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Five children’s books that feature positive male role models – from toddlers to teens

We are facing an apparent crisis of masculinity among young boys. As the success of the Netflix show Adolescence has highlighted, young men are lacking positive role models – and increasingly looking to misogynistic online influencers to fill the void.

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Texas’ First Black Woman Poet Laureate Spreads Poems of Praise

In tough times, Amanda Johnston is creating a community of gratitude with contributions from poets all across the state.

Texas Observer

Scottish festival director to step down after 20 years and an OBE

THE director of a popular Scottish festival is to step down after 20 years ...

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‘Flying is an act of surrender’: a new novel about a woman who wants to be ravished by an Airbus

Kate Folk on Sky Daddy, a book about sex, death and plane crashes that’s taking off in these turbulent times

The Guardian - US

“A Deep Deficit”: Barack Obama Stuns With Honest Admission About The State Of His Marriage

“I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole,” Barack Obama said as he shared an update on the state of his marriage with Michelle Obama.

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George M. Johnson's 'All Boys Aren't Blue' tops 2024 list of most 'challenged' US library books

The American Library Association has unveiled the 10 most “challenged books” of 2024

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Poem of the week: A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth by Ben Jonson

A strategically flattering tribute to a pioneering female writer is lifted by authentic warmth and admiration

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Amazon Kindle gets a free feature upgrade borrowed from TV

Amazon has announced a new Kindle feature that is perfect for those who love a book series.

Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come

Sketched in cinematic black and white, this illustrated interpretation of the late author’s postmodern detective novel is a ‘stone-cold masterpiece’

The Guardian - UK

Kerry Greenwood, Australian author of Phryne Fisher murder mysteries, dies aged 70

Partner confirms death of prolific author, criminal lawyer and playwright after illness in her home city of Melbourne

The Guardian - AU

Tributes flow for Phryne Fisher author Kerry Greenwood

Australian author Kerry Greenwood - who wrote the popular Phryne Fisher historical detective series - has died at the age of 70.

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Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne review – complicity, courage and cowardice examined in a slippery marvel

The Submarine author employs that novel’s warmth and wit in his investigation into whether his great-grandfather knowingly helped to make chemical weapons for the Nazis

The Guardian - UK

Lori Vallow Daybell: ‘Doomsday’ mom who killed two of her children goes on trial over death of husband

A woman who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to kill a romantic rival is on trial again

The Independent UK

Prince Philip Was "Quite Ready to Die" But Queen Elizabeth Was Left With a "Huge Void"

"I have absolutely no desire to cling on to life unnecessarily. Ghastly prospect."

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The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2025 – enter now!

The annual award for aspiring cartoonists – which now boasts its own evening event – offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners landing book and film deals

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“Toxic Female”: Woman Who Slept With 200 Men After Cancer Diagnosis Leaves Stirring Note

"I realize I did get to fall in love. I am in love. With me."

The Guardian - UK

We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – the forgotten voices of black Britain

The author’s sharply intelligent history of how black British identity was forged beyond London in the cauldron of the Thatcherite 1970s and 80s is a necessary corrective

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NASA website removes 'First Woman' graphic novel — but here's where you can still find it

The interactive female astronaut series was created to inspire a new generation of space explorers.

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Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis review – an Iraqi Jew’s celebration of an endangered culture

In this deeply personal but wryly funny memoir, the author examines her Middle Eastern ancestry and asks what it means to witness her community and their traditions fade from memory

The Guardian - UK

Alex Wheatle obituary

Author of the Crongton novels whose stories of inner-city life give a realistic portrait of growing up in contemporary Britain

The Guardian - UK

The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – a warm story of second starts

A bereaved woman forms new relationships in the author’s first novel in seven years, a tender and funny tale of forgiveness

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Bad Nature; Bad Friend; The Flitting – review

An impelling US road-trip for our times; an enlightening cultural history of female friendships; and a bond forged over butterflies for a son and his dying father

The National (Scotland)

The new book from Scotland which delves into how Russia operates

From a Western perspective, it’s often hard to understand why the Russian people would support a man like President Vladimir Putin and fail to…

The Guardian - AU

Handle with care: the international community sending parcels of pure joy through the mail

Anna Ryan-Punch was 15 when she received her first friendship book. It was the start of a lifelong hobby

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Oisín Fagan: ‘I was at the altar of literature and had its fire in me’

The Irish author on his new ‘violent seafaring epic’, his appetite for body horror and living his entire life book-first

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