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Hosseini’s The Kite Runner has joined a growing list of titles ‘under review’ or challenged by school boards, with nearly 5,894 books banned from July 2021 to June 2023

Children seem to acquire narcissism, in part, by internalizing parents’ grandiose views of them

Kieron reveals how he broke into editorial design, and became a D&AD Judge and Adobe Live host.

Though showrunner Nicole Taylor did consider changing it.

Writers including Roxane Gay have called on the organisation to ‘wake up from its silent, tepid, self-congratulatory middle of the road and take a stand’

Preview | Take an exclusive first look at 'Karski's Story'

This week I step down from the Hay Festival, where for the past decade or so I’ve been a trustee, vice-president and chairman (or, alternatively, chief cook and bottle washer). I’ll be staying on in an advisory (and probably quite annoying) capacity, but operationally I’m done. Ten years is long…

The desolation of a prisoner-of-war camp in the American civil war is drawn with tragic power

Nature reveals and conceals Hewitt’s identity in his stunning second book of poems, a set shot through with yearning and sacred imagery