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‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

The Independent UK

Bukowski fan Tristan Sailor emerges from Dell's shadow

Brisbane's Tristan Sailor is an avid reader, has a commerce degree and is doing a computer programming course as he reveals what it's like having a famous dad.

AAP

The Derby is tamed — and that's a shame

The divide between the classes is as dramatic as ever in society and that is reflected at the Kentucky Derby

Salon

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Terry Gilliam: ‘Robin Williams was one of the most stunning people I’ve ever met’

The film-maker answers your questions on his famous collaborators, whether Brazil is a Christmas movie – and what he really thinks about baked beans

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m never bored’: Willem Dafoe on art, yoga – and alpacas

Willem Dafoe has made more than 150 movies, but in a forced break from filming he leaned into a new role. He talks about art, his new film Poor Things – and gentleman farming

The Guardian - UK

The year of sex, drugs and violence

The world, heading into 2024, has never looked better?

Salon

Ortiz Jr., A Future Star, Gets Back On Track January 6

This is Ortiz Jr’s first foray into the 154lbs weight class

Zenger

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The 32 greatest '90s movie characters

Slackers, hackers, and fashionable teenagers dominated the big screen in the '90s

Total Film

OPINION - Books of the year: The Evening Standard team choose their favourites

The Evening Standard columnist has infantilised Rupert Murdoch once before, in 2008’s The Man Who Owns the News, a magnificent biography that many in his family are still fuming about; so this fabulously gossipy book is a sequel of sorts, even if it does have a broader remit. And while…

Evening Standard

Gonzo Girl review – Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut is a disappointment

The actor makes an underwhelming first feature as film-maker, a thinly etched adaptation of Cheryl Della Pietra’s semi-autobiographical book

The Guardian - US

Drugs in the White House? Good God, no!

Politics has long been fueled by recreational substances of all kinds. This is fake news about a non-issue

Salon

Johnny Depp on his Cannes return and finding 'the basement to the bottom'

Just a year ago, the image of Johnny Depp smiling and waving atop the Palais steps at the Cannes Film Festival would have been unthinkable to most — including to Depp, himself

The Independent UK

Who is E. Jean Carroll? The writer and ex-agony aunt who brought down Donald Trump

Despite being ordered to pay magazine writer E. Jean Carroll £3.9 million in damages, after being found liable for sexually abusing her in a dressing room in the 1990s, Donald Trump is now counter-suing her for defamation. Here’s everything you need to know about the woman behind the headlines

Evening Standard

TV tonight: a documentary about ‘gonzo’ journalist Hunter S Thompson

A look at the American’s drug- and alcohol-fuelled writing from his legendary heyday in the 60s and 70s. Plus: there are deep-seated tensions in Rain Dogs. Here’s what to watch this evening

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'Ex-PM Liz Truss should keep her head down but blames everyone else for being booted out'

Keir Mudie says that while giving a 'nothing speech' to some Conservative think-tank, former Prime Minister Liz Truss showed how Tories blame the ills of the world on everyone but themselves

The Guardian - UK

Drugs and alcohol do not make you more creative, research finds

Travel, meditation, training and exposure to culture have a greater effect on artistic output

Tribune News Service

Rocket-fast snowmobiles less to blame for rider deaths than booze, inexperience

In the immortal words of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, God made fast motorcycles for one reason: "Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube."

Salon

How Joe Rogan does what he does

I went on Rogan's show — and it wasn't great. But I came away with a better understanding of why he's so popular

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The Guardian - UK

$26k for Joan Didion’s old books? Why are the rich obsessed with dead authors’ stuff?

She was no stranger to self-mythologising. But the prices fetched at her estate sale were more about glamour seeking substance, says writer Rachel Connolly

Los Angeles Times

A modern traveler’s guide to the magic of old Big Sur

LOS ANGELES — Feet wet and thoughts adrift, a handful of us slouched on wooden chairs in the middle of the Big Sur River, shaded by tall trees, surrounded by gently moving water.

The Orange County Register

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner writes about music and life in new memoir

Throughout his five decades at Rolling Stone, the magazine’s co-founder Jann Wenner wrote hundreds of articles and spent time with some of the biggest names in music — Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon and Bob Dylan, to name a few — and politics, too, including presidents Bill…

Evening Standard

Chaos, counter briefings and infighting – inside the Tory conference

Looking back at sixties California from the vantage point of murky 1971, Hunter S Thompson climbed a hill in nearby Las Vegas and looked West. "With the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark" he wrote. "That place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought drink and drugs enabled my creativity’: Julia Cameron on the drama behind The Artist’s Way

When even Hunter S Thompson tells you to take it easy, you must be overdoing it. The bestselling author talks about marrying Martin Scorsese, sobering up, and writing a bestseller

Salon

Andrew Yang won't go away: Is that good?

He couldn't get elected president, or even mayor. But he still thinks he can revolutionize American politics

The Guardian - UK

Sonny Barger obituary

Longtime Hells Angels president who cultivated his outlaw image and turned the motorcycle club into a global brand

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