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Kazuo Ishiguro song lyrics collection to be published

The prize-winning novelist’s lyrics, written for US jazz singer Stacey Kent, will be published with illustrations next March

The Guardian - UK

Richard Ayoade and Jonathan Ross endorse Graham Linehan memoir about being ‘cancelled’

Review quotes for TV writer’s forthcoming memoir have caused online debate

The Independent UK

Texas was state with most book bans in 2022, report shows

Number of book challenges nationwide doubled from 2021 as book ban movement gathers speed in Republican-led states

The Guardian - US

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Stand up for free speech in the face of threats to bomb libraries and ban books

The Harold Washington Library and several suburban libraries received anonymous threats on Tuesday, the same day Sen. Dick Durbin held hearings in Washington on book bans.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins review – talk like a pro

The BBC’s analysis editor shares his tips on how to communicate with clarity and confidence

The Guardian - UK

Debut novel by Millie Bobby Brown reignites debate over ghostwritten celebrity books

Publishing figures defend Stranger Things star’s book, Nineteen Steps, after this week’s publication ignites criticism on social media

The Guardian - UK

Charity launches award and database to encourage diversity in children’s books

Inclusive Books for Children survey found that two thirds of ethnic minority parents struggle to find representative books to read their children

The Guardian - UK

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My Work by Olga Ravn review – a daring portrait of motherhood

A writer struggles after becoming a mother in this vibrant, genre-busting study of the divided self

The Guardian - UK

Sidney Blumenthal joins Guardian US as a Regular Columnist

Guardian US has appointed award-winning journalist Sidney Blumenthal as a regular columnist.

The Guardian - UK

What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells review – Shakespearean speculation

An eminent scholar tries to imagine the great playwright’s character and tastes. But can we really know the bard?

The Guardian - UK

Autumn reads: the unmissable new books to hunker down with

From spine-chilling short stories to philisophical memoirs and historical fiction, Alex Peake-Tomkinson picks the most exciting new books to tuck into this Autumn

Evening Standard

Looking round a school library, I saw something I can’t get out of my mind

I was shocked to find a book for children whose parents are in prison. But I’m glad someone had the compassion to write it

The Guardian - UK

Drew Barrymore dropped from hosting gig after resuming talk show despite writer’s strike

Barrymore has been removed as host for this year’s ceremony, a day after her talk show taped its first episode since the Hollywood writers strike began

The Independent UK

Elon Musk shares private ‘role-play’ photo of Amber Heard

‘I guess I could be called a geek for someone who can also be called a hot chick,’ Ms Heard said in the new Elon Musk biography

The Independent UK

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Argentina shuts down a publisher that sold books praising the Nazis. One person has been arrested

Argentina’s Federal Police have shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person as part of what authorities characterized as a “historic seizure” of Nazi propaganda

Salon

"The Other Black Girl": Work is a horror

There are no jump scares in Hulu's new thriller, but the dread of being Black in a mainly white industry is real

The Independent UK

Brett Kavanaugh accuser to release memoir about her legendary testimony before Senate

Christine Blasey Ford was thrust into the national spotlight after coming forward with allegations that Mr Kavanaugh had assaulted her at a high school party in Maryland in 1982

The Guardian - UK

Blessed are the cheesemakers: University of Leeds acquires oldest surviving book about British cheese

16th-century ‘pamflyt compiled of cheese’ offers a comprehensive survey of British varieties – and their dubious medical benefits

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The Independent UK

Republican senator reads explicit passages from LGBT+ memoirs in misleading stunt at book ban hearing

Neither of the books are shelved in library children’s sections in John Kennedy’s state

The Guardian - UK

Tobias Hill obituary

Novelist and poet who was intrigued by what lay beneath the surface of things and whose fiction often had London at its heart

The Guardian - UK

Porn addicts, vicars, madmen and murderers: Sarah Ogilvie on the Oxford English Dictionary’s unlikely writers

In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth

The Guardian - US

Christine Blasey Ford to release memoir detailing Kavanaugh testimony

Book, to be published in March, will share ‘riveting new details’ on lead-up to Senate testimony and ‘its overwhelming aftermath’

The Guardian - US

Wildcat review – Ethan Hawke directs daughter in mediocre literary biopic

Maya Hawke makes for an unconvincing Flannery O’Connor in an obvious, misfiring drama that takes big creative swings but mostly misses

The Guardian - UK

The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk review – ‘PC gone mad’ revisited

A befuddled takedown of progressive thought

The Guardian - AU

My Brilliant Career to be adapted into a pop-rock musical as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2024 lineup

‘Joyful’ new show to cap off MTC season also featuring Pulitzer-winning plays Topdog/Underdog and English, and a ‘fresh take’ on A Streetcar Named Desire

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