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Zadie Smith and Paul Murray on shortlist for Writers’ prize

Other authors in contention for the award, previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize, include Naomi Klein and Observer art critic Laura Cumming

The Guardian - UK

Crime and thrillers of the month – review

A spy raised by drug dealers confronts a Russian villain in Elly Conway’s much-hyped debut, an exploration of female rage upends expectations and a snowstorm search is a chilling read

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The Singularity by Balsam Karam review – a brilliant and beautiful study of displacement

This tale of migration and motherhood by the Swedish-Kurdish author is satisfyingly full of narrative surprises

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“Some Images” That Need No Context Whatsoever To Be Hilarious, As Seen On This FB Page

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams says story of firing a gun at school, recounted in his book, never happened

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he was moving to remove his own book from circulation Monday, after learning that it was erroneously published more than a decade ago, and includes an anecdote he says is not true

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The fight against ‘caste Christians’ in Tamil Nadu

The fight against caste discrimination in Christianity has been going on for years

The Hindu

Book Review: ‘Sugar, Baby’ is a train wreck with no consequences that you can’t help but read

Agnes Green in the novel “Sugar, Baby” has been an outsider her whole life, with her strict conservative Christian upbringing directly at odds with her desire for romance, sex and parties

The Independent UK

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‘It was originally Smartarses v Dunderheads’: how we made QI – by John Lloyd and Alan Davies

‘QI is about how extraordinary the world is. Learning that elephants are 22 million times the size of bees makes you realise you haven’t really been paying attention to anything’

The Guardian - UK

#ReadWithMC Readers Thought 'Alice Sadie Celine' Was a "Ride"

"A uniquely bizarre story about three women exploring love, sexuality, and agency..."

Marie Claire

The Boys' co-creator Garth Ennis on launching his "ruthless" new James Bond comic

Interview | The legendary writer tells us how he came to take on Bond, James Bond

Total Film

‘The incentive to steal isn’t there’: the lost cause of tracking library theft

Few Australian libraries know how many items are stolen – be it the Bible or DVDs – and many no longer have an overdue fee

The Guardian - AU

Prince Harry left out of Sandhurst guide to most notable graduates

'Not everybody who trained there was a good egg'

Evening Standard

‘All feminists are under attack’: ultra-right threat in Milei’s Argentina forces writer into exile

The new president’s rightwing supporters are targeting journalists and women’s rights activists – but the fight goes on

The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry: the artist who became the muse

A new book including never-before-seen portraits of the artist has been published

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Fatherlessness: Key factor in crime rate, says economist Melissa Carney

Discover the power of family in preventing crime! Join us as we delve into the importance of fathers and the impact they have on their children's lives. A ...

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Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney review – portrait of a marriage adrift

The acclaimed Irish writer’s first novel follows an anonymous woman’s relationship breakdown as she takes a ferry trip into the unknown

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In Memory of Us by Jacqueline Roy review – a twisty tale of twins

The lives of two sisters growing up in south London in the 1950s and 60s are disrupted by a charismatic stranger in this pacy novel

The Hindu

The greatest bad writer America has produced

When something is really bad - a book, a movie, a painting, a joke, it is, in fact, really good. Perhaps that is why some of our actors and writers are as successful as they are. People love to check out what fresh depths they might have plumbed.

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Come and Get It review – Kiley Reid’s sophomore satire misses the mark

In her follow-up to the Booker-longlisted Such a Fun Age, the American author tackles the money worries of young women, but her observations too often feel like farce

The Guardian - UK

‘No wands or broomsticks’: how TV is reinventing the modern-day witch

With 2024 is set to be the year of the witch, writers are replacing the traditional image with sassy, sexy and dark characters

The Guardian - UK

We should cherish handwriting: the scribbled, the scrawled, the stubbornly jotted

Our communications lose character when we give up putting pen to paper. It’s hard to imagine an Auden poem celebrating the arrival of the night email

The Guardian - UK

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – colonialism as a bloody heist comedy

The Mexican writer’s imaginative riff on the conquest of the Aztecs is an enigmatic, drily funny farce

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The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo review – a break for the border

The US academic has written a thoughtful and vividly realised account of the extraordinary chain of events around a summer party in Hungary that precipitated the end of Soviet power in central Europe

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: Sage Sohier capturing playfulness in 1980s America

The photographer’s early work, rediscovered in lockdown, has a quickened intensity and of-the-moment thrill

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