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What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem

Bill Keller, once editor of the New York Times, now with the Marshall Project, shows how the US came to imprison so many of its citizens, disproportionately Black and brown, and how such a gross injustice might yet be addressed

The Guardian - US

‘It’s not an unsolvable case’: has the Zodiac killer finally been found?

Author Jarett Kobek never intended to make the case the focus of his book but he may have solved the 50-year-old mystery

The Guardian - US

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

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

The Guardian - UK

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Maggie Haberman fires back with photo of her book notes after Trump calls her a lying ‘creep’

Haberman’s book ‘Confidence Man’ is released soon

The Independent UK

The Winter King: What is the new series now being filmed in the West Country

The ten-part series is based on a trilogy of Bernard Cornwell novels

Bristol Post

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Days Like These by Brian Bilston; A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu; England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial; After Sylvia, edited by Ian Humphreys and Sarah Corbett; Journeys Across Breath by Stephen Watts

The Guardian - UK

Trump threatened to go after Maggie Haberman's phone records

Trump has been known to rant: "I never speak to her." Aides roll their eyes.

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Canada’s Robert Munsch marathon aims to honour much-loved children’s author

Actor M John Kennedy will read all 75 books in a single day during Toronto’s Nuit Blanche art festival

The Guardian - US

How the GOP weaponized ignorance

Satirist Andy Borowitz on deliberate dumbness in America, and how it became central to the Republican brand

Salon

Denise Mina: ‘All my reading is comfort reading’

The author on the underrated brilliance of PG Wodehouse, taking inspiration from Harper Lee, and the play that made her think differently about Northern Ireland

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: One way of stemming the tide of book bans? Allow for compromise

In November 2020, Washington held the nation’s first-ever state referendum on sex education. By a nearly 60% to 40% plurality, voters in the Evergreen State approved a set of guidelines that include information about contraception, LGBTQ identities and sexual consent. But the guidelines also allow parents to opt out of…

Chicago Tribune

Four speakers for the 2022 BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures announced

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lord Rowan Williams, Darren McGarvey and Dr Fiona Hill will give the lectures on the topics of freedoms.

The Independent UK

Tsitsi Dangarembga on Zimbabwe: ‘Every time we say it can’t get any worse, it does’

After her peaceful activism led to a conviction for promoting violence, Zimbabwe’s most distinguished novelist contemplates the possibility of a life in exile

The Guardian - UK

The Roux — a ‘gas station with purpose’ — opens on South Side with pumps, store and literacy center for kids

“We’re about not only making a difference, but being a difference,” said Lavaille Lavette, author of the children’s series “Adventures of Roopster Roux.”

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Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn review – luminescent experiments in narrative voice

By anthropomorphising a creek, a hotel room, a virus and other things, Flynn’s short stories ask us to truly inhabit this world we will ultimately leave behind

The Guardian - AU

It is the great paradox of being human: we change but we stay the same

Is the older me just a watered-down version of the younger me? There is something eternal in us all – a thing that doesn’t age or calcify

Salon

Trump wanted to "sue" Congress: new book

Trump had a novel idea to fight his 2019 impeachment, Maggie Haberman writes

Newsroom.co.nz

This week's bestselling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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Don nearly fired Ivanka, Jared via tweet

"Trump repeatedly gave instructions 'to essentially fire the pair,'" according to new book

Bristol Post

Bristol's smallest bookshop will open its doors this weekend

Heron Books will become the city's smallest bookshop when it makes its debut this weekend

The Guardian - UK

The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones review – portrait of an artist

A fascinating meditation on Black female creativity from the author of Corregidora and Palmares

The Independent UK

Black History Month: 7 books by emerging black authors to put on your reading list

Use October as an opportunity to get stuck into some of the best books of 2022.

The Guardian - US

Trump asked May at debut meeting why Boris Johnson was not PM, book says

Former president reportedly asked indelicate question at White House in January 2017 when Johnson was foreign secretary

The Independent UK

Romance novel model pleads guilty to dragging DC police officer into Jan 6 crowd that brutally assaulted him

Barnhart dragged an officer down the strairs to a crowd that attacked him with weapons

Newcastle Herald

Sami Bayly's latest book on 'surprising sea creatures'

The 'grandpa Greenland shark' lives in the midnight zone of the ocean.

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