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Spotify will now sell you books

Music app also launches new feature to let people switch between physical and audiobooks

The Independent UK

Arcadia at the Old Vic review: a fitting tribute to Tom Stoppard's genius

5/5 This wonderful meditation on love, death and mathematics dances through the mind and the heart

Evening Standard

Leaving Home by Mark Haddon review – blistering memoir of a loveless childhood

The Curious Incident author describes the upbringing that shaped him – and for which he can’t help feeling nostalgia

The Guardian - UK

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I’m ready to admit it – Wuthering Heights is an awful, awful book

COMMENT: With a new big-budget film adaptation hitting our screens, the classic 19th-century novel is all anyone can talk about. It’s a shame, then, that it’s such an uncompromisingly terrible read, argues Helen Coffey

The Independent UK

Children’s author becomes first writer shortlisted twice for Waterstones book awards

Welsh writer and illustrator has had two of his books nominated in distinct categories in the prestigious awards

The Independent UK

Steve Lamb obituary

Other lives: German scholar at Warwick University whose focus was culture and politics in the Weimar republic

The Guardian - UK

35 Years Later, A Terrifying Martin Scorsese Classic Is Getting A Massive Update

Apple's 'Cape Fear' remake is taking a big risk with a classic horror story.

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Young ladies too tired to stand at a Black debutante ball: Miranda Barnes’s best photograph

‘The girls wait for two or three hours to be introduced. The reason they’re sitting on the ground is because there weren’t any chairs in the waiting room’

The Guardian - UK

Allan Massie obituary

Acclaimed novelist and literary critic who was a staunch opponent of Scottish devolution

The Guardian - UK

‘I also like that the dad cries’: children on their favourite Australian picture book of all time

From Jetty Jumping to green sheep, children tell us why they love the books they ask for night after night

The Guardian - AU

Woman tells inquest she heard two screams on night Noah Donohoe disappeared

Noah, a pupil of St Malachy’s College, was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020

Evening Standard

JK Rowling denies inviting Jeffrey Epstein to Harry Potter premiere

‘I never met, communicated with or invited Jeffrey Epstein to anything,’ author said

The Independent UK

‘Cancel culture’: Teltumbde’s session at Kala Ghoda scrapped amid objections from Hindutva accounts

Organisers of Mumbai’s famous Kala Ghoda Arts Festival have cancelled a book discussion featuring scholar and civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde on the orders of the Mumbai Police. Participants of this discussion have also been instructed to delete all social media posts related to the event, according to a report…

Newslaundry

Crux by Gabriel Tallent review – a passionate portrait of teenage climbers

The follow-up to My Absolute Darling, this tale of best friends who dream of a better life features exquisite sports writing and a lovable heroine – but the plotting is unconvincing

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Palestinian author to appear at rebel literary event

Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah will appear at a last-minute alternative to the now-cancelled Adelaide Writers' Week.

AAP

Author 'gobsmacked' by peak body funding crisis

A peak body for writers may have to close after missing out on state government funding, and one author says she's "gobsmacked" by the situation.

Cinemablend

Brandon Sanderson Responds To Fans Worried He’ll Pull A George R.R. Martin With Mistborn And Stormlight Archive Adaptations

Here's what things stand.

Evening Standard

The Rat Trap at the Park Theatre: a must-see for Noel Coward completists

3/5 Bill Rosenfield has finessed Noel Coward’s teenage play, where radical social ideas bubble beneath brittle humour

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The Guardian - UK

Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’, to publish book from prison

Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine is a collection of writings by the Palestinian political leader, who has been held in Israeli prisons since 2002

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J.K. Rowling Breaks Her Silence On Jeffrey Epstein Accusations

J.K. Rowling responded to a message that said she was “sending invitations” to Jeffrey Epstein “10 years after he was convicted.”

The Guardian - UK

Jilly Cooper made everyone feel special – and her memorial was the perfect tribute

It featured the queen, Rupert Everett and horses paying their respects, amid a combination of romance, absurdity and delight at Southwark Cathedral last week, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

White River Crossing by Ian McGuire review – colonial greed drives a doomed hunt for gold

The author of The North Water vividly captures bleak beauty and brutish appetites on an 18th-century expedition into the frozen wilds of Canada

The Guardian - UK

The Good Society by Kate Pickett review – the Spirit Level author takes stock

A whistle-stop tour of the greatest hits of progressive policy fails to take account of a central conundrum

Creative Bloq

From moorland to Margot: what 179 years of Wuthering Heights covers can teach designers today

Experts discuss what we can learn.

The Independent UK

Debunking the myth of the toxic ‘Infinite Jest bro’

COMMENT: Thirty years after publication, David Foster Wallace’s 1996 opus remains a seismic literary achievement, writes Louis Chilton. Anyone complaining about its readership is fixating on the wrong thing

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