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Shannon Burns' Childhood is a story of disconnection, neglect, violence and poverty

Shannon Burns’ memoir Childhood begins with an epigraph from Leo Tolstoy’s book of the same name:

The Conversation

‘Hope matters’: Ukrainian and international authors on why literature is important in times of conflict

Ten writers appearing at the Lviv BookForum, run this year in partnership with the Hay festival, discuss why we need books more than ever

The Guardian - UK

Gandhi Jayanti 2022: History, Significance, facts, celebration and all you need to know

Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated on 2nd October every year to mark the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was famously known as Mahatma Gandhi. This day is celebrated all over the country, even outside the country by the followers of Mahatma Gandhi. He is honoured for his invaluable contributions…

The Times of India

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First sitcom, first chef, first castaway, first dance and first Woman’s Hour: 100 years of the BBC, part three

Desert Islands Discs launched, a raffish bachelor made sitcom history, hoofers had a riot and a man called Alan hosted Woman’s Hour – which revealed how to keep your husband’s suits crease-free

The Guardian - UK

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Mexico officials abused 47% of migrants awaiting US asylum, rights group says

Tribune News Service

Miami school district says it denied Pulitzer play due to racy scenes. Others say censorship

MIAMI — Days after the Miami-Dade County School District denied students from attending Miami New Drama’s production of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Anna in the Tropics,” school officials pointed to lines and imagery they considered to be “sexually explicit” or inappropriate for school-aged children.

Miami Herald

I’m going through hell for the sake of art. Tolstoy or Henry James could learn a thing or two

There’s nothing like recording an audiobook to make you question every word you write. The classics would definitely take a trim

The Guardian - UK

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How Tolstoy hurts Putin's attempt to rewrite history

On April 10, Moscow police arrested Konstantin Goldman for brandishing a book in public. Mr Goldman had posted an image on social media in which he posed holding a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace next to a section of a World War II monument that commemorates Kyiv's status as…

Bangkok Post

New York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th edition

The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Gray’s Queens coming-of-age drama “Armageddon Time” and Laura Poitras’ documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” about artist Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family

The Independent UK

77th anniversary of A-bombing commemorated in Hiroshima / Mayor slams Russia in peace declaration

HIROSHIMA -- Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on the world to "immediately render all nuclear buttons meaningless" in his peace declaration at a ceremony on the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city on Saturday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Tess Gerritsen: ‘There’s always comfort in Sherlock Holmes’

The US novelist on being immersed in The Hobbit, an inspirational Woman Warrior, and sobbing on the beach reading the Aeneid

The Guardian - UK

How Russia's current war in Ukraine echoes its Crimean War of the 1850s

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

WEKU

Vladimir Putin's loyalists threaten to grab back Alaska from US for Russia

Russia's most senior parliamentarian Vyacheslav Volodin warned that the Kremlin could take back Alaska from the United States if the West confiscates its billions

Daily Mirror

In Ukraine, this summer means blood and sirens – but fishing and the theatre go on

While locals donate blood for the injured and relatives of the missing provide DNA, glimmers of our normal life cling on, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

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As the virus of totalitarianism begins to infect India, the immune system of the Republic needs to be reinvigorated

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Monkeypox is not our next pandemic, but it has lessons for us

Monkeypox is a viral disease, distantly related to its far more deadly cousin, smallpox. So far this year, it has been discovered in dozens of countries that are generally not familiar with monkeypox, with about 113 cases in the U.S., 15 of them in Illinois.

The Conversation

Plagiarism, John Hughes’ The Dogs and the ethical responsibilities of the novelist

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

The Independent UK

Ukraine to ban Russian books and music to ‘derussify’ country

New legislation necessary to rid Ukraine of Russian cultural influences, minister says

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Literary experts find John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing

Scholars respond to author’s explanation for his new book appearing to copy some parts of classic texts

The Guardian - AU

Parts of John Hughes’ novel The Dogs copied from The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina

Australian author denies he is a plagiarist and says he has been ‘influenced by the greats’ of literature

Reuters

Don't close the embassy, U.S. ambassador tells Russia

Russia should not close the U.S. embassy despite the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine because the world's two biggest nuclear powers must continue to talk, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying on Monday.

Salon

Wait, men can lactate?

It is possible for men to lactate — but the science behind it is not as simple as you might think

Foreign Policy

Where the West and China Find Common Ground

A striking new translation of Chinese fairy tales shows a shared folkloric tradition.

Foreign Affairs

The Coup in the Kremlin

How Putin and the Security Services Captured the Russian State

The Conversation

Is Russia increasingly likely to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine?

At the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin reminded the West that Russia had nuclear weapons by putting them on “special combat readiness.”

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