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Kevin Feige Just Shattered MCU TV Canon

The Marvel president finally sets the record straight about how the MCU TV universe works.

Inverse

Exhibits and collectors editions mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions, including one that sells for $1,500

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie: allow writers to create characters outside of their own experience

Booker prize-winning author said that if ‘only women can write about women and straight people about straight people’ then it signals the ‘death of art’

The Guardian - UK

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George Harrison’s sarcastic response after being stabbed 40 times

Musician still found time for comedy after almost dying in harrowing incident

The Independent UK

Right-wing ghouls come for the book fair

So much for "parents rights" — now they're preventing parents from buying books for their kids

Salon

Holding the Note by David Remnick review – erudite portraits of musical greats

A collection of the New Yorker editor’s pieces on the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Aretha Franklin displays enviable knowledge and scope

The Guardian - UK

George Harrison biography shares Beatles star’s sarcastic response after being stabbed 40 times

Musician still found time for comedy after almost dying in harrowing incident

The Independent UK

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Don’t listen to Arnold Schwarzenegger – join the rest and relaxation resistance!

Arnie’s brand of hustle culture is taking a bashing online and I am all for it. Do less, enjoy more and take that nap, writes Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

Toxic by Sarah Ditum review – a decade of misogyny, from Britney to Paris Hilton

These nine feminist essays about female celebrities of the 00s expose the casual sexism of the era and the way it shaped ordinary women’s lives

The Guardian - UK

Sam Lansky: the ghostwriter who helped bring Britney’s troubled story to the page

American journalist and author Sam Lansky has reportedly helped to shape Britney’s globally anticipated memoir, ‘The Woman in Me’. Having written a book about his turbulent teen years and interviewed A-listers from Adele to Madonna, he’s well placed to shepherd the star’s story, writes Annabel Nugent

The Independent UK

Anthony Holden obituary

Journalist, author and poker player who worked for the Sunday Times and became music critic of the Observer

The Guardian - UK

In brief: One Woman Show; Normal Women; Inciting Joy – reviews

A spry story of art’s interplay with power; Philippa Gregory charts 900 years of weavers, nuns and housewives; and Ross Gay waxes lyrical in a rambling collection of essays

The Guardian - UK

Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop review – a journey into the slave trade

The Senegalese-French writer’s fictionalised account of a real 18th-century naturalist’s experiences in Senegal serves as a compelling critique of colonial violence

The Guardian - UK

‘A call to action to love ourselves’: how women in their 50s can leave the shadows

As roles and circumstances change, women in their 50s can look inwards and find a deep acceptance of themselves

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‘Juicy revelations are required’: will Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith memoirs satisfy?

To produce a bestseller, stars must hold back on confessional social media posts and save explosive details for the page

The Guardian - UK

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward review – a gruelling trek through the antebellum south

The two-time winner of the National Book award returns with the tale of an enslaved woman’s journey to Louisiana, rendered in relentless detail

The Guardian - UK

Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel stands in tribute to his defiance of dementia

The late Colombian author didn’t want his final book published, but his sons’ decision to do so is inspiring to writers like me

The Guardian - UK

Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor review – an epic hymn to a ‘joyously vulgar’ pair

Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars

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The Independent UK

Boy Parts author Eliza Clark: ‘Everything’s become bland – people just don’t want the slop anymore’

The 29-year-old novelist behind bestsellers ‘Boy Parts’ and ‘Penance’ – and named one of Britain’s future literary stars by Granta – speaks to Adam White about class, criticism and moral puritanism

The Guardian - UK

John le Carré biographer Adam Sisman: ‘He wanted to make me love him’

Sisman, whose new book on the spy turned novelist chronicles his many extramarital affairs, discusses the morality of biography and how le Carré attempted to seduce him

The Hindu

Three-day cultural festival at Sree Narayana Guru Cultural Complex

Vidyarambham, a book fair, anti-war film festival, folk music, fusion dance, Koodiyattam, Padayani, painting camp, heritage village exhibition, and lecture series will be part of the festival

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Es Devlin’s cultural highlights

The set designer and artist on the most extraordinary opera, a gut-wrenching Sudanese-American poet and a writer’s new angle on economics

Chicago Sun-Times

Book details colorful rise and fall of gambling mecca across river from Cincinnati

Kevin P. Braig, the Judge of the Logan County Court of Common Pleas in Bellefontaine, Ohio, next year will publish “Bookmakers vs. Ball Owners: The Untold Stories of the Birth, Death and Resurrection of Sports Gambling in America.”

Inverse

40 Years Ago, a Legendary Sci-Fi Director Made the Most Underrated Stephen King Thriller

From 'The Shining' to 'Firestarter,' movies based on King's novels have varied wildly in quality. A forgotten adaptation is secretly one of the best.

The Guardian - UK

UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity

Exclusive: Department for Education monitoring social media posts from England-based staff for criticism of its policies

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