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Elizabeth Strout: ‘It’s a tough thing to be creative and have children’

INTERVIEW: After Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is back with a brand new protagonist in her 11th novel, ‘The Things We Never Say’. The chronicler of small-town despair, loved by Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith, tells Jessie Thompson why her books are so full of loneliness…

The Independent UK

Buyers of Liza Minnelli memoir claim it was not signed by hand

Premium editions of Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! cost up to $250 but some say signatures are unnaturally identical

The Guardian - UK

Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir named book of the year at British Book Awards

Ms Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice triumphed at the ceremony at Grosvenor House in London

The Independent UK

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Sarah Wynn-Williams and Virginia Giuffre jointly win freedom to publish prize at British book awards

In a rare public appearance, Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams warned of ‘networks of powerful elites’ using wealth and influence to silence dissenting voices

The Guardian - UK

Carol Rumens obituary

Poet, poetry editor and writer of the Guardian’s long-running Poem of the Week column

The Guardian - UK

Why King Charles Was Often "Reduced to Tears" by His Dad Prince Philip, According to a Royal Biographer

"Charles, unlike his feisty sister Anne, did not have the personality to stand up to his father."

Marie Claire

The perils of judging a book by its hard cover

Letters: Readers take issue with an article that advocated ditching hardback books in favour of paperbacks

The Guardian - UK

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The Royal Protocol Princess Kate ‘Insisted’ on Breaking After Prince George’s Birth

Marie Claire

John of John by Douglas Stuart review – will a father and son come out to each other?

The Booker winner’s epic tale of gay love and loneliness in the Hebrides charts an uneasy homecoming against a backdrop of repression

The Guardian - UK

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

The Guardian - US

‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney

His first story collection, Reward System, was a cult hit. Now comes a novel that’s a bleakly funny appraisal of millennial relationships, technology and ennui. He talks about love, precarity and being called the ‘voice of a generation’

The Guardian - UK

‘They’re trying to narrow the worldview of young people’: how book bans are on the rise in the US

Rising tide of censorship is spreading, reshaping what students are permitted to read, learn and think

The Guardian - US

This Book May Cause Side Effects by Helen Pilcher review – can you think yourself sick?

Fearing the worst can lead to physical changes, according to this fascinating study of a strange medical phenomenon

The Guardian - UK

Epstein cellmate says he found a suicide note. Justice Department says it's seeing it for first time

A note attributed to Jeffrey Epstein in his first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019 has been made public

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The Times of India

‘We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves’: Rabih Alameddine On The Truth In Fiction

Rabih Alameddine is the author of ‘An Unnecessary Woman’, ‘The Hakawati’ and ‘I, The Divine’, in addition to many others. Among his accolades are the 2022 Penn Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction. In this conversation, he discusses his latest book, ‘The True True…

Woman & Home

Netflix’s Legends is an incredible ‘hidden’ true story of unlikely heroes who took down notorious 90s drug gangs

You might struggle to believe the ‘top secret’ real story behind this gripping thriller

Marie Claire

Every Carley Fortune Book, Ranked—From 'Every Year After' to 'Our Perfect Storm'

She knows how to write an excellent summer romance.

The Guardian - UK

The Pretender by Jo Harkin audiobook review – sprightly historical political skulduggery

This 15th-century royal romp of intrigue and courtly conspiracy is given extra charismatic verve by John Hollingworth’s rambunctious narration

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The Guardian - US

Report shows banned non-fiction books doubled over last school year in US

New PEN America report analysed 3,743 unique titles removed from libraries and classrooms and found books about activism and social movements were targeted

The Guardian - UK

Solace House by Will Maclean review – immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist

A dead poet’s cluttered mansion is the setting for a heady brew of magic, mystery and mushrooms

The Guardian - AU

JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’

Nobel laureate says he previously considered himself a supporter of Israel, but ‘the campaign of annihilation in Gaza has changed all that’

Latin Times

Epstein's Alleged Suicide Note Finally Made Public by Federal Judge

A purported suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein before his 2019 death in federal custody has been publicly released after years under seal, adding a dramatic new chapter to the ongoing scrutiny surrounding the disgraced financier's death and the handling of his case.

Cinemablend

Josh Heuston Knows Fans Think He'd Be A Great Fit For Fourth Wing, And I Had To Ask About That Fancast

He's seen the vision.

Reason

Court Dismisses Matt Taibbi's Defamation Lawsuit Over "Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left"

From Taibbi v. Higgins, decided yesterday by Judge George Daniels (S.D.N.Y.): This action centers around Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought… The post Court Dismisses Matt Taibbi's Defamation Lawsuit Over "Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left" appeared first on Reason.com.

Marie Claire

Royal Biographer's Unusual Claim About Princess Kate's Name Change Was Revealed By Prince Harry Years Ago

"I wondered now what came of that suggestion," Prince Harry wrote.

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