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'You Hurt My Feelings' review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a joy in this perfectly sized film

Beth Mitchell (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her husband Don (Tobias Menzies) are one of those middle-aged couples whose lives seem perfect: She's an academic and a writer with a published memoir and a just-finished novel, he's a psychologist with a busy therapy practice, and the two are empty nesters in a…

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Micro review: 'Time Shelter' by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel

Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov is considered as one of the most important writers of contemporary European literature. He won the International Booker Prize 2023 for his book 'Time Shelter', which is translated into English by Angela Rodel.

The Times of India

'Carry Strong' Helps Women Navigate Work While Pregnant

In an excerpt from her new book, Stephanie Dishart Kramer explores the intersection of career and motherhood.

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Corruption in South Africa: former CEO's explosive book exposes how state power utility was destroyed

One repeated theme of the memoir Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom, by Andre de Ruyter, former CEO of South Africa’s troubled power utility, Eskom, is that “negligence and carelessness had become cemented into the organisation”.

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Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem

Poet, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal

The Guardian - US

Who is Georgi Gospodinov, the Bulgarian writer who just won the International Booker Prize?

“The country would have a collective orgasm if we win,” said Gospodinov’s translator Angela Rodel before the winner was announced

Evening Standard

Brexit was my big inspiration, says Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the International Booker Prize

‘Here in the UK there are many layers of memory’ the Bulgarian writer said

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Bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami wins Spanish Asturias prize for literature

Bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has won this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for literature

The Independent UK

Long story: book returned to California library nearly a century late

Benson Lossing’s A History of the United States was checked out in 1927 and returned this month

The Guardian - UK

Indian sub continent is particularly vulnerable to climate change: Hamish McRae in his new book 'The World in 2050'

Renowned journalist Hamish McRae is considered as one of Europe's foremost voices about global trends in business, economics, and society. And now, in his latest book titled 'The World in 2050' he gives his insights about the next thirty years.

The Times of India

Prince Harry opens up about how his childhood shaped how he parents Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet

"I, as a father, feel a huge responsibility to ensure that I don't pass on any traumas or negative experiences I've had"

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No rhyme or reason: why is poetry missing from the new Caffè Nero book awards?

Despite rising sales in the UK, there is no poetry category in the new writing prize. The reason isn’t a lack of audience but a lack of imagination

The Guardian - UK

Looking back at the massacre that destroyed Black Tulsa, and forward at efforts to rebuild

NONFICTION: Victor Luckerson explores Oklahoma's violent past through one family's rise from the ashes in 'Built From the Fire.'

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How R. F. Kuang turned every recent book scandal into the satirical thriller 'Yellowface'

R. F. Kuang, 26, is hardly a debut author. She has already published four fantasy novels infused with Chinese history and profound questions about colonial legacies, including the "Poppy War" trilogy and last year's bestseller, "Babel, or the Necessity of Violence."

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His book captures 100 years of folk and country music history in Chicago

CHICAGO — Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park, Illinois, and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications, on stages of theaters in plays he created and now, finally, between covers in a spectacular book dedicated to the…

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Friends and frenemies pursue life, love and MFAs at a Midwestern university

FICTION: Brandon Taylor follows grad school novel 'Real Life' with another look at the lows of higher learning.

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Review: Musical stars? Phoning the afterlife? The goofy ideas of Thomas Edison and others

NONFICTION: Author Katie Spalding is a kind of Bill Nye on steroids, making arcane science fascinating and fun.

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Review: How a journalist recovered from trauma to raise up voices of the vulnerable

NONFICTION: Rachel Louise Snyder describes troubled youth and finding herself in travel, reporting.

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The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan and Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang.

Daily Mirror

Louise Minchin returns to BBC Breakfast a year and a half after exit as replacement missing

Louise Minchin returned to BBC Breakfast on Wednesday almost two years after she stepped down from the show

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price

They've held credentials from some of the world's most elite universities — Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oxford. They've been welcomed into the highest government policy councils. They became fixtures on television news shows and were quoted incessantly by some of the nation's leading newspapers.

The Guardian - UK

Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne review – a terror suspect’s story

From childhood in London to radicalist notoriety to global wanderings, this fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious

The Texas Tribune

Texas lawmakers OK bill that aims to keep sexually explicit material out of school libraries

Approved by both chambers, the bill is now on its way to the governor. Unless he vetoes it, the bill will become law, which means book vendors will have to assign ratings to books based on depictions or references to sex.

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High school textbooks fall short on teaching Latino history, experience, Johns Hopkins analysis finds

U.S. history textbooks for high schoolers are lacking when it comes to covering the Latino experience, a report by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Latino civil rights organization UnidosUS found.

The Guardian - UK

International Booker prize announces first ever Bulgarian winner

Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, translated by Angela Rodel, portrays a ‘clinic for the past’ and was praised as a ‘great novel about Europe’

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