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King of Dirt by Holden Sheppard review – a grim portrait of homophobia and masculinity

In his first book for adults, Sheppard explores his gay protagonist’s desperately sad, self-sabotaging behaviour as he struggles with being gay in rural Australia

The Guardian - AU

Snow Patrol frontman to perform home city gig with a difference

Gary Lightbody will take part in conversation events on two dates in August about his new book, The Forest Is The Path.

Evening Standard

Carol Wolkowitz obituary

Other lives: Sociologist who examined how gender shapes our working lives

The Guardian - UK

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New web retailer BookKind pledges 10% of all sales to charity

‘You could probably buy your books from cheaper places,’ says startup that will allow shoppers to choose between eight different charities to receive a tithe

The Guardian - UK

The Survivors review – a murder mystery so intense you’ll watch through your fingers

This adaptation of the bestselling Australian crime novel is full of twists, turns and red herrings. Its focus on the terrible grief of bereaved mothers makes it a cut above

The Guardian - UK

'She's great': more charges mulled against taboo author

A Christian charity executive accused of disseminating and producing child abuse material over her fictional novel Daddy's Little Toy may face more charges.

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Education Secretary Ridiculed for Failing to Answer Questions About Ruby Bridges and Black History: 'Not Fit for the Job'

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon revealed her lack of knowledge about key events in Black American history, sparking outcry online.

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KJP ditches Dems, announces new book

Biden's former press secretary announced a book promising a "look inside a broken White House"

Salon

British-Palestinian writer NS Nuseibeh wins Jhalak prose prize for writers of colour

‘Timely’ essay collection Namesake explores identity, religion and colonialism as Nathanael Lessore takes children’s and young adult prize and Mimi Khalvati wins for poetry

The Guardian - UK

Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s former press secretary, leaves Democratic party

Jean-Pierre, now an independent, expected to detail weeks that preceded Biden’s dropout from 2024 race in new book

The Guardian - US

Where to start with: Edmund White

After the news of White’s death, here is a guide to a foundational writer of gay lives and elder statesman of American queer literary fiction

The Guardian - UK

Artwork featuring JK Rowling’s name taken off display to stop ‘tampering’

The person who removed stitching over Rowling’s name said they took ‘great time and care’, and did not damage it.

Evening Standard

Edmund White obituary

One of the leading gay writers of his generation known for his bestseller A Boy’s Own Story and his biography of Jean Genet

The Guardian - UK

Edmund White, a groundbreaking gay author, dies at 85

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died

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The genteel, silver-tongued thinker who fathered US conservatism – and paved the way for Trump

A new biography digs into the life of William F Buckley Jr. Its author thinks the rightwing intellectual has some lessons for the left

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The 50 Greatest Designers teaches you the design history you didn't know

Explore this new book by Creative Bloq writer Tom May.

The Guardian - AU

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died

The Independent UK

Writer Bernardine Evaristo receives lifetime accolade for her ‘transformative impact’

The British writer scooped the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award

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Bernardine Evaristo scoops Women’s prize outstanding contribution award

One-off £100,000 prize awarded to Girl, Women, Other writer for entire body of work and ‘dedication to uplifting under-represented voices’

Evening Standard

Bernardine Evaristo receives Women’s Prize outstanding contribution award

The literary honour recognises Evaristo’s body of work and dedication to advancing underrepresented voices.

Evening Standard

Tulisa to recount drugs trial in new memoir detailing her career highs and lows

The singer was arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs in 2013, but the charges were later dismissed.

The Guardian - UK

Susan Brownmiller obituary

Feminist writer and activist whose 1975 book Against Our Will revolutionised attitudes to rape

The Guardian - UK

‘Five years from now, these readers will be soldiers’: The Russian literature encouraging teens to enlist

Master-race stories of heroic characters battling against zombie Nazis and western spies to recover imperial grandeur are a bleak new spin on an old propaganda tradition

The Guardian - UK

Letters from Max review – rich reflections on life, death and nothingness from a poet who died at 25

Sarah Ruhl’s stage adaptation of the book she wrote with her former student Max Ritvo, who died of cancer at 25, is smartly written if emotionally distant

The Guardian - US

A Palestinian American writer’s story of exile, addiction and surrogacy: ‘I had to do something with the fragments’

In her new memoir, Hala Alyan reflects on her fractured lineage and having a child against all odds

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