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Secret oaths and blacked-out windows: what happens inside the papal conclave?

The conclave that begins in Vatican City on Wednesday is the process of electing the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. Shrouded in mystery, with all those involved sworn to secrecy on threat of ex-communication, what do we know about what goes on behind the sealed doors of…

Radio France Internationale

The Names by Florence Knapp – the verdict on spring’s hottest debut

In this strikingly assured sliding doors tale, three alternate narratives unfold, showing how the choice of a name influences a life

The Guardian - UK

Authors Slam Baltimore Book Festival as 'A Slap in the Face' After Arriving to Find Barren Convention Center

More than 100 authors lost thousands of dollars after attending the first-ever A Million Lives Book Festival in Baltimore over the weekend.

Latin Times

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Romantasy ball labeled the ‘Fyre Fest of Booktok’ as organiser apologizes for disastrous convention

The viral book convention took place in Baltimore, Maryland, over the weekend

The Independent UK

Polly Noakes announced as winner of Oscar's Book Prize for 'touching' story of friendship

Just The Two Of Us was chosen ahead of five other titles

Evening Standard

A new publisher is focussing on books by men – but is this necessary?

ANALYSIS: Men are outnumbered by women on bestseller lists, writes Julian Novitz

The Independent UK

Fostering a lifelong love of reading in children

Letters: Readers respond to a survey that suggests most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children and question why that is

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"Crime Junkie" Host and Mystery Author Ashley Flowers Shares Her Must-Read Crime Books

'The Missing Half' author/podcaster knows a good whodunit.

Marie Claire

Is Dua Lipa the best literary interviewer?

The Houdini singer’s online book club is already a hit. Now her interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning authors are gaining new fans

The Guardian - UK

Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter review – a Saltburn-style story of identity

A mixed-race musician is drawn into the unfamiliar milieu of an upper-class family in this plotty debut

The Guardian - UK

Emma Jane Unsworth on new book ‘Slags’: ‘Women are encouraged to feel ashamed of our fantasies’

INTERVIEW: The author of ‘Animals’ and ‘Adults’ talks to Helen Coffey about drugs, booze and oblivion, creating characters ‘that are fun to be around’ and why sibling relationships can be the most complicated of our lives

The Independent UK

Prayers, Pride In Philippine Papal Contender's Hometown

Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may be one of the favourites to be named the next pope, but a Catholic Sister who has known him for half a century says she will never pray for it to happen.

International Business Times

Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary

The poet gets the prestigious award for New Yorker essays ‘on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza’ amid war.

Al Jazeera

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza

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Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts

Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Total Film

The first post-Rise of Skywalker Star Wars project won't be the Ryan Gosling movie, but a new novel starring Finn and Jannah

Star Wars: The Last Order will be the first story set after The Rise of Skywalker

The Independent UK

Theater producer Jeffrey Seller, behind 'Rent' and 'Hamilton,' shines a light on his own journey

Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind such landmark hits as “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “Hamilton,” didn’t initially write a memoir for us

The Independent UK

Lovie Simone leads new series that adapts Judy Blume's 'Forever...' for TV

Lovie Simone stars in the new Netflix series, “Forever.'

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A civil war in Chile and a president's death by suicide inspired Isabel Allende's new novel

A bloody civil war and the death by suicide of an ousted president served as inspiration for Isabel Allende’s most recent novel, “My Name is Emilia del Valle.”

Evening Standard

Schoolchildren and veterans co-author book of memories for VE Day

Recollections of evacuation, rationing and life after the war were documented in My Life Through WW2.

Marie Claire

Princess Diana Repeated This Surprising Mantra When "Things Got Too Much for Her" With Prince Charles

The late princess took "great strength" from one of her qualities.

The Guardian - UK

‘It normalises the abhorrent’: is The Handmaid’s Tale the most frustrating show on TV?

As the world edges ever closer to authoritarianism, it would be incredible to watch June fight back against a hellish, misogynistic dystopia. And yet, the final season is as bleak as ever. Where’s the hope we all need?

The Guardian - UK

Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers

Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd

Louder

"As enjoyable as it is, this seems to be a footnote in the careers of everyone involved": Mixed results as Roger Glover gets his mates in on The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper's Feast

Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover's endearing all-star 1974 period piece revisited

The Guardian - UK

Dream State by Eric Puchner review – an epic tale of paradise lost

A love triangle plays out across generations in this brilliantly panoramic tale of family ties

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