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John Lithgow to star in Royal Court play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism

US actor will appear in Mark Rosenblatt’s drama Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner, in first season of new artistic director David Byrne

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Ashley Tisdale's Nanny Accidentally Taught Her Toddler the F-Word

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Dune 2 director says cutting one character from the sequel was the "most painful choice"

Stephen McKinley Henderson's Thufir Hawat is missing from the sequel

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How long should it take to answer a Whatsapp? About a fortnight

Real friends don’t expect instant feedback. They know you’re busy slicing potatoes or loading the washing machine, writes Nell Frizzell

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5 Reasons To Teach With Taylor Swift

We don’t know about you but this advice for teaching with Taylor Swift has us feeling 22

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How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto review – skilful skewering

A young scientist follows her discredited mentor to a university for cancelled academics in this dark, complex debut about the culture wars

The Guardian - UK

Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson review – a rich, provoking study in luminous prose

The Gilead author explores the first book of the Bible and finds it full of meaning – even hope – for today

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"I never imagined I'd be an illustrator, but I love this job," Flavia Z Drago shares how she got into creating picture books

This year's London Book Fair illustration star also reveals how her native Mexico influences her work.

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'Our nation's shame': ex-senator to lead DV inquiry

A landmark inquiry into domestic and family violence is a step closer after the South Australian government unveiled its commissioner and terms of reference.

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Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

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Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh review – when a clinch is a crime

A gay Nigerian is persecuted by his father and the state in Ibeh’s stylish and moving debut novel

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I’ve done some shameful things to sell my books. But there’s a line even I can’t cross

Loitering in a bookshop, I was presented with an unmissable opportunity to gain a new reader. To my shock, I discovered a scruple, writes Nell Frizzell

The Guardian - UK

Murderer, manipulator… or not that bad at all? The reframing of Richard III

Five hundred years after his death, the monarch most reviled by Shakespeare is still courting controversy. A new play and documentary aim to change how he is seen

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The Achilles Trap: Steve Coll on how the US fatally failed to read Saddam

The reporter’s new book considers the dark comedy of errors – and a dictator’s literary ambition – that led America to war

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Dune: Part Two Cast Comparison - Book Descriptions Vs. Actors

Explore how the characters from Frank Herbert's Dune series are brought to life in Dune: Part Two with a talented cast embodying vivid book descriptions.

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New Press and Registration of Periodicals Act comes into force

The new Press and Registration of Periodicals Act, 2023, has come into force and the old Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867, now stands repealed.

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Poems on London’s underground: free riches I hold in high esteem

This public poetry scheme has been taking the grind out of commuting and delivering ‘life-worth’ since 1986

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Sir Ben Kingsley: ‘Any door that leads the younger generation to me is wonderful’

The actor, 80, describes his roles in Iron Man 3 and Sexy Beast and wonders if his greatest work is still to come

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Mercedes de Acosta: The poet who had affairs with the 20th century’s most famous women

An unpublished book has emerged by the woman best known for her liaisons with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan

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From Dylan to Ishiguro: can song lyrics ever be literature?

A new book of lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro joins collections by Kate Bush and Jarvis Cocker. But can songwriting ever work on the page?

Evening Standard

Mary & George: what’s true and what's false – fact checking the scandalous new Sky show

The story of a mother and son who rose from the fringes to the top of Jacobean society is now a lavish new drama

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The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft review – eight translators lost in a forest

The International Booker-winning translator takes a deep dive into the complexities of the role in her ambitious second novel

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Charli XCX prankster is latest in a long line of authors to fool the public

A writer hoodwinked the internet into thinking the singer nabbed his book title but he’s not the first author to pull a controversial publicity stunt

Marie Claire

#ReadWithMC Readers Thought ‘Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead’ Was a Witty, Twisty Page-Turner

“A dark and delicious whodunnit that will haunt you anytime you dare to pause reading.”

Evening Standard

OPINION - Crypt by Alice Roberts review: An addictive picture of medieval Britain from a cutting-edge perspective

The past was not a good place to die in Britain. Frightening diseases that are essentially vanquished in modern times were rife, deadly, and untreatable. Think syphilis, leprosy and the Black Death. Then there was the endemic violence. Readers of Alice Roberts’s Crypt, the third in her trilogy of books…

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