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The Cave review – dark-humoured tale of brothers’ emotional descent

Tommy Tiernan and Aaron Monaghan are given comedic free rein as a pair of hapless, homeless siblings in Kevin Barry’s Beckettian take on rural dysfunction

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: This Year Her Present by Victoria Melkovska

Gifts sent from a loved one abroad at first bring warmth and joy, then grave alarm

The Guardian - UK

The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things

From Picasso to Joyce, we’re hopelessly in thrall to the fallacy of the all-conquering intellect. Or are we?

The Guardian - UK

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Welsh Bible printed in 1588 to go on display in Wales for first time

The bible has been kept in Westminster Abbey’s library collection since the year it was printed.

Evening Standard

The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine review – a polyphonic portrait of class and trauma in Belfast

The acclaimed short-story writer brings her characters vividly to life in this debut novel about a teenage girl’s assault and its aftermath

The Guardian - UK

‘When I stopped racing I thought, who am I?’: Pippa York on leaving her old life behind

The Tour de France stage winner talks in detail for the first time about transitioning when her cycling career ended, growing up in the Gorbals and alienation in the peloton

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Women’s prize for nonfiction: shining a light where it’s badly needed

Editorial: Having a separate award was good for female novelists. Now a medical author is blazing a trail with a true story

The Guardian - UK

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Guardian writer Frances Ryan named one of Vogue’s 25 women ‘defining Britain’

Magazine says Ryan’s efforts to spotlight lives of disabled people are ‘needed more than ever’

The Guardian - UK

Like Prince Harry, my memoir estranged me from my family

“Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. They will never forgive me for lots of things.” I stopped dead, almost dropping the glass I was holding; my face hot, my hands trembling. I turned the interview up, rewinding the snippet again and…

Evening Standard

Kathy Lette looks back: ‘Older women are invisible, so I make sure to do something outrageous every day’

The author on her love for Spike Milligan, the furore over Puberty Blues, and why being middle-aged is great

The Guardian - UK

‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark

From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future

The Guardian - UK

Val McDermid to premiere new play exploring Christopher Marlowe’s death

THE first readings of a play by Scotland’s “Queen of Crime” are to be held this summer in Pitlochry and Edinburgh

The National (Scotland)

Flipping the bird at an old man wasn’t exactly in my playbook. It felt like a rupture

Author Tegan Bennett Daylight had spent a life listening to men’s stories and opinions about her. In a quiet library one day, she had enough

The Guardian - AU

Speaking out on Gaza: Australian creatives and arts organisations struggle to reconcile competing pressures

As cultural institutions respond to political statements on the war, many artists say they face a choice between career opportunities and standing up for their beliefs

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The final fact-check of Joan Didion

One of the year’s best books yet shows us an author at odds with her own storytelling

The Guardian - UK

KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals

Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations

The Independent UK

The home of one of the largest catalogs of Black history turns 100 in New York

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: a kiss that led to a years-long nightmare, the Dull Men’s Club, and a famous feminist mother

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan

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‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant

The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writes

The Guardian - UK

Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersex

The Guardian - UK

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked

Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

Latin Times

Judy Blume Classic, ACOTAR Among Books Declared 'Pornography' by Florida Board of Education, Superintendent Threatened With Prosecution

Florida's education board forced the permanent removal of 55 books, including Judy Blume's Forever, by threatening a school superintendent with prosecution.

The Independent UK

Women’s Prize winner Rachel Clarke issues plea to Wes Streeting as NHS doctors face unemployment

Author and palliative care doctor won the literary award for her fourth book, ‘The Story of a Heart’

Cycling Weekly

Bradley Wiggins announces new book: 'The most honest and personal one I've ever written'

Wiggins's latest autobiography, 'The Chain', will be published on 25 October

Inverse

10 Years Ago, The Best Fantasy Epic You've Never Heard Of Flew Under The Radar

Though now forgotten, 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell' quietly blew all its other post-Game of Thrones competitors out of the water.

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