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Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print

From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

The Guardian - UK

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese

Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

The Guardian - AU

The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire

Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline

The Guardian - UK

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Schools in England sidelining dressing-up for World Book Day, MPs hear

Literacy experts say move comes over cost concerns and fears costumes can detract from reading for pleasure

The Guardian - UK

Former Prince Andrew "Thinks He's Anointed" and Finds Public Backlash "Deeply Unfair," Says Royal Expert

"Status is everything to him—it’s his only sense of identity."

Marie Claire

Christina Applegate unleashes a raw, probing memoir: 'You with the Sad Eyes'

Christina Applegate releases a blunt new memoir that lays out her fame, trauma and illness without a filter

The Independent UK

Arts Council England faces legal threat over magazine’s withdrawal of poet’s work

Publicly funded journal pulled poem citing writer’s ‘social media presence’, with solicitors alleging discrimination over gender-critical views

The Guardian - UK

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Christina Applegate has written the most devastating celebrity memoir of the year

THE READING LIST: The star of ‘Married… with Children’ and ‘Anchorman’ unpacks her history of abuse, violence and self-loathing in her brutal yet darkly funny new book, ‘You with the Sad Eyes’. It is a remarkable, authentic achievement, writes Adam White

The Independent UK

Tanya Bush Has a Hunger For Good Food Writing

The writer and pastry chef knows what it means to savor something—be it a great meal or a novel you can’t put down

Marie Claire

They by Helle Helle review – a novel to make the reader slow down and take notice

Minimalist but never austere, this mother-daughter portrait from the Danish author finds its power in everyday detail

The Guardian - UK

Why Frankenstein should win the best picture Oscar

Guillermo del Toro has overcome the Academy’s aversion to fantasy before and with this heartfelt telling of the monster classic he should do it again

The Guardian - UK

Carole Middleton's "Constant Presence" in Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis's Lives Gives the Family "More Room to Breathe"

"The time to address George's future certainly wasn't now."

Marie Claire

Lyn Smith obituary

Other lives: Oral historian who conducted hundreds of interviews for the Imperial War Museum’s Sound Archive

The Guardian - UK

How One "Embarrassing Mishap" Showed Queen Camilla's "True Colors" at a Royal Event

"It slowly dawned on me who she was."

Marie Claire

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Josephine Gardiner obituary

Other lives: Journalist at the Times Educational Supplement who later wrote a crime novel set in Cornwall

International Business Times UK

The Winds of Winter News Update: Why It's Time for George R.R. Martin to Officially Abandon TWOW

An opinion piece argues George R.R. Martin should officially abandon The Winds of Winter after years of stalled progress and increasingly bleak remarks about the project.

The Guardian - UK

Becoming George by Fiona Sampson review – the remarkable story of a cross-dressing 19th century novelist

A reappraisal of one of literature’s most sensational personalities, the author of more than 70 books

The Guardian - UK

The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain review – virtuoso portrait of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’s final year

Portraying the breakdown of the couple’s marriage through the eyes of the people around them, this deeply researched and utterly convincing debut is an astonishing achievement

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The Independent UK

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels are simple and unadorned – no wonder they’re easy to turn into films

INSIDE FILM: Flashy novelists like Martin Amis can never seem to be done right on screen. So perhaps it’s the restrained prose of Ishiguro – the writer behind ‘The Remains of the Day’, ‘Never Let Me Go’ and ‘A Pale View of Hills’ – that makes his work so filmable,…

The Guardian - AU

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and The Terror, dies aged 77

Award-winning science fiction and horror writer died in Colorado on 21 February with family at his side

Cycling News

'I had no idea what I was in for' – Tracey Gaudry looks back on a crucial moment in Melbourne to Warrnambool history in this 'Wheel Life 3' book extract

Inside that 1994 edition when Gaudry added her name to the, at the time very short, Melbourne to Warrnambool women's finishers list

AAP

Palestinian author lashes 'racist' festival axing

Randa Abdel-Fattah has opened up on her cancellation from Adelaide Writers' Week in a wide-ranging conversation with former festival director Louise Adler.

Evening Standard

What’s written all over our faces

What do our faces really say about us?

Cinemablend

We've Been Waiting For Terminal List Season 2 For Nearly 4 Years, And We Finally Have A Long-Awaited Update

The wait is getting closer to being over.

International Business Times UK

Is The Winds of Winter Delayed Again? George R.R. Martin Urged to Quit 'Curse' Book After 15-Year Failure

Fifteen years after George R.R. Martin began work on The Winds of Winter, the author admits his page count has barely moved as his focus shifts to TV spin‑offs and novellas.

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