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The ‘Maya Angelou of Iraq,’ a refugee living in South Jersey, publishes a powerful memoir

Writer Faleeha Hassan had a strange dream.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Review: 'Where Are the Snows,' by Kathleen Rooney

Reading Kathleen Rooney's "Where Are the Snows" is much like walking into an echo chamber from which you emerge enlightened, amused and shaken. In each poem, sounds, ideas and positions rise, repeat and mutate, as in this line from a poem on outer space: "Black hole as home for the…

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Review: 'Reluctant Immortals' cleverly restores agency to 2 mistreated characters

If you're going to completely reimagine the stories of two famous literary characters, you might as well do it with style.

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Barton Goldsmith: You can only handle so much disappointment

I just had the biggest disappointment of this very tough year: My publisher is delaying the release of my latest book, “until market conditions change.” This is a biggie for me, and I am sharing it with you, because I want you to know that, even with all I have…

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Shamima Begum ‘smuggled to Syria by Canadian spy’

Ms Begum fled her east London home for Syria as a 15-year-old schoolgirl with her two friends in 2015.

The Independent UK

Shamima Begum: Spy smuggled schoolgirl to Syria where she joined Isis, new book claims

Book claims Canada hired human trafficker to gain insight into recruitment of its own citizens by Isis

The Independent UK

The Unfolding by AM Homes review – jittery tale of Republican conspiracy

Set in the wake of Obama’s election, AM Homes’s satirical prehistory of the Maga movement is caught between two eras

The Guardian - UK

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Best books based on films and TV shows

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Evening Standard

Royal family 'braced for Meghan Markle's bombshell memoir' about life in The Firm

The Royal Family could be facing more explosive revelations with a close contact of Meghan Markle reportedly saying they would be "surprised" if it was not being worked on

Daily Mirror

Obscenity case seeking to bar Barnes & Noble from selling 2 books to minors dismissed by judge

A Virginia Beach Circuit Court judge on Tuesday dismissed an effort to declare two books obscene and unfit for children.

Tribune News Service

Judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids

A judge in Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors by booksellers and libraries

The Independent UK

JK Rowling’s new book features woman who is killed after being accused of transphobia

Author said novel ‘genuinely wasn’t’ a response to the backlash she has received for her comments about transgender rights

The Independent UK

Inside Diana’s enduring influence as world pays tribute on 25th anniversary of her death

As the world marks 25 years since Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a high-speed car crash in Paris, TND takes a look back at her enduring influence.

The New Daily

Self-portrait: Dominic Hoey

The author of the year's most exciting novel.

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The Guardian - UK

The Gold Machine review – Iain Sinclair confronts imperial ancestors in Peru trek

In the film of Sinclair’s book, the writer ends up rerouting the story of his great-grandfather’s expedition to the Amazon to its own psychogeographic musings

The Conversation

Corruption in South Africa: new book sets out how ruling ANC lost the battle

One of the greatest benefits of South Africa’s democracy is freedom of speech and publication. Mpumelelo Mkhabela’s book, The Enemy Within, is the latest in a cascade of publications over the last decade that record corruption and theft by leading politicians in the country’s ruling party.

Daily Mirror

Night Diana confronted Camilla about affair to the utter horror of Prince Charles

In Andrew Morton’s book Diana: Her True Story — In Her Own Words, she recalled the 'worst day of her life' when she realised that Prince Charles had gone back to Camilla despite his promises

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Book Narrates Successes, Disappointments of the ‘Battle for Change’ in Damascus

Discussing Sami Moubayed’s book “Tramway: The Road to Modernity Passed through Damascus,” which is scheduled for release by Riad El-Rayyes Books in Beirut in early September, Amin Maalouf said that the new book “awakens nostalgia and some hope.” The release represents the sixth collaboration between Moubayed and El-Rayyes Books.

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The Independent UK

Author Val McDermid claims Agatha Christie’s estate has warned her over ‘Queen of Crime’ title

Scottish crime writer has called correspondence from Christie’s estate ‘astonishingly pitiful’

Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Goldberg: Remember when we thought George W. Bush was the worst president ever?

Twenty years ago next month, President George W. Bush stood before the United Nations and warned that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a "grave and gathering danger," setting the stage for an invasion six months later based on false premises about super-destructive weapons and purported connections to the 9/11 attacks.

The Guardian - UK

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – a master writer leads us on a 17th-century manhunt

This rich and riotous novel, following the search for two of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant, is also an important book for our own historical moment

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The book of the affair

Why cheat on someone you love?

The Times of India

Micro review: 'Diana, William, and Harry' by James Patterson and Chris Mooney

International bestselling author James Patterson is back with a new book with co-author Chris Mooney. Ahead of the late Princess Diana's 25th death anniversary on August 31, 2022, Patterson and Mooney's new book titled 'Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother' was published on August…

The Guardian - UK

Appearing on University Challenge was terrifying – now I’m setting the questions

My mixed experiences on quiz programmes taught me that the real joy lies in acquiring knowledge, not showing it off, says writer Lillian Crawford

Reason

How J.K. Rowling Became Targeted by Both Progressive Millennials and Christian Conservatives

Perhaps Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has the mark of a great story—everyone can find cause both to love it and to hate it.

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