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Salman Rushdie’s attacker came ‘dangerously close to committing murder’ during frenzied stabbing, court hears

Hadi Matar, 27, was heard saying ‘Free Palestine’ as he entered court in Chautauqua Lake, New York

The Independent UK

A life in quotes: Tom Robbins

The bestselling counterculture novelist, whose books included Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction, has died at 92

The Guardian - US

Trump Team Worried Iran Would Try To Assassinate Him By Downing His Plane, New Book Reveals: 'You're a F---ing Target'

The concern was such that at one point it made Trump travel in a decoy plane

Latin Times

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5 premium online research tools all Philly students can use for free

Years ago, as a high school librarian in suburban Philadelphia, I hosted a group of honors students from a high school just across the nearby city border. With the support of their alumni association, the city students planned to build a library at their school.

The Conversation

Ex-supreme court judge says ‘arguable case’ Israel’s conduct in Gaza is genocidal

Lord Sumption says Israel’s actions ‘grossly disproportionate’ and in new book points to suppression of free speech over Palestinian cause

The Guardian - UK

‘It shook everyone up’: New York town hosting Salman Rushdie trial recalls knife attack

A liberal arts community finds itself hosting the closely watched trial of man accused of stabbing novelist in 2022

The Guardian - US

Israeli police raid Palestinian bookstore in east Jerusalem and confiscate books about the conflict

Israeli police have raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict

The Independent UK

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Pig Heart Boy review – lively staging of Malorie Blackman’s stimulating novel

Winsome Pinnock adapts the story of a teenager whose heart transplant causes controversy but the comedy drowns out the issues

The Guardian - UK

Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues author dies, aged 92

Writer was known for his audacious metaphors and ‘seriocomic’ tone

The Independent UK

Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners

Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as attempt to create ‘culture of fear’ among Palestinian intellectuals

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie trial hears accused came ‘dangerously close to murder’

Prosecutors begin case against Hadi Matar, charged with attempted murder and assault over festival attack in 2022

The Guardian - US

Opening statements set in trial of man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie

Lawyers are set to deliver opening statements at the trial of the man charged with trying to fatally stab author Salman Rushdie in front of a lecture audience in western New York

The Independent UK

Banned Australian children's author launches book prize

An Australian author has launched a literary prize for works that break through gender stereotypes after one of his children's books was banned in Malaysia.

AAP

We Do Not Part by Han Kang review – a harrowing journey into South Korea’s bloody history

The Nobel prize-winner’s strange and unsettling new novel takes its protagonist on a mission that ends up confronting terrible pre-war violence

The Guardian - UK

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Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof review – fire and energy in a new septology

This intense tale of lives connected to the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 is hardly conventional, but undoubtedly exciting

Inverse

Benedict Cumberbatch’s Surreal New Thriller Is A Misguided Metaphor On Grief

Despite an impressive performance from Benedict Cumberbatch, 'The Thing With Feathers' drowns in its own metaphor.

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s dislike of real politics is plain to see. It’s why his government has no direction

In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth and an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Don’t Make Me Laugh by Julia Raeside review – did you hear the one about the toxic standup?

Set in the London comedy world, this provocative and funny debut novel explores the grey areas of coercion and intimacy

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The Guardian - US

‘Stand up for what’s right’: Melville House co-founder on publishing Jack Smith and Tulsa reports

Stunned by Donald Trump’s return, Dennis Johnson saw a chance to hit back by publishing official reports into shameful episodes in US history

The Guardian - UK

Hero by Katie Buckley review – fearless study of female desire

The British author’s debut novel pulls no punches in a feminist interrogation of women as archetypes in myths and fairytales

The Guardian - UK

‘They were trying to do 200 different poses during power cuts’: Bridget Jones director takes on The Joy of Sex

In the 1970s a ‘nude biologist brandishing a cigar’ wrote a game-changing sex manual. Now, ‘Shazza’ is putting his story on the big screen

The Independent UK

How a lesbian helpline became a sanctuary for queer British women in the 1990s

IN FOCUS: When author Elizabeth Lovatt began digging through the Finsbury library archive, she didn’t expect to uncover a world of anonymous lesbian helpline call logs. She tells Zoya Raza-Sheikh about the women’s real-life stories that were shared with the Lesbian Line

The Guardian - AU

The moment I knew: I was mourning the end of my summer fling – then a parcel arrived at my door

When Steph Vizard hooked up with Hugh during a trip back home, it was like living inside a romantic comedy. But could they have a happy ending?

Evening Standard

Shon Faye: celibacy, transphobia, and why we're all doing love wrong

The author of bestselling book The Transgender Issue, speaks to Emma Loffhagen about break-ups, London’s dating culture, and the fetishisation of trans women

The Guardian - UK

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

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