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This was my favourite read of the summer – now it’s been Booker 2025 shortlisted

Judge Sarah Jessica Parker described whittling down the list as “real agony”

The Independent UK

The 'Powerless' TV Show: Everything We Know About the Prime Video Adaptation

A Prime Video show based on the romantasy books is coming, and fans can trust "the right guy" will be cast as Kai.

Marie Claire

What’s With Baum? by Woody Allen review – the film-maker’s late-life first novel

Good gags abound in this tale of a bespectacled Jewish writer caught up in a #MeToo takedown – just don’t expect any surprises

The Guardian - UK

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On Antisemitism by Mark Mazower review – parsing prejudice

A historian examines the age-old phenomenon of anti-Jewish hatred and the emergence of a word to define it

The Guardian - UK

‘I fell in a deep puddle running from police’: photographing London’s underground raves

Away from the light and glamour of mainstream clubbing, Yushy spent three years recording a shadowy parallel scene: one built on mutual trust and secret group chats

The Guardian - UK

A piano, a pregnant woman and a prison: Raymond Chandler's 'Nightmare' is revealed

Raymond Chandler's “Nightmare,” a rarely seen sketch, has been published this week in The Strand Magazine

The Independent UK

‘It goes beyond getting a cash refund for slavery’: Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder on the case for reparations

With their new book, Henry and Ryder are determined to start a discussion about compensation for the descendants of slaves. But how would any scheme work? And why is it yet to happen?

The Guardian - UK

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Was Tom Blyth Bummed That He Wasn't Asked Back For The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping? What He Said About The New President Snow Getting Cast

How the young President Snow actor reacted to the news.

Cinemablend

New Welcome to Derry trailer introduces a Stephen King cinematic universe featuring The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, and an appearance from a young Pennywise

There's even a real-life nod to an Iowa theater famous for showing Carrie

Total Film

Booker Prize 2025 shortlist revealed: which six books are Sarah Jessica Parker approved?

The 13 books of the ‘Booker dozen’ has been winnowed down to just six novels — all from very established authors but only one Brit

Evening Standard

Kiran Desai among top contenders for 2025 Booker Prize with first novel in 2 decades

Desai last won the Booker in 2006 with her novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’

The Independent UK

‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist

No debut novels are among the six finalists, with established authors including Ben Markovits and previously shortlisted Andrew Miller in the running

The Guardian - UK

As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them

Ben Markovits, David Szalay, Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura’s books will all take you on enthralling journeys

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize shortlist 2025: Six ‘brilliantly written and brilliantly human’ stories

Shortlisted authors are examining ‘individuals trying to live with other people’

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Antony Maitland obituary

Illustrator and writer whose intricate drawings helped shape the look of children’s novels of the 60s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

David Hirst obituary

The Guardian’s Middle East correspondent for four decades whose articles were key to understanding the region’s turmoil

Evening Standard

Emma at the Rose Theatre: Jane Austen will be laughing in her grave

3/5 Ava Pickett’s new adaptation is not for purists, but it is very funny

Woman & Home

Queen Elizabeth asked doctors to 'keep her alive' for special royal milestone, claims former royal butler

Paul Burrell has alleged in his memoir that the late Queen really wanted to see a key moment come to pass

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Marie Claire

Mona Awad Has a Thing for "Dark Enchantment" Books—Here’s What She's Reading

The 'We Love You, Bunny' author has a thing for books about "dark enchantment."

Marie Claire

16 Magical, Must-Read Books About Witches and Witchcraft

Your spooky season reading list has arrived.

The Guardian - UK

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside

The cult author’s autofictional follow-up to No One Is Talking About This is the story of a breakdown

The Independent UK

Woody Allen: What’s With Baum? review – An incorrigibly button-pushing story of male lechery

2/5 The filmmaker touches on forbidden desire and sexual scandal in his too-slight debut novel

Axios

Biden response to Gaza was "inadequate," Harris says in book

It's part of Harris' larger effort in the book to distance herself from Biden after not doing so during last year's campaign.

The Guardian - UK

‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir

Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the same

The Guardian - UK

Young Finns snub their mother tongue by reading in English

Publishers fear for the future of translated literature as sales of foreign language books rise

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