsh: Drug deaths high because Scotland 'can't control its destiny'

Irvine Welsh has said Scotland’s high level of drug deaths is down to the country not having control of its own destiny and being on the…

The Independent UK

Irvine Welsh no longer has to go to pubs to hear ‘the worst’ of humanity: ‘Just go on social media’

Scottish author discusses how he finds inspiration for his famously dark and troubled characters

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