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‘It really isn’t good enough’: crime novel of the year award criticised for entirely white longlist

Authors including Dreda Say Mitchell, Harriet Tyce and Sarah Pinborough have expressed disapproval of the Theakston Old Peculier award – one of the UK’s most prestigious crime-writing prizes

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Gaza vote divides Society of Authors after call to condemn Israeli military action

Extraordinary general meeting of the UK writers’ union narrowly voted against making an official protest at violence that has killed ‘at least 95 journalists and media workers’

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Experts dismiss Kristi Noem’s ‘dubious’ claim to have met Kim Jong-un

South Dakota governor says she met North Korean dictator in same book in which she describes killing her dog

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The best recent poetry – review roundup

Come Here to This Gate by Rory Waterman; Are You There by Samantha Fain; Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips; All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney; Poems 2016-2024 by JH Prynne

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What by John Cooper Clarke review – sharp social commentary from the Bard of Salford

With subjects ranging from Elvis to bubble and squeak, the poet’s unmistakable delivery elevates his satirical verse to the realms of high art

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Biden was silenced by criticism from families of troops killed in Kabul, book says. ‘Sir, are you still there?’

Ex-White House press secretary Jen Psaki describes telling president of anger that he spoke so much of his own dead son, Beau

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Abir Mukherjee: ‘Frederick Forsyth and Jeffrey Archer were my gateway drugs into reading for pleasure’

The crime writer on embracing atheism after reading Christopher Hitchens, the allure of Jhumpa Lahiri, and falling under George Orwell’s spell

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Salman Rushdie, Ai Weiwei and a knife in the eye

Despite enormous threats to their life and work, the writer and the artist remain steadfastly courageous and optimistic. Here’s why we need more like them

The Hindu

Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan review – heartbreak in war-torn Sri Lanka

Shortlisted for the Women’s prize, this epic account of a country and a family torn apart combines the intimacy of a memoir with the urgency of reportage

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The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley review – a seriously fun sci-fi romcom

A bureaucrat in near-future London finds love with a Victorian Arctic explorer in a thrilling debut that takes a deep dive into human morality

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"I was outrageously lucky," Jessica Hische on crafting the titles for Are you there God? It's me, Margaret

Jessica recalls how two breaks helped her create the film's titles.

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How good are memoirs? In his testimony to Christian faith, Scott Morrison talks to God and God talks back

Plans for Your Good is not written for Australians at all – but for American evangelical Christians more interested in scripture than statecraft

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A New Zealand politician can’t name a homegrown novel but Kiwi artists have always conquered the world

ACT arts spokesperson Todd Stephenson’s inability to name a New Zealand author for 20 minutes in an interview has rightfully raised eyebrows

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The Guardian view on English lessons: make classrooms more creative again

Editorial: The pleasures of reading and books have been swapped for phonics and grammar. It’s time for change

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The joys of reading – you never know what the pages hold

Letters: Phil Barlow, Peter Bunyan and Ron Rooney respond to letters about discovering new authors and reading more widely

Salon

Celebrate vegetables like a chef-farmer

Hearst's wonderful new "Flavors from the Farm" cookbook is an ode to farming and fresh produce

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Excitable Boy by Dominic Gordon review – punchy tales of masculinity, sex and violence

These stylish autobiographical essays take the reader into backstreets rarely traversed in Australian literature – sex clubs, street fights and emergency rooms

Marie Claire

Robinne Lee Knows Why We Love a Good Rom-Com

The author discusses the new adaptation of her best-selling novel starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine.

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Paul Auster obituary

Author of The New York Trilogy who conjured up a world of wonder and happenstance, miracle and catastrophe

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Princess Kate Refuses to Be Anything But “Resolutely Cheerful” Around Her Kids Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, Royal Author Says

More than ever, as she receives treatment for cancer, the hope is to “keep the prevailing mood as upbeat as possible.”

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Five of the best books about eating

From a pioneering 1940s ‘gastrography’ to a recent novel about a real-life 18th-century French peasant cursed with an appetite to eat just about everything

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Manny and the Baby by Varaidzo review – dreamy debut of loss and unrequited love

A grieving son aims to connect with his late father through the cassette tapes he left behind, in a tale of jazz, black ambition and romance

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‘Perhaps the great Australian novel’: Alexis Wright wins Stella prize for second time with Praiseworthy

The 73-year-old has won the $60,000 prize for Australian female and non-binary writers for her ‘genre-bending’ 736-page novel

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Author Alexis Wright wins Stella Prize for Praiseworthy

Alexis Wright has become the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, taking out the 2024 award with her epic novel Praiseworthy.

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Enlightenment by Sarah Perry review – cosmic strangeness

This defiantly old-fashioned tale of two misfits, a ghost and a blazing comet showcases Perry’s unerring capacity to make the earthly new and strange

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