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Marriage is back, it seems, but it’s still OK to say ‘I don’t’

Increasing pressure to marry is political – so if it looks inviting, ask yourself whether what you really want is a big dress

The Guardian - UK

Want to find fulfilment? Here’s what my years as an agony aunt have taught me

Philippa Perry, psychotherapist and writer of the Observer’s hugely popular problem page, shares what she’s learned about our search for contentment

The Guardian - UK

Tales of an icon: Stories, drama, adventures of the great Forth Rail Bridge

I STARE into the darkness through the train window. Glens and Bens may fly by, but I wouldn’t know. Eventually, the morning light reveals a dreich…

The National (Scotland)

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‘I just wasn’t being honest’: a true crime author confronts the NT justice system and himself

When journalist Dan Box began looking into a murder case, his goal was to win a Walkley. But a friendship and a tragedy put him at the centre of the story

The Guardian - AU

Ambai | Feminist without compromise

The Tamil publishing world believes Ambai to be the language’s first (and abiding) feminist writer, constantly challenging social gender normatives and sometimes, rewriting them.

The Hindu

Canadian Book Exposes Anti-Semitic Past: ‘None Is Too Many’

New edition of influential book sheds light on Canada's troubling immigration policies during the Holocaust

Zenger

Poet Safiya Sinclair: ‘As a girl I felt small within Rastafari’

The Jamaican poet on her new memoir chronicling life with an authoritarian father, reconfiguring the postcard image of her homeland and her love of Marvel comic books

The Guardian - UK

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David Walliams says he was ‘locked in Italian prison cell for seven hours’ during recent trip to Venice

‘Little Britain’ star told onlookers at Henley Literary Festival 2023 that he was recently apprehended at an airport in Venice

The Independent UK

On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights

The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita Dean

The Guardian - UK

Amazon's Most Ambitious New Sci-Fi Movie Had One Major Hurdle

With 'Foe,' writer-director Garth Davis turns a cerebral sci-fi thriller into an environmental fable.

Inverse

Historic Torah Scroll Displayed At Riyadh Book Fair In Israel-Saudi Détente

Rare 16th-century manuscript highlights growing ecumenicalism between former adversaries.

Zenger

Pratchett power: from lost stories to new adaptations, how the late Discworld author lives on

It’s 40 years since The Colour of Magic hit the shelves. As newly unearthed short stories are published, fans and friends celebrate the late author’s enduring legacy

The Guardian - UK

Orwellian nightmares: What I learned about today’s rage culture from rewriting 1984

‘Orwellian’ is an accusation increasingly levelled by both right and left but what does it mean, asks author Sandra Newman, who has reimagined Orwell’s novel – and why does Orwell’s dystopian classic speak so powerfully to our current moment?

The Guardian - UK

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – fabulously rich noir

The Golden Hill author turns his hand to the detective genre in a multilayered reimagining of 1920s America

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The Guardian - US

Collision of Power review: Marty Baron on Bezos, the Post and Trump

The great editor has tales to tell and a message to deliver: the US press must be ready to hold the line once again

Zenger

Katie Piper’s Infinite Digital Book Raises Awareness For Children’s Digital Connectivity

Katie Piper authors 'infinite' digital book for children, highlighting the importance of digital connectivity.

AAP

Against the odds, tiny town bookshop spreads the love

Bricks-and-mortar stores like Nice Stack of Books in the town of Meeniyan, Victoria - population 840 - are helping people re-discover the magic of book shops.

The Guardian - UK

Letters: Readers reflect on the Tories’ performance and decisions made during their party conference

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The Conversation

The history of the Yellow Book – the 19th century journal that celebrated women writers

In the middle of the final decade of the 19th century, Britain was the most powerful and richest nation on earth, with the largest empire ever known. The nation might be thought to have had nothing of which to be frightened, yet frightened it was.

The Guardian - UK

‘An extraordinary ethereal force’: readers react to the work of Jon Fosse

The author finally achieved global recognition with his Nobel prize in literature, but he has been winning fans with his mesmerising prose and elemental plays for years

The Guardian - UK

‘Libraries are the heart of community’: children’s laureate Joseph Coelho on inspiring the next generation of writers

Since his first anthology in 2014, Coelho has become a prolific author for children and YA readers – and it all started, he says, in a vital community space

The Guardian - AU

Charlotte Wood: ‘It was like I had acid poured on my whole life … but in a good way’

As Charlotte Wood was writing her latest book, she got cancer. As did her two sisters. But the acclaimed novelist is determined that her work is not despairing

Radio France Internationale

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on trial for witness tampering

A Paris court on Friday placed former French president Nicolas Sarkozy under formal investigation for alleged witness tampering and fraud as part of a probe into the funding of his successful 2007 election campaign.

Evening Standard

Madonna review: This 800-page biography is a turkey — and dry as one too

You wouldn’t have thought it would be possible to write a dull book about such a rich life as Madonna’s, but Mary Gabriel manages it. She also spends 800 pages managing it, which compounds the achievement.

The Independent UK

A Hong Kong man gets 4 months in prison for importing children's books deemed to be seditious

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.”

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