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Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry review – a survivor’s song

This sublime study of love, trauma, memory and loss explores the legacy of childhood abuse in Ireland’s Catholic institutions

The Guardian - UK

Iranian Foundation Offers Land to Salman Rushdie’s Attacker

An Iranian foundation has praised a man accused of severely injuring novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack last year and promised him 1,000 sq metres of agricultural land, state TV reported on Tuesday on its Telegram channel. Rushdie, 75, lost an eye and the use of one hand following the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nicola Sturgeon to chair festival event with 'Queen of Crime' Val McDermid

FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon will chair a conversation with Scottish “Queen of Crime” Val McDermid at Granite Noir, Aberdeen’s crime writing…

The National (Scotland)

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"Woke, Inc." author Vivek Ramaswamy enters 2024 presidential election

"American today is so hungry for meaning and identity," he told Axios.

Axios

Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger to release book in October

The former Illinois Republican, one of two GOP House members who voted to impeach President Trump, will tell the story of the party’s takeover by extremists.

Chicago Sun-Times

A powerhouse cast navigates a seriously abridged ‘Villette’ at Lookingglass Theatre

Clocking in at just over two and a half hours, Sara Gmitter’s adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s “Villette,” feels abridged to the point of incompleteness.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pompeo’s PAC made bulk book order on the same day his memoir was released

A political action committee founded by the former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent more than $42,000 on a bulk order of books the same day his memoir “Never Give An Inch” went on sale.

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Southern Baptists oust Saddleback Church over woman pastor

The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted its second-largest church — Saddleback Church — for having a woman pastor

The Independent UK

Ruth Langsford brands Roald Dahl book changes 'wrong' and 'dangerous' on Loose Women

Loose Women panelists discussed the reports that new editions of children's books by Roald Dahl have been edited to remove language that may now be deemed offensive or inappropriate

Daily Mirror

Roald Dahl's books have been edited to stop calling people fat so much

New editions of classic 20th century children's books by British author Roald Dahl — such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "James and the Giant Peach," "Matilda," "The Witches" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" — have been edited and rewritten to remove language seen as offensive or potentially insensitive to modern-day…

Los Angeles Times

Paul Hyams obituary

Other lives: Expert in medieval history who taught for long spells at Oxford and then Cornell University in the US

The Guardian - UK

'Emily' review: The power and fire of the gifted, strange Brontë sister

Late in her own relatively short life, the writer Charlotte Brontë published a brief "biographical notice" about her two sisters, Emily and Anne, both fellow writers who died tragically young. Of Emily, who died in 1848 at the age of 30 after publishing her sole novel "Wuthering Heights," Charlotte wrote,…

Tribune News Service

Arts and letters academy votes in Everett, Coppola, others

The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett

The Independent UK

'The changes in Roald Dahl's books are offensive - I'd rather be fat than enormous'

Confidence strategist Lizi Jackson-Barrett has spoken out about the changes to Roald Dahl's books, saying they are unnecessary and in some cases the new texts are more insulting than the original

Daily Mirror

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Radio France Internationale

Non merci, say Dahl's French publishers to rewrites

The French publishers of Roald Dahl on Tuesday ruled out any changes to the late British author's translated books after reports that English editions were being rewritten for modern audiences.

The Independent UK

Former US Rep. Adam Kinzinger to release book in October

The Illinois Republican who broke with his party two years ago after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol has a book deal

Bristol Post

Review: Emilia staged by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at Circomedia

What is fact and what is fiction in Sally Cookson's powerful production about one of the nation's first professional female poets is irrelevant, as an immensely talented cast put on a blistering performance

Edinburgh Live

JK Rowling's ex-husband 'hid Harry Potter manuscript to stop her leaving'

After discovering where the manuscript was, the author secretly started photocopying a few pages each day to ensure her work would not be lost to her legions of future readers.

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Daily Record

JK Rowling's ex-husband 'held first Harry Potter manuscript hostage' to try stop her leaving him

The author said Portuguese TV reporter Jorge Arantes hid the original pages of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone forcing her to photocopy them in secret.

Chicago Tribune

Worst movie made from a good book? Or what’s the best movie adapted from a lousy novel?

Adapting a book to the screen, successfully: If a reliable formula for that creative challenge existed, we wouldn’t have “The Bonfire of the Vanities” or “The Lovely Bones” or “The Great Gatsby” (any of ‘em) to kick around anymore.

Reuters

Iranian foundation offers land to Salman Rushdie's attacker - state TV

The Guardian - UK

You Are Not Alone by Cariad Lloyd review – the mourning after

In this moving and funny meditation on loss, the host of the award-winning podcast Griefcast argues that shared stories are an effective response to death

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: Why edits to Roald Dahl’s classics matter – and the real reason they were made

In today’s newsletter: Whether you agree with changes to outdated language or not, there’s a bigger story unfolding about the publishing industry

Bangkok Post

Roald Dahl’s books rewritten to make them 'less offensive'

LONDON: New editions of the works of Roald Dahl - the bestselling British novelist whose children’s classics include “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “James and the Giant Peach” - have been rewritten to make them less offensive and more inclusive, according to a representative from the author’s estate.

Wales Online

Michelle Keegan says 'finally the secret's out' as she makes career announcement

The actress has confirmed she'll be starring in the latest Harlan Coben adaptation on Netflix

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