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Book Review: Rural Appalachian family’s dreams turn dark in new Ron Rash novel, `The Caretaker’

In a review of “The Caretaker,” Ron Rash’s first novel in seven years, Kendal Weaver writes that Rash has created a compelling drama of young lovers in rural Appalachia in the early 1950s

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Henry VIII’s favourite fool – a new book draws a portrait of the man the Tudor court loved to laugh at

Henry VIII is notorious for his willingness to lop off the heads of anyone who crossed him, including a string of former friends and intimates –even two of his wives. So you might think that, to keep your head on your shoulders at his court, you would need to have…

The Conversation

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a ‘what if’ classic

The writer’s alternative history – a thriller set in a 1920s US with a huge and thriving Native American population – underlines the range and power of his imagination

The Guardian - UK

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Mary Beard: ‘The last thing I’d want is a world in which we all agreed’

The classicist on autocrats ancient and modern, free speech in universities and whether Twitter has been a force for good

The Guardian - UK

A far-right rabble won’t overthrow Ireland’s democracy – but we shouldn’t be complacent

The assortment of conspiracists who blockaded parliament was laughably incoherent. Yet change is coming that could awaken dark forces, says the Irish author Fintan O’Toole

The Guardian - UK

7 gardening books you shouldn’t be without this autumn

Learn new skills and be inspired by a raft of new gardening titles, reviewed by Hannah Stephenson.

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on European fiction in translation: still too little, too late

Editorial: Progress has been made. But as the wounds of Brexit heal, literature has a key role to play in building a new entente cordiale

The Guardian - UK

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Bid $80,000 for Jane Austen

First edition masterpieces are up for grabs this week at an antiquarian book auction

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Hyderabad Reads: Reconnecting bibliophiles with books

Hyderabad Reads: Free-for-all book reading community encourages people to drop phones and return to books. 150 readers gather at KBR Park every Sat, 4.30-7pm, with books, snacks, mats. Entry fee ₹45. Curators Quadri & Barik provide literary oasis, 3K+ followers in 4 months.

The Hindu

Compositor E review – traumatised typesetter leaves inky fingerprints all over Shakespeare

Charlie Dupré’s Bruntwood prize longlisted play asks thoughtful questions about who gets to shape history, but lacks a level of intrigue and emotional depth to address them fully

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Giacometti in Paris; The Stargazers; The Village Idiot – reviews

Michael Peppiatt’s connection to the sculptor informs a fascinating life; Harriet Evans conjures a gripping tale of family and property; and Steve Stern weaves fact and fiction in a story of artistic youth

The Guardian - UK

Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale review – deft tale of female scammers

First published in 1988, the late crime writer’s final novel highlights her sly humour and vivid characterisation

The Guardian - UK

Jobs for the Girls by Ysenda Maxtone Graham review – how the other half worked

Accounts of women’s working lives from the 1950s onwards highlight the upper classes and the eccentric. It’s wonderfully mad, but also irritating

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li review – dialogues with death

Sudden losses are everywhere in the Chinese American writer’s controlled, contemplative stories

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Let’s hear it for England’s royals – and centuries of incompetence, criminality and failure

We’re often told the current crop lack the dignity that monarchy deserves. But what about the losers, adulterers and delusional brutes who came before?

The Guardian - US

The Times review: how the newspaper of record survived – and thrived

Adam Nagourney’s rigorous reporting shines, though he misses chances to illuminate less well-known parts of the story

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: a moment of intimacy for women in prison

Jane Evelyn Atwood spent a decade photographing the life of female inmates, from childbirth to conjugal visits

The National (Scotland)

Inside the secretive Tory 1922 committee which ‘slays leaders'

IT’S a secretive body of Tory backbenchers which hit the headlines as MPs plotted the downfall of Boris Johnson.

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On gripping narratives

Each is a powerful experience and we need to be explicitly weaned away every time from this world of suspended disbelief

The Independent UK

Cassidy Hutchinson calls Trump ‘dangerous’ and ‘un-American’ and describes fleeing DC after testimony

Former Trump administration aide has emerged as whistleblower

The Hindu

Readable in one sitting — and other issues

Yet, it is not fashionable, nor is it popular with publishers who think it falls into a chasm between the short story and the novel. Mathematical definitions are not of much help – a novella could be anywhere from ten thousand to forty thousand words. Edgar Allan Poe caught the…

The Guardian - US

‘Reading is resistance’: students and parents take on DeSantis’s book bans

Florida governor’s constant attacks on the education system have led to an increasing backlash from a wide range of people

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Rebecca F Kuang’s cultural highlights

The bestselling author of Yellowface on prepping for Christopher Nolan films, a touring Mozart biopic and the swaggering young stars of Italian rock

The Guardian - UK

Susie Dent: ‘English has always evolved by mistake’

The queen of Countdown’s dictionary corner on the power of positive language and finding joy in ‘mubble fubbles’

The Guardian - UK

The Glutton by AK Blakemore review – the man who ate everything

Based on the real-life story of a peasant in revolutionary France, this hallucinatory tale is set to be one of the most remarkable novels of the year

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