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Martin Amis: literary wunderkind who ‘blazed like a rocket’

A “blazing, once-in-a-generation talent”, Martin Amis “provoked, inspired and outraged readers ... across a literary career that set off like a rocket, and went on to dazzle, streak and burn for almost 50 years”, said Boyd Tonkin in The Guardian.

The Week · May 26, 2023

Digested week: Netflix ends password-sharing – but I’m close to bailing anyway

Plus, reflections on Martin Amis’s later years, and Jude Law’s disgusting new cologne

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2023

Parliament full of ‘nooks and crannies’ for MPs to have sex in, Boris Johnson ex-aide says

Cleo Watson has recently written her first novel which includes a scene depicting a couple in ‘flagrante’ at Chequers

The Independent UK · May 26, 2023

African American English Dictionary gives first look at 10 words, including ‘bussin’ and ‘old school’

A dictionary comprised of words created or redefined by Black people released a list of 10 words that will appear when the book is published in March 2025.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2023

Travis Alabanza and Danielle Jawando win 2023 Jhalak prizes for writers of colour

Judges described None of the Above, Alabanza’s memoir about being genderqueer, as ‘desperately important’, and said every teenager should read Jawando’s young adult novel When Our Worlds Collided

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2023

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 20, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2023

‘The public wants certainty’: why have Americans stopped trusting in science?

In a new book, chemist Christopher Reddy tackles the problems faced by the scientific community during moments of major crisis

The Guardian - US · May 25, 2023

Abdellah Taïa is Morocco's first openly gay writer – his work reimagines being Muslim, queer and African

Abdellah Taïa was born in 1973 in Rabat, Morocco. He currently lives in Paris. He is the first writer from north Africa – and in fact the Arab world – to openly declare that he is gay. In 2006, he came out in a highly publicised article in the Moroccan…

The Conversation · May 25, 2023

Sadiq Khan: Anti-Ulez protesters didn’t ‘spoil’ book launch

Sadiq Khan’s book launch was interrupted by protesters opposed to the Ultra low emission zone’s expansion - but he says they did not succeed in ‘spoiling’ the event

Evening Standard · May 25, 2023

Book FINALLY returned to library after nearly 100 years with thousands in fines

Jim Perry returned Benson Lossing's "A History of the United States" to the St Helena Public Library in California 96 years after it was due in 1927

Daily Mirror · May 25, 2023