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Future Library: Norway planted 1,000 trees for a library no one can read until 2114, when the forest will be cut down to print 100 secret books

A unique literary project is planting one thousand trees near Oslo for future paper. These trees will become pages for one hundred manuscripts written by global authors. The manuscripts are currently stored unread, awaiting their eventual publication in 2114. This initiative explores cultural preservation and the concept of writing for…

The Times of India

Poetic line of the day from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 'I miss you more than I remember you.' Life lessons on love, regret and memories that refuse to fade

Poetic line of the day: Ocean Vuong's novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous offers a profound insight into love, loss and memory. The line, "I miss you more than I remember you," beautifully captures how feelings can outlast fading memories. It reminds us to cherish the people and experiences in…

The Economic Times

‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe?

With the constant risk of being recorded, many young people are afraid of showing enthusiasm – let alone doing something so potentially embarrassing as dancing in public. Is there a way to set themselves free?

The Guardian - UK

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Trump tweets, penguins and human-sized chess: NGV unveils blockbuster 2026 Triennial

Jenny Holzer, Ocean Vuong and Wolfgang Tillmans are among nearly 100 artists from 35 countries taking part in the huge, entirely free Melbourne exhibition

The Guardian - AU

If You Haven’t Cringed In A While, These 61 Photos Might Remind You What That Feeling Is Like (New Pics)

Embarrassing humblebrags, pointless lies, and attention-seeking posts are the bread and butter of online cringe. They're like a train wreck: you cringe with your whole body but can't look away. Here are some of the most cringe-inducing posts we've come across online lately to bring you some painful second-hand embarrassment.

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The nine worst mothers in literature – according to our experts

For Mother’s Day, we asked nine of our academic experts to tell us who they think is the worst mother in literature. From serious villains to children’s book baddies, these mothers subvert every maternal instinct.

The Conversation

Gisèle Pelicot and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among Hay Festival 2026 speakers

The line-up for this year’s festival includes Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Ian McEwan and other prominent authors and figures

The Guardian - UK

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The Overly Revealing And Totally Annoying Truth About Sleep Diaries

A dad in Brooklyn tracks his sleep and promises he's not bragging when he says he really can sleep through anything — bad habits and all.

Inverse

‘The Village of the Damned was shot here – then George Harrison bought a house’: our UK town of culture nominations

With the search for the country’s first town of culture under way, Guardian writers pick their favourite spots for art, architecture, food, festivals, music and celeb spotting

The Guardian - UK

Should I care what Sarah Jessica Parker thinks about books?

She swept all before her at the Booker prize ceremony, but I’m running out of patience with celebrity influence in publishing, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Guardian - UK

Next manuscript by Amitav Ghosh to be kept sealed for 89 years

The Indian author is the next Future Library writer, set to submit a secret work to be locked in a library until 2114

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

25 Books By LGBTQ+ Authors You Need to Add to Your Reading List

You won't be able to put down these moving memoirs and touching romances.

Marie Claire

Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick, 'Culpability,' delves into AI ethics

Oprah Winfrey has selected Bruce Holsinger's novel "Culpability" as her latest book club pick

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Digested week: Climate warning provides more fuel for Brits to talk about weather

Heatwave and an invitation to name storms created record-breaking opportunities to indulge nation’s favourite pastime

The Guardian - AU

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died

The Independent UK

Major social media platforms fail to protect LGBTQ users, advocacy group GLAAD says

Major social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual Social Media Safety Index

The Independent UK

Ocean Vuong's new novel, 'The Emperor of Gladness,' is Winfrey's latest book club pick

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers

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The Guardian - UK

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong review – heartbreak and hope

The follow-up to On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a tale of precarity and connection in smalltown Connecticut

The Guardian - UK

‘Buddhism and Björk help me handle fame’: novelist Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous made him a literary superstar. Now the Vietnamese American author is exploring his working-class roots in an ambitious follow‑up

The Guardian - AU

Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism tour review – momentous show for a star who contains multitudes

Lipa’s voice is resonant and fit and she holds her own as a dancer; while there are lulls in energy between the show’s acts, they’re forgiven when she brings the hits

The Walrus

Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time

Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust

The Guardian - UK

TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’

The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf

The Guardian - UK

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel

A young queer activist looks back on how a complex life unspooled into a final, fatal act in the award-winning poet’s ambitious, unflinching tale

The Guardian - UK

Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114

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