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Secret police tricked Carlos the Jackal into fleeing Prague, archives reveal

New book casts doubt on accepted picture of communist bloc support for violent radicals during cold war

The Guardian - UK

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City review – New York state of mind

Kay Sohini’s account of leaving Kolkata and sadness behind to build a life in the Big Apple is a stirring tribute to the place that saved her

The Guardian - UK

‘Am I a Cyclopian monster?’ How masked writer Uketsu went from asparagus videos to literary sensation

He gained fame in Japan posting surreal videos of meat, veg and even ears. Then he tried writing – and soon had three bestsellers in the Top 10. As one now reaches the English-speaking world, we meet the faceless phenomenon

The Guardian - UK

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‘We were raided regularly’: with Assad gone, banned books return to Syria’s shelves

Under the deposed dictator, books had to pass detailed scrutiny by government censors

The Guardian - UK

Hotels, meals and mechanics: My journey

From charming inns to standout meals, my book tour served up delicious surprises coast to coast

Salon

Percival Everett's 'James' awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction

Percival Everett's latest honor comes from the country’s public libraries

The Independent UK

‘Forgotten’ sites linked to Jane Austen feature in new Hampshire trails

Villagers in Overton have set up walking and cycling routes taking in places author would have known

The Guardian - UK

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Dealing With the Dead by Alain Mabanckou review – surreal murder mystery in Congo-Brazzaville

A picaresque tale blends ghosts and ghouls with political satire and a scathing attack on corruption

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: a gaggle of visitors gather beneath London’s Shard

Photographer Andy Hall’s atmospheric new series captures the capital’s eerie financial heart

The Guardian - UK

20 year wait for theatrical production of top novel 'worth it', author says

IT’S been almost 20 years coming to fruition but author James Robertson believes the wait for a theatrical production of one of his best-selling…

The National (Scotland)

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The Guardian - UK

Gill Hornby: ‘Jane Austen created the six best novels in the English language’

The writer on her third novel, Miss Austen, being turned into a TV drama, what we get wrong about the much-loved author – and why she would never write a book with her husband, Robert Harris

The Guardian - UK

Neil Gaiman comic series cancelled following sexual assault allegations

Gaiman has been accused of assault by several women

The Independent UK

Washed-up Brits, local lowlifes and a Kray twin’s lighter: noir novel Spanish Beauty shines fond light on Benidorm

Recently published in English for the first time, Esther García Llovet’s story pays tribute to the resort regarded by many as ‘the worst place in Spain’

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How Toni Morrison’s characters modeled womanhood and confinement in their dress

How people dress – their bodies, their communities, their houses – mattered a great deal to the Nobel prize winner

The Independent UK

'Yes, Queen!' Fans gather at The Town Hall in Manhattan to cheer on author Rebecca Yarros

Friday night at The Town Hall had the feel of a costume party, rock concert and family reunion as a capacity crowd of around 1,500 clapped, laughed and shouted, “Yes queen!”

The Guardian - UK

We show we’re human when we put pen to paper

Letters: Students of literature in future will have far less to go on if handwriting becomes obsolete, writes Dr Claire Nicholson. Plus letters from Michael Daley, Alan Sekers, Alan Gough, Dr Emile de Sousa and Marie Paterson

The Conversation

The pope’s memoir, Oscar nominees and a mafia exhibition – what to read, see and do this week

I finally got round to watching Conclave last week. Two hours of Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini in Oscar-nominated performances alongside Lucian Msamati and a stray papal turtle. The scandals. The tension. The outfits (also nominated). A sublime experience.

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The Guardian - UK

Charlotte Raven obituary

Editor of the Modern Review and Guardian columnist who later chronicled her experience of Huntington’s disease

WhatToWatch

Run Away: cast, plot and everything we know about the next Harlan Coben adaptation

Run Away is the next Harlan Coben adaptation to land on Netflix with James Nesbitt playing a father whose daughter goes missing.

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of romantasy fans make midnight dates with new Rebecca Yarros novel

Bookshops staged late-night parties – with fancy dress, quizzes and cakes – to launch the third instalment of novelist’s Empyrean series, Onyx Storm

The Walrus

The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction

Why the best queer writers are throwing plot out of the window

The Walrus

Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time

Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust

Marie Claire

'Children of Blood and Bone' Movie: Everything We Know About the Cast and Release Date

You won't believe how many A-listers are in the cast of this book-to-screen adaptation.

The Guardian - UK

Michael Longley, prize-winning poet of ‘griefs and wonders’, dies aged 85

Part of a gifted generation of writers from Northern Ireland, Longley also gave years of service to the province’s arts council

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