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‘It’s time the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo grew up’: Karin Smirnoff on her shocking sequel

The Swede is the first woman to write a Lisbeth Salander novel. She explains what men don’t get about sexual violence, why she introduced a genius niece – and how writing beats chopping wood for a living

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Watch former Prairie View A&M President Ruth Simmons talk about her new memoir

Simmons talked with The Texas Tribune about “Up Home: One Girl’s Journey,” which depicts an era long gone but whose legacies of inequality still persist.

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Millennial Money: How to budget with a fluctuating income

Freelancers, service workers, people who work seasonal jobs and those who earn money based on tips, royalties or commissions often experience fluctuating income during a month, season or year

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Very early version of JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book fails to sell at auction

Auctioneer said it would have been ‘wrong’ to sell it for ‘too little’

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Edith Grossman, acclaimed translator, dies at 87

Her translation of Don Quixote was described as ‘indisputably definitive’, and she received a host of accolades including the Order of Civil Merit awarded by the King of Spain

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Martin Scorsese has already set his next film after Killers of the Flower Moon

Three guesses who it’ll star

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Salty Brine at Soho Theatre review – an extraordinarily beautiful monster mash-up

The New York cabaret darling’s show knits together The Smiths and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Evening Standard

Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Rory Cellan-Jones review – an intimate tale of romance and betrayal

The former BBC correspondent’s discovery of his mother’s letters to and from the father he first met at 23 makes for a captivating family detective story – and a poignant social history of Britain

The Guardian - UK

Professor Hakim Adi shortlisted for prestigious Wolfson award

The nomination for Adi,the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago

The Guardian - UK

Acclaimed historian Hakim Adi up for prize weeks after being made redundant in cost-cutting measures

The first academic of African heritage to be made a professor of history in Britain was today shortlisted for his subject’s most lucrative prize only weeks after being made redundant in a controversial cost-cutting measure.

Evening Standard

From Elgin Marbles to Moai heads: What artefacts have the British Museum been urged to return?

The Parthenon Sculptures, Rosetta Stone and Benin Bronzes are just some of the ‘contested objects’ in Bloomsbury institution’s collection, Joe Sommerlad reports

The Independent UK

The heartbreaking reason for The Hunger Games prequel protagonist’s name

Rachel Zegler stars as Lucy Gray Baird in forthcoming prequel, ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’

The Independent UK

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review: a dazzling depiction of Victorian colonial England

Zadie Smith’s latest novel, The Fraud, is her first foray into the world of historical fiction. The result is a stunning, well-studied examination of Victorian colonial England and some of its inhabitants.

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How I turned prisoners’ misery into reading pleasure: the brilliant story of Bang Up Books

When I heard Covid was keeping inmates in cells, I drove a car load of donated books to Pentonville. It became a project that now delivers thousands of books to British jails

The Hindu

A teacher with a passion for songs

M.D. Manoj, a teacher in Kerala, has authored 3 dozen books & scores of articles on Malayalam film songs. His passion for music has led to books on Salil Choudhury, ONV Kurup & Ravi. He's currently working on 6 books, including a sequel to Priyappetta Pattukal & a biography of…

The Guardian - UK

Ernest Hemingway letter about surviving plane crashes sold for $237,055

The novelist’s four-page letter to his lawyer in 1954 recounts his injuries following two successive plane crashes in two days

The Hindu

After a documentary and a series, now comes a book on stamp paper scam

Activist Jayant Tinaikar is writing a book on Abdul Kareem Telgi, the fake stamp paper scam kingpin. It will be released in Mumbai on September 23. He claims to have exposed the scam and is bitter about not being given enough credit. The book is about Telgi's arrest and conviction,…

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U. of I. professor examines complexity and contradictions of work

Robert Bruno’s book “What Work Is” draws on how his students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign characterized their jobs and how they affect daily life.

The Guardian - UK

In the Ditch by Buchi Emecheta review – ‘a documentary novel’ from the 1970s

Reissued as a Penguin Classic, the late Nigerian-born novelist’s debut work evokes life at the mercy of the welfare state in London with a sharp and wry eye

The Independent UK

No return to UK for Meghan over Kate curtsey issue, Diana’s biographer says

Andrew Morton, author of ‘Diana: Her True Story’, ruled out a move back for the Sussexes

Chicago Sun-Times

Teen sets out to save jazz musician’s soul in Chicago man’s debut graphic novel

‘Every step of the way I was almost like, “This isn’t actually going to happen,” ’ Austin Paramore said of his journey to get his graphic novel published.

The Hindu

Doubt if Rajini would have fallen at U.P. CM’s feet if he had read Dr. Kafeel Khan’s book: Jawahirullah

MMK Pres. Jawahirullah says Rajinikanth wouldn't have bowed to Yogi Adithyanath if he read Dr. Kafeel Khan's book on Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy. BJP's incorruptibility should be exposed, he adds. Dr. Khan says 63 kids & 18 adults died & families still wait for justice. He'll fight for healthcare as a…

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Maverick; North Woods; Ready for Absolutely Nothing – review

An even-handed biography of a pioneering publisher; a twisty New England historical tale; and a surprisingly poignant celebrity memoir

The Guardian - AU

This ‘bum-poo-fart author’ is Australia’s biggest writer: Andy Griffiths on ending the Treehouse books

The children’s author who has sold millions of funny (and disgusting) books talks about challenging nervous adults and being married to his editor Jill

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