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How amateur sleuth found human remains in hunt for Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett

Author Russell Edwards, researching Keith Bennett’s murder 58 years ago, found a skull close to where the other Moors murders victims were buried - and it could be the story's final chapter

Daily Mirror · Oct 1, 2022

Little Fires Everywhere author Celeste Ng: ‘Elena and Mia constantly butt heads with each other inside me’

The writer of the novel that inspired the hit TV series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington talks about how her new book turned dystopian after Trump came to power

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2022

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 · Oct 1, 2022

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 · Sep 30, 2022

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.

Axios · Sep 30, 2022

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 · Sep 30, 2022

How the GOP weaponized ignorance

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

Salon · Sep 30, 2022

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 · Sep 30, 2022

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 · Sep 30, 2022

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 · Sep 30, 2022