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Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna review – a love letter to London under pressure

The precarity and dreams of thirtysomething Londoners are adroitly explored in this tender portrait of contemporary queer life

The Guardian - UK

Australian literature has long been ‘hijacked by activists’. This has made it richer. Let’s not go backwards

Seeking to dismiss a judge for being passionate about a cause pertaining to the safety and liberation of her people reeks of a desperation to silence a critical voice

The Guardian - AU

'Hurtful and divisive' gay book ban could cost council

Funding for a Sydney council is under threat over its decision to ban books on same-sex parenting as politicians blast the move.

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Going gluten-free could fight bookworms

How chemists are fighting museums' hungry enemies by going gluten-free

Salon

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly review – a harrowing first-person account of a knife attack

The British-Indian writer relives his horrific 2022 stabbing in shocking detail – and opens up about how heading back to the scene of the crime helped him

The Guardian - UK

Pulitzer Prize: Mexican Cristina Rivera Garza and Dominican-American Medar de la Cruz among winners

The Mexican author won the Memoir/Autobiography category while de la Cruz did the same for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Latin Times

Kristi Noem rejects ‘liberal plant’ claim on dog-killing tale: ‘Buck stops with me’

Sympathetic interviewer suggests rogue editor was responsible for career-torpedoing story in new book

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UK audiobook downloads up 17% last year, Publishers Association data shows

Audiobooks are fast becoming ‘a major route to market for consumers of books’, the trade body says

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Sydney council bans same-sex parenting books from libraries for ‘safety of our children’

Local MP is concerned move breaches Anti-Discrimination Act while NSW arts minister accuses council of ‘censorship’

The Guardian - AU

Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall review – the time traveller’s life

The British poet’s second collection is an exacting examination of the past, the present and an uncertain future

The Guardian - UK

The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins

This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life

The Guardian - UK

All hail the power of concrete architecture

‘Concrete Architecture’ surveys more than a century’s worth of the world’s most influential buildings using the material, from brutalist memorials to sculptural apartment blocks

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Noem cries "fake news" over interview

It's not clear what exactly the Republican governor thought would happen after she wrote about shooting her dog

Salon

This literary sci-fi odyssey should be Netflix’s next big-budget adaptation

Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars Trilogy is the perfect source material for the next great sci-fi show.

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‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’: Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot

That They May Face the Rising Sun, about a small rural community in Ireland, has little obvious drama. The director explains how that is exactly what’s winning it awards

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‘Atlas of Never Built Architecture’ delves into unrealised architectural ambition

Unrealised grand plans are chronicled in ‘Atlas of Never Built Architecture’, Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin’s monumental new Phaidon monograph, which collates 300 architectural projects lost to the mists of time

The Guardian - UK

Confronting the audience and breaking the fourth wall: why Black drama is getting meta

On stage and screen, self-referential dramas such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequality

The Guardian - UK

Sport and the climate emergency: collating injustice with an action plan

‘I’m very alarmed by everybody’s lack of alarm, that’s the scariest thing for me,’ says Warming up author Madeleine Orr

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Nordic kids are the happiest in the world - Expert reveals top 3 tips for raising kids the Danish way

Nordic parenting is vastly different from most western approaches

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Sufferance by Charles Palliser review – a well-crafted, slow-burning novel

The Quincunx author’s sixth book, the story of a family in crisis under an tyrannical regime, is exquisitely plotted and satisfying

The Guardian - UK

Read me a story: why reading out loud is a joy for adults as well as kids

Sarah Manavis and her partner have a guilty secret. What they love to do most of all in private is… read out loud to each other. And, as she’s discovered, it has many surprising benefits

The Guardian - UK

Glass Houses; The Paris Trilogy; How to Build Impossible Things – reviews

Love, class and Welsh nationalism fuel a menacing literary romance; Colombe Schneck’s meditations on womanhood and teenage pregnancy are electrifying; and an elite craftsman is full of great advice

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

A new era at the RSC opens with a potent staging by Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi of his classic everyman tale and a clever take on Shakespeare’s comedy that cuts through the verbiage – with help from a Bridgerton stalwart

The Guardian - UK

UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history

The Guardian - US

Minority Rule review: rich history of America’s undemocratic democracy

From an absurd Senate where California and Wyoming are equal, to Republican voter suppression, Ari Berman covers it all

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