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Librarians: Book bans hit record high

Attempts to ban books infringe on a person's constitutional rights, says one intellectual freedom advocate

Salon

Lisburn's Sam McBratney murals to attract global visitors

"This is another welcome step in recognising Sam McBratney who has made a huge contribution to children's lives."

Belfast Live

Judge rules it's not racist to call someone a 'dark horse' after Leeds tribunal

A black worker tried to sue her employer when her boss used the innocuous phrase which dates back to a novel by Benjamin Disraeli in 1831

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AOC calls story of Rosa Parks ‘too woke’ for Republicans

‘When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is,’ congresswoman says

The Independent UK

The Week in Detail: Top authors, lobbying, and Muriwai

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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Adapt and survive: why Dickens still endures on page, stage and screen

The new version of Great Expectations is the BBC’s seventh, while A Christmas Carol is the most adapted English classic ever. What is it about these stories that keeps us wanting more?

The Guardian - UK

Kenzaburō Ōe obituary

Nobel prize-winning writer whose novels linked the personal and political in exploring fatherhood and the legacy of war in Japan

The Guardian - UK

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Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

The Guardian - UK

Ling Ma, Beverly Gage among authors honored by book critics

Ling Ma’s sharp and surreal “Bliss Montage” and Beverly Gage’s sweeping biography of the late FBI Director J

The Independent UK

Deliveroo will be delivering free books about Ramadan to help families learn

Deliveroo has partnered with author Zeba Talkhani (illustrated by Abeeha Tariq) to distribute hundreds of copies of her book ‘The Most Exciting Eid’ - for free - with restaurant orders to help British families learn about Ramadan in a new ‘Deliveread

Wales Online

Lord of the Flies review – school staple is bang up to date for world on the brink

Amy Leach’s production evokes a very current crop of anxieties with the castaways excellently played by a young cast

The Guardian - UK

“There’s No Book Club?!” 'Yellowjackets' Star Warren Kole is Happy to Be a Meme

The 'Yellowjackets' star reveals what it's like being a meme, how his character's changed, and his forgotten Marvel role.

Inverse

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A bullying beetle; an Irish myth; the search for a magical beast; and a gripping coming-of-age story set in Ghana

The Guardian - UK

Book fraudster Filippo Bernardini spared jail

The publishing employee who targeted manuscripts from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan was fined and will be deported from the US

The Guardian - UK

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A tale of too many remakes: why we never need to see a Dickens novel on TV ever again

The BBC is about to screen yet another adaptation of Great Expectations – and enough is enough. It’s time they focused on new stories, rather than constantly making the same show

Daily Mirror

Mum sells first-edition Harry Potter book - with life-changing consequences

Kirsten Kane, 35, couldn't believe it when her mum found a rare copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone while clearing out her attic - just at the perfect time

The Times of India

Record high reported in Book ban efforts, says ALA

According to data released by the American Library Association on March 23, 2023, requests for books to be removed from US shelves and the wave of attempted book banning touched a record-high in 2022, with the majority of titles "targeted for censorship" related to LGBTQ issues and minorities.

The Guardian - UK

Katherine Rundell: ‘My party trick is knowing Jane Austen’s Emma off by heart’

The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety

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The Guardian - UK

Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash review – Europe’s story

The author and journalist charts some of the lessons learned from the Hungarian revolution to the invasion of Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Taking drugs with your children? Gen Z won’t even want to share a beer with us

Hanif Kureishi talks of cocaine nights with his kids. He makes the whole issue sound simple. I can’t believe it is, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Independent UK

Yellowjackets season two review: Pulpy survival drama is turning into an increasingly second-rate adventure

Preposterous, but fun. Gruesome, but fun. Tantalising, but fun. Yet there comes a point where the show must produce a pay-off

Cinemablend

Shadow And Bone’s Ben Barnes And Daisy Head Discuss How General Kirigan And Genya’s Relationship Differs From The Books In Season 2

Ben Barnes and Daisy Head discuss how General Kirigan and Genya's relationship differs from the books in Season 2 of Shadow and Bone.

Los Angeles Times

Ling Ma, Isaac Butler and Morgan Talty among National Book Critics Circle Award winners

Ling Ma, Morgan Talty, Boris Dralyuk and Isaac Butler are among the winners of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards announced during a ceremony Thursday night at the New School in New York City.

Los Angeles Times

Another Prince Harry book? 'Spare Us!' gives his memoir the parody treatment

First came the Twitter critics, then the late-night comedians and now the satirists: Prince Harry's bestselling memoir "Spare" is getting the parody treatment, to arrive on the heels of April Fool's Day.

Zenger

A Look Into The Psychedelic Drug Prince Harry Took To Deal With Past ‘traumas’

Immersive states of consciousness, typified by vivid and strange images, are produced by the highly potent substance.

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