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Five Great Reads: King of the World Cup, neighbours from hell, and all aboard the celebrity impersonator cruise

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

Craig Silvey has pled guilty to child exploitation. What do we do with his books?

Australian author Craig Silvey, known for his bestselling books Jasper Jones, Honeybee and Runt, has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material. Two further charges were dropped, including allegations he produced child exploitation material.

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Friday essay: racism, misogyny and culture wars: Zadie Smith and Anne Enright help us make sense of troubling times

Essay collections gather a writer’s thoughts over time and can be read as an oblique form of memoir, one in which the self is revealed through a series of conversations with the world.

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Attention by Anne Enright review – sparkling reflections on life and literature

Unabashed and morally generous, the Booker winner writes like a sharp, funny, fallen angel

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve seen so many people go down rabbit holes’: Patricia Lockwood on losing touch with reality

The Priestdaddy author on quitting social media, Maga conspiracies and how her second novel grew out of a period of post-Covid mania

The Guardian - UK

Why Alice Munro’s Biographer Left Her Daughter’s Abuse Out of His Book

An exclusive interview with Robert Thacker on the secret he carried for twenty years

The Walrus

Undoing the Fairy Tale of Alice Munro

For years, I helped spread a glowing narrative about one of Canada’s most famous authors

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Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst review – one for the ages

Key moments in an actor’s life over seven decades are illuminated with skill and quiet power in this languid and stately novel

The Guardian - UK

Who Knew What about Alice Munro?

An interview with editor Deborah Dundas on breaking the story

The Walrus

Rape myths can affect jurors’ perceptions of sexual assault, and that needs to change

In Canada, more than 34,000 cases of sexual assault were reported to police in 2022, representing a 38 per cent increase from 2017.

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Educators wonder how to teach the writings of Alice Munro in wake of daughter's revelations

For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories

The Independent UK

Nobel Laureate Alice Munro's Legacy Tarnished By Abuse Allegations

Alice Munro's legacy is questioned as revelations of her husband's abuse and her complicity emerge.

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Canadian officer says Alice Munro claimed her daughter was lying about being abused by stepfather

A retired police detective involved in the arrest of the husband of Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories, says he was disturbed by her reaction 20 years ago when he said he was going to charge her husband for sexually assaulting her daughter

The Independent UK

Re-reading Alice Munro in the light of the secrets she kept and pain she caused

This week, Canadians heard about the enormity of Andrea Skinner’s suffering, following sexual abuse by her stepfather, and her mother Alice Munro’s decision to stay with and protect him.

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The Gothic horror of Alice Munro: A reckoning with the darkness behind a feminist icon

This week, in a devastating story about Alice Munro’s complicity in the sexual abuse of her youngest daughter, we discovered how Munro, a Nobel Prize-winning author acclaimed for her uniquely Gothic interpretation of women’s lives, actually lived her feminism.

The Independent UK

Alice Munro's daughter alleges sexual abuse by the late author's husband

The daughter of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro is alleging that she was sexually abused by the author’s second husband, Gerard Fremlin, whom Munro remained with because she “loved him too much” to leave

The Independent UK

Nobel-winning writer’s daughter reveals she was sexually abused by stepfather and her mom stayed with him

Andrea Skinner says she was sexually abused by her step-father since the age of nine

International Business Times

Alice Munro's Daughter Says Stepdad Abused Her, And Mom Knew

Canadian writer Alice Munro's daughter said Sunday that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child and that her mother was told but stayed with him, in a damning account published after the Nobel laureate's death.

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The Guardian - AU

Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter

Andrea Robin Skinner says her stepfather sexually assaulted her when she was nine, but her mother said she ‘loved him too much’ to leave him

The Walrus

Alice Munro Was Bigger than Canada

Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes

The Conversation

Alice Munro wrote a 1970s play in southwestern Ontario — and continues to inspire regional theatre

This week, I’m elated that my play Post Alice will be performed on the Blyth Festival Theatre’s stage as part of the Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story in Huron County, the Huron Tract on Treaty 29 territory in southwestern Ontario. This region is also known to some readers…

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Alice Munro, master of the short story: superlative tales that exalt the drama of the everyday

Affectionately termed “Canada’s Chekov”, Alice Munro died on May 13 at the age of 92, leaving behind a unparalleled legacy of masterful short stories.

The Guardian - UK

‘Her stories are life itself’: Yiyun Li on the genius of Alice Munro

The Chinese American author of The Book of Goose pays tribute to the late writer, reflecting on the rich rewards of revisiting her stories over many years

The Conversation

Alice Munro followed the back roads of stories, mapping routes home to southwestern Ontario

Alice Munro, who has died at the age of 92, was a storyteller devoted to representing the rich complexity of human experience, often through her nuanced exploration of southwestern Ontario history and culture.

The Guardian - UK

‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

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