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Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees creator Patrick Horvath's satirical sci-fi Free For All gets a range of awesome variant covers

Exclusive | Check out all of Free For All's covers

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Queen praises community resilience as library torched during riots reopens

Spellow Community Hub and Library in Walton, Liverpool, has been closed since August.

Evening Standard

The book behind Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of magic realism - here’s why I love it

The seminal novel follows seven generations of the Buendía family in an isolated town

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'We don’t stock that sort of book’: Woman who self-published story for autistic son inspires TV show

EXCLUSIVE The Jodie Whittaker animated series returns for a Christmas special along with a charity single performed by singer Paloma Faith

Evening Standard

French Court Finds Writer "Guilty of Denying the 1994 Rwandan Genocide"

I've long opposed Holocaust denial bans, partly because of the slippery slope / censorship envy problem: Unsurprisingly, such bans tend… The post French Court Finds Writer "Guilty of Denying the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" appeared first on Reason.com.

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From the Baillie Gifford to the Giller: can literary prizes survive protests against sponsors?

Writers have been coming out against companies that fund awards, with serious implications for the books industry

The Guardian - UK

Seven Victorian paper craft projects that could cut your Christmas consumption

The Victorians are often credited with the invention of Christmas as we know it. That’s because the culture of Christmas was transformed during this period and expanded into a major holiday. It’s when several familiar Christmas staples emerged, such as decorated trees, cards and crackers.

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Obsessing over the ‘true’ meaning of lyrics misses the point of songwriting

Many of us assume that everything a musician sings emerges from some autobiographical impulse. Pop music lyrics in particular are often read literally by fans as transparent disclosures about the singer’s life.

The Conversation

Anti-Insurance Industry Book Linked to Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Sells Out on Amazon After Surging to Top of Best Seller List

An anti-insurance industry book that multiple reports believe to be linked to the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has sold out of physical copies on Amazon.

Latin Times

‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ becomes Amazon bestseller after words carved into bullets used to killed UnitedHealthcare CEO

The cryptic message found on the bullet casings at the scene of the Midtown murder could refer to the ‘the three D’s of insurance’ — deny, delay, and defend — which is also the title of a book critical of the insurance industry

The Independent UK

Book climbs bestseller list after title was apparently cited on bullet casings at scene of CEO’s death

Jay Feinman’s book that exposes ways insurance companies avoid paying claims hit No 2 on Amazon’s nonfiction list

The Guardian - US

Queer: Daniel Craig is superb in this courageous William Burroughs adaptation

In the early 1950s, William Burroughs – drug addict, homosexual and pioneering writer of what would come to be called the Beat generation – found himself in Mexico City. On the run after accidentally shooting his wife, Joan, during a drunken game of William Tell, Burroughs relished the freedom granted…

The Conversation

Peacock Has Been Quietly Releasing The Most Surprising Spy Thriller Of The Year

Peacock’s 'The Day of the Jackal' reboot may get bogged down in minutiae, but it’s still a worthwhile slow burn.

Inverse

Netflix Just Quietly Released A Surreal Epic Masterpiece

One of the greatest books at all time gets an equally ambitious streaming adaptation.

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The Guardian - UK

A Dream of White Horses by Paul Scraton review – images of exile

A photographer sets out to make a ‘personal geography’ of his native Germany in this poetic tale of loss and belonging

The Guardian - US

‘These are magic books’: bringing imaginary works of literature to life

A whimsical new exhibition assembles a range of books that don’t exist, from Byron’s destroyed memoirs to Shakespeare’s lost play

The Guardian - UK

Myself and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell review – hidden gems

A collection of articles, talks, letters and unpublished writing fills important gaps in the great naturalist’s life story

The Guardian - UK

One Hundred Years of Solitude review – Gabriel García Márquez’s classic makes for startling TV beauty

This 16-part series does justice to Gabriel García Márquez’s magical-realist masterwork – although the novel’s sexual politics have aged badly

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The Independent UK

Netflix’s new adaptation of this beloved book is pretty much perfect

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel, weaves superstition, sex and the surreal into an unparallelled Spanish-language epic. Helen Coffey assesses whether a new Netflix show can possibly do justice to the original

Evening Standard

Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid best-selling book of the year on Amazon UK

Rory Stewart’s memoir Politics On The Edge topped the biography category.

The Independent UK

Amazon keeps having to pull merch related to Brian Thompson’s murder from online shelves

Amazon said the items violated its guidelines

Latin Times

Veteran Ohio Public School Teacher Suspended Without Pay Over Pro-LGBTQ Books in Classroom

An Ohio teacher with over 30 years of service has filed a lawsuit after being suspended for including books with LGBTQ+ characters in her classroom library.

The Guardian - UK

Why we must save English literature degrees

Letters: Cancelling degree courses on the subject is a form of cultural vandalism, says Linden West. Plus a letter from Diana Hirst

The Guardian - UK

James Fleming obituary

Novelist and editor who owned the Book Collector, the magazine founded by his uncle and James Bond creator Ian

The Conversation

Haruki Murakami and the challenge of translating Japanese’s many words for “I”

Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, The City and its Uncertain Walls, revolves around two parallel stories, one focusing on a 17-year-old boy, the other on a 45-year-old man. Readers of the translated English version will gradually become aware of the two worlds, as each first-person narrator establishes his respective setting…

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