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Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw

Chair of judges Roddy Doyle says the 13 ‘gripping’ titles in contention for the £50,000 award all ‘examine identity, individual or national’

The Guardian - UK

This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions

Former winner Kiran Desai leads a varied field, while Alan Hollinghurst misses out

The Guardian - UK

Pride and Prejudice on Netflix: Meet the full cast bringing the Jane Austen classic to life

From Emma Corrin to Jamie Demetriou, the entire ensemble has been announced

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Today co-host Sheinelle Jones delays memoir again after husband’s death

Jones’s 45-year-old husband Uche Ojeh died in May from brain cancer

The Independent UK

Writing is all about discipline, love, luck and endurance – and I sure know about endurance

My ‘writing day’ is inevitably taken up by the exigencies of family life, leaving spare nights and weekends to write. It’s heady but painful business

The Guardian - AU

Kaia Gerber Elevates the Book Club Uniform in a Little Black Dress and $365 Ballet Flats

She wore all her staples for a Library Science meeting.

Marie Claire

Darren Walker's new book is still hopeful despite growing inequality as he leaves Ford Foundation

Outgoing Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's new book “The Idea of America" is a collection of more than eight dozen texts spanning his 12-year tenure with one of the nation's leading philanthropies

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Interview with the Vampire gets brand new title ahead of season 3

Underrated drama will be rebranded when it returns for new episodes

The Independent UK

Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart review – is this the future for America?

Set a decade from now, this coming-of-age caper offers a child’s-eye view of family troubles in a ‘post-democracy’ USA

The Guardian - UK

Diana McVeagh obituary

Biographer of Gerald Finzi and Edward Elgar who was on the editorial board of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The Guardian - UK

Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students

Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

The Guardian - AU

Robert Burns play shows man beyond the biscuit tin

UNPRECEDENTED access to Robert Burns’s private letters and recently digitised archival material has resulted in an intriguing show about the…

The National (Scotland)

Voices: Girlguiding’s new badges are a vital ‘woke’ revamp for Gen Alpha

COMMENT: With new badges ranging from Thrifting to Fandom, Laughter to Bee Rescuer, the youth organisation for women and girls is finally speaking the language of today. It’s about time, too, writes Victoria Richards

The Independent UK

Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned

Books – on LGBT themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work, says journalist Anna Aslanyan

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Are young women finally being spared the unique cruelty of male literary opinions?

Oh, boys; with the passage of time, have you forsaken your Goldberry… or have you forgotten her entirely?

The Guardian - UK

More sex please, we’re bookish: the rise of the x-rated novel

From the Women’s prize to the bestseller lists, authors are pushing the boundaries of how explicit the novel can be – and readers can’t get enough

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I was on the set of Outlander: Blood of my Blood and here's why you shouldn't miss this prequel series

Outlander fans, rejoice, it is time to time travel back to Scotland.

The Independent UK

Judge issues temporary injunction against Trump administration cancellation of humanities grants

A district court judge in New York has issued a preliminary injunction stopping the mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants to members of the Authors Guild on the grounds that their First Amendment rights were violated

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Democrats request copy of Epstein ‘birthday book’ that reportedly contains Trump poem

Ro Khanna and Robert Garcia seek ‘complete and unredacted copy’ of book from Epstein estate lawyers

The Guardian - UK

Decorative books that let the shelf-obsessed appear cultured

Letters: Readers respond to an article about how some people are buying books ‘by the metre’ to create chic interiors

Latin Times

New Trump-to-Epstein Note Revealed: 'To Jeff - You're The Greatest!'

A new note in which President Donald Trump praises disgraced New York financier Jeffrey Epstein has surfaced, drawing scrutiny to how close the two actually were.

The Guardian - US

Trump deflects Epstein questions as he arrives in Scotland for trade talks

President claimed he had not ‘really been following’ justice department’s interview with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell

The Guardian - UK

Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A picture of patience; first days at school; a cruise ship detective; a terrible storm; time travellers; rebels in love and more

The Guardian - UK

Gurnaik Johal: ‘I had no idea Zadie Smith was such a big deal!’

The author on a brilliant biography of Buster Keaton, coming round to Joseph Conrad, and marathon training with Karl Ove Knausgård

Marie Claire

Everything We Know About 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' Netflix Movie Adaptation

Fans have a lot of thoughts about who should play the titular character and Celia St. James.

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