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Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott review – Bridget Jones in the jazz age

Reissued after a century, this lively, funny and harrowing debut follows a divorcee torn between sexual liberation and the compromised ‘safety’ of marriage in the 1920s

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There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak review – water, water everywhere

The links between a 19th-century Londoner who escapes poverty and a Yazidi girl born 200 years later are gradually revealed in an absorbing novel that reflects on global inequality

The Guardian - UK

Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – waspish, funny account of life as Frank Zappa’s daughter

This memoir about being fathered by the 70s rock oddball and ‘pagan absurdist’ is an extraordinary tale of survival

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The Guardian view on list-making: a habit that is part of what makes us human

Editorial: From Homeric epic to the novels of today, the history of literature shows that there is nothing trivial about a list

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Justice Gorsuch Explains What Collegiality Means

Does it mean going to the opera together, or a willingness to be persuaded?

Reason

Rosa Regàs obituary

Spanish publisher opposed to the Franco regime who went on to write acclaimed novels

The Guardian - UK

Rosarita by Anita Desai – a luminous search for a mother

This short, exquisite novel about a young Indian woman’s encounter with a flamboyant stranger shows that Desai has lost none of her powers

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Nathan Thrall: ‘The scale and brutality of the Israeli response in Gaza hasn’t surprised me, no’

The US journalist and author on his Pulitzer prize-winning book about a Palestinian father, the aftermath of 7 October and what it means to be a Jewish critic of Israel

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The Outrun review – ambitious staging of Amy Liptrot’s Orkney addiction memoir

Vicky Featherstone’s directing and Isis Hainsworth’s fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer’s introspective journey to sobriety

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‘She did not suffer a fool or hypocrite and loved a good laugh’: novelist Edna O’Brien

An email correspondence about Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić led to Ed Vulliamy’s unexpected bond with the Irish author, who died last week aged 93

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Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan review – old grudges die hard in rural Ireland

The Irish author’s follow-up to his 2012 novel The Spinning Heart revisits its characters 10 years on in a story notable for its rough-edged poetry

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‘The obnoxious one’: new book by Trump’s nephew exposes a sordid past

Fred Trump III’s portrayal of the Queens-born former president shows him as volatile, uncaring and racist

The Guardian - US

The Gangs of New York review – politics and punch-ups in the land of opportunity

The streets could be meaner in this new stage adaptation, which is at its best when exploring the challenges of the immigrant experience

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Almost all nursery rhymes are utter doggerel and I loathe them, sadly my daughter doesn’t

My daughter must have nursery rhymes… It is one of her gravest crimes

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In brief: The Newsmongers; The Night in Venice; Vital Organs – review

An informed history of tabloid journalism; an atmospheric Edwardian-era mystery set in Italy; and a riotous study of famous people’s body parts

The Conversation

Young, urban, African: research explores what it means to be a good citizen in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania

Young people between the ages of 18 and 35 make up two-thirds of Africa’s population. The number is expected to reach 75% by 2030. They live in an environment of rapid urbanisation, high unemployment rates and poor state services. These are some of the factors that incline young people towards…

Reason

Some Highlights From Justice Gorsuch's WSJ Interview

Justice Gorsuch likes the new oral argument format and he writes his own opinions.

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Lost Archive of James Baldwin; Extreme: Muscle Men; Paris Olympics – review

The American writer’s personal effects, languishing in a French lock-up, are only part of a touching story. Plus, an entertaining tale of 80s bodybuilding, and gymnastics on the radio

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Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy

In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. But as tech’s titans donate millions, worrying new parallels emerge

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BBC presenter Emma Barnett reveals her side hustle – colouring books

The Today programme cohost has a new family enterprise with her husband Jeremy Weil, publishing sketches of landmarks in UK cities, and soon the world

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Kensuke’s Kingdom review – impeccably elegant animation of Michael Morpurgo adventure

Beautifully hand-drawn, with a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce exploring deep themes, is this adaptation too classy to have wide appeal?

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Elif Shafak: ‘As a writer in Turkey, you can be attacked, put on trial, imprisoned’

As she confronts the ecological crisis and the persecution of the Yazidi people in her latest novel, the author talks about the difficulty of being a writer – and a woman – in Turkey

The Guardian - UK

Complicit by Reah Bravo review – a revisionist history of #MeToo

An attempt to understand the complexities of workplace abuse that is more nuanced than its provocative title suggests

Marie Claire

Princess Kate Considered Refusing the Same Royal Title as the Late Princess Diana to Avoid Any “Stressful” Comparisons

"It got to the point where she felt she might follow Camilla."

GamesRadar

After 12 years, legendary visual novel Katawa Shoujo is coming to Steam in a "modified" SFW version for those who want it

There's an Itch patch you can download if you want to play the adult version

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