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A scrum of spectators and an elephant in the room during Lucy Letby retrial

There was keen interest in seeing the former nurse give evidence and at one point she gave a flicker of emotion

The Guardian - UK

Why the New Yorker blocked UK website readers from its Lucy Letby story – an expert explains

A 13,000-word article in The New Yorker magazine about convicted murderer Lucy Letby is blocked to UK online readers.

The Conversation

‘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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Five of the best Alice Munro short stories

The greatest examples of the late writer’s uncanny ability to capture the many complexities of life range from stories of sex to loneliness

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70 Black And White One-Panel Comics By A Talented Cartoonist

Mark's one-panel comics range from Cupid jokes to business gags to music ones. The post 70 Black And White One-Panel Comics By A Talented Cartoonist first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The New Yorker's gorgeous optical illusion cover is a spring delight

Can you spot the cat?

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Liu Cixin: ‘I’m often asked – there’s science fiction in China?’

Author of sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem – newly serialised by Netflix – on ‘the greatest uncertainty facing humanity’ and how finding a secret copy of a Jules Verne novel inspired his career

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Sofia Coppola reveals why Apple TV Plus execs pulled out on Wharton project

Director sheds details on why a pricey film project was shelved

iMore

Comedy's Truthiness Problem

Hasan Minhaj’s stand-up tests the boundaries of fact and fiction.

Reason

The year Jeremy Strong brought me out of my motherhood slumber and back to life

When I had a baby I planned for my new offline, mother-self to merge with my old selves: writer, reader. How far off reality was

The Guardian - AU

More than 4,000 pages of Epstein files have been released. These questions remain unanswered

Very few new details and names have emerged in the more than 4,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files that have been unsealed. Judge Loretta Preska has yet to rule on whether the names of two J Does mentioned in the documents will be released to the public. Andrea Blanco reports

The Independent UK

Public libraries reveal their most borrowed books of 2023

Not all libraries track checkouts, and there isn't one definitive national list. But this year lots of people checked out Lessons in Chemistry, Prince Harry's memoir Spare, and Colleen Hoover's books.

WEKU

‘Lying for the laugh’: should comedians tell us the truth?

The controversy over Hasan Minhaj’s onstage storytelling was a sign of the shifting demands placed on standup comics

The Guardian - US

Despite backlash, Masha Gessen says comparing Gaza to a Nazi-era ghetto is necessary

Journalist Masha Gessen talks to NPR's Morning Edition about their recent New Yorker essay on German Holocaust memory and the situation in Gaza — and the controversy that ensued.

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The Walrus’s Most Memorable Magazine Covers

Art directors past and present reveal the stories behind the eye-catching illustrations and photography

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Detained Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha released by Israeli forces

A friend of the writer says he was beaten while in Israeli detention and was receiving medical treatment in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha detained by Israelis in Gaza, family says

The American Book Award winner was said to be heading south for the Rafah crossing when he was picked up at a checkpoint

The Guardian - US

‘Books keep our minds free’: US prisons ban reading materials at alarming pace

New PEN America data reveals incarcerated persons are being robbed of magazines and even recipe books

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Salon

The manufactured Hasan Minhaj scandal

What happens when a fact-checking story ignores the facts?

Reason

Weekend Blackout

Plus: Russian riot, Hasan Minhaj vs. The New Yorker, the Nancy Pelosi haunted house, and more...

The Guardian - UK

Cat Person review – tense adaptation of the viral dating short story

This deftly explored gen Z-meets-millennial courtship, based on Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker story, loses its way in a violent third act

The Independent UK

Cat Person terrified men and thrilled female readers – has anything changed?

Published in the white heat of the #MeToo moment, Kristen Roupenian’s viral ‘New Yorker’ short story about a bad date and dodgy sexual dynamics captured the zeitgeist, writes Jessie Thompson. This week, a film adaptation arrives in cinemas – what will audiences make of this tale of terrible sex, six…

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‘Needlessly misleading’: Comedian Hasan Minhaj rebuts New Yorker, says it omitted, misconstrued statements

On September 15, The New Yorker published an exposé on comedian Hasan Minhaj, claiming the racist and Islamophobic experiences he recounts as a South Asian Muslim American in his stand-up shows are “fabrications”.

WEKU

'The New Yorker' fact-checked Hasan Minhaj — now he's issued a rebuttal

The New Yorker's profile of Minhaj said he exaggerated or made up stories for effect in his comedy specials. Here's how the comic responded in a 21-minute video.

The Independent UK

Hasan Minhaj: Comedian denies using ‘fake racism’ to advance career, ‘I’m not a psycho’

Comedian admitted to exaggerating certain details in his stand-up routines in a September New Yorker profile

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