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Audiobook of the week: On Women by Susan Sontag – clear-eyed wisdom

A polemical collection of the writer’s 70s journalism on feminism read by the voice actor Laurel Lefkow is just as relevant today

The Guardian - UK

Matt Haig: ‘I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind’

The author on how AA Milne and Emily Dickinson helped him through illness, being inspired by Stephen King and why he thinks Graham Greene is one of the best

The Guardian - UK

Want by Gillian Anderson review – let me be your fantasy

The star’s compendium of X-rated female wish-fulfilment makes for compelling, if not entirely candid, reading

The Guardian - UK

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In the footsteps of DH Lawrence: across the Alps from Germany to Italy

More than a century on, the route from Konstanz to Como across lakes and Swiss mountains must also contend with traffic, but it still inspires a novel

The Guardian - UK

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

Unfamous photos of famous writers that gives us a glimpse into their lives. The post 24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Margaret Jones obituary

Other lives: Illustrator of Welsh folk tales, including a memorable version of The Mabinogion

The Guardian - UK

Trump threatens to throw Mark Zuckerberg in prison for life in new book

Former president warns the Meta CEO he is being watched closely and will ‘spend the rest of his life in prison’ if he attempts to interfere in the 2024 election

The Independent UK

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Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane review – atmospheric stories linked by a murderer’s crimes

McFarlane’s lyrical follow-up to The Sun Walks Down explores the reverberations of violence, and the stories we tell about crime

The Guardian - AU

Stray Bullets creator David Lapham makes his EC Comics debut with a gruesome sci-fi shocker

'Ray Gun' is a western-themed horror

GamesRadar

These are the top fringe events at the SNP's 2024 conference

THE SNP’s annual conference is set to run from Friday to Sunday in Edinburgh with a major focus on how the party moves forward following a huge…

The National (Scotland)

Rick Turner and Steve Biko were leading liberation thinkers in 1970s South Africa – why their ideas still matter

Steve Biko was undoubtedly the most influential South African liberation struggle theorist and activist of the 1970s. Rick Turner was arguably among the most effectual white anti-apartheid activists of the era. Biko espoused black consciousness while Turner was a Marxist philosopher. Biko (30) was murdered by apartheid police in 1977.…

The Conversation

Fall is bringing fantasy (and romantasy), literary fiction, politics and Taylor-ed book offerings

Not even a presidential election is likely to slow the wave of fantasy novels that has been building the past few years

The Independent UK

Melania Trump’s flavourless memoir book cover accused of plagiarism

Where’s the personality?

Creative Bloq

A king’s novels, a great ape and a legendary birthplace – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey review – the Irish diaspora

Life in the capital is vividly evoked, in a tale of love and loss spanning four decades

Evening Standard

Happy and glorious - or a little bit bland? Craig Brown tells all about the Queen, but she remains an enigma.

Was the late Queen troubled about the future of the monarchy? This gossipy, lively biography suggests she was.

The Guardian - UK

Elaine by Will Self review – all about my mother

An extraordinary portrait of a frustrated and furious 1950s American housewife, based on the diaries of Self’s mother

Salon

We don't abuse our special needs son

I sat up in recognition when Gov. Walz was being accused of so-called anger and abuse when the opposite was true

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Decades after Germany’s reunification, views still differ on its cultural divide

Letters: Ruth Strassl, born in West Germany, and John Green, who spent several years living in East Germany, respond to an article by Carolin Würfel

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100 Bullets and Phoenix writers Brian Azzarello and Stephanie Phillips break down their twisty new sci-fi crime saga LIFE

Interview | Azzarello and Phillips on the ethics of immortality and more

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How to watch 'Killer Lies: Chasing A True Crime Con Man' online from anywhere

Stéphane Bourgoin interviewed over 70 convicted murderers... or so he claimed. Here's how to watch "Killer Lies: Chasing A True Crime Con Man" online from anywhere.

Evening Standard

Spat breaks out between Liz Truss and author of new book about her on eve of publication

‘I have nothing more to add,’ quipped Sir Anthony Seldon

The Guardian - UK

Want to feel like a teenager again? Just dig out the books you were forced to read at school

All it takes is a few pages of Animal Farm and I’m 14 again, braces on my teeth and longing in my heart

Evening Standard

OPINION - From Meghan's curtsey to the Queen's odd habits: 21 things we learnt from Craig Brown's new royal book

A new biography sees the royal writer turn his attention to the late Queen Elizabeth II. From washing up gloves to old-school selfies, Harriet Addison rounds up the most surprising revelations

The Conversation

Background For Love by Helen Wolff – a startling tale of romance from a great proponent of translated fiction

All publishing can be seen as a kind of translation. Sometimes from one language to another but also from one place to another, one time to another, one reader to another.

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