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What we’re reading: Alan Hollinghurst, Samantha Harvey and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in December

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Love, desire and community: the new generation of readers bonding over romance novels

Young women drawn to ‘morally grey characters’ are driving a boom sparked by TikTok, Instagram and online friendships

The Guardian - AU

Trump Torched Over 'Insane' Claim He Predicted 9/11, 'Wouldn't Have Happened' If Aides Listened

Trump's claim that he predicted the 9/11 attacks and warned about Osama Bin Laden in his book has been thoroughly debunked by fact-checkers and video evidence; critics now question his cognitive fitness as he continues to make contradictory statements.

International Business Times UK

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The Winds of Winter Update: Fan Tells George R.R. Martin He's 'Not Going to Be Around Much Longer'

George R.R. Martin hits back at fans claiming he won't be around to finish The Winds of Winter, insisting he is 'vital' and refuses to hire a ghostwriter.

International Business Times UK

‘They’re all bad – but some are worse than others’: every Harlan Coben show rated

From gaping plot holes to television so confusing it’s actually distressing to watch, here’s our ranking of the US author’s TV adaptations

The Guardian - UK

Molly Parkin obituary: Artist, writer, fashion editor and Swinging Sixties icon dies aged 93

Known for her flamboyant dress sense, foul-mouthed charm and string of famous lovers, the fashion editor, author, artist and self-described ‘astral twin’ of Elizabeth Taylor lived a dazzling life of creativity and hedonism

The Independent UK

Many schools don’t think students can read full novels any more. That’s a tragedy

Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptops

The Guardian - US

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When is 'The Housemaid' streaming? Here's our best guess

Here's our guess as to when you can buy or rent to watch 'The Housemaid' at home, and when you can stream it.

Tom’s Guide

Arborescence by Rhett Davis review – why would people turn into trees?

This quietly satirical speculative novel tells a story of metamorphosis, but feels insulated from real ecological crisis

The Guardian - UK

Michael Schumacher, acclaimed author of biographies of Coppola and Clapton, dies at 75

His daughter confirmed that her father passed away on December 29

The Independent UK

‘There’s this whole other story’: inside the fight to end slavery in the Americas

The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibson, brings together often unheard narratives to tell the bigger picture of a difficult time

The Guardian - US

Man who fell from wall after being tasered by police now confined to wheelchair

Leonard Sandiford said he remembered being hit in the neck or back and waking up in hospital about two months later.

Evening Standard

Australian books to look forward to in 2026: from a 278-page sentence to a memoir about a ‘cursed vagina’

It promises to be a marvellous year ahead for OzLit, with new books from the likes of Kate Grenville, Siang Lu, Antoinette Lattouf, Shaun Micallef, Judith Lucy and more

The Guardian - AU

The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers review – the midlife adultery story our generation deserves

This is a witty takedown of insufferable millennial New Yorkers who have managed to ruin even sex

The Guardian - UK

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Poem of the week: Renegade by Lionel Johnson

A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love

Radio France Internationale

France's last paper Braille publisher fights to survive in the digital age

France's main Braille publisher is in financial crisis after a bold decision to sell its embossed books for the same price as standard ones. Its future raises the broader question of whether printed Braille still matters in the digital age – as its staff and visually impaired volunteers believe it…

The Guardian - UK

Actor and writer Paterson Joseph: ‘Tilda Swinton asked me a question that changed everything that came next’

Joseph on sussing the school system at the age of four, an awkward audition for the National Youth Theatre, and why he loves his ‘horrible’ Peep Show character

Cinemablend

I Just Realized Two Of My Favorite Romances And Bridgerton Season 4 Are Coming Soon

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Woman & Home

Make 2026 your best year - 6 questions to ask yourself

Ready to make 2026 your best year yet? Then ask yourself the same six questions Mel Robbins has been for the last 22 years.

The Guardian - UK

The hill I will die on: Fan fiction is real literature, whatever the snobs say

Yes, it’s messy, derivative and occasionally incomprehensible – but so is life, says comedian Urooj Ashfaq

Cinemablend

As A Book Reader, There Are 5 Big Movies I'm Excited About In 2026

These are the kind of movies that'll get me to put my book down.

The Guardian - UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

The Bonfire Party by Sean O’Brien; Plastic by Matthew Rice; Retablo for a Door by Michelle Penn; Jonah and Me by John F Deane; Intimate Architecture by Tess Jolly

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Miller: ‘DH Lawrence forced me to my feet – I was madly excited’

The novelist on how Lawrence’s The Rainbow made him want to write, the strange genius of Penelope Fitzgerald and finding comfort in Tintin

The Guardian - UK

Blank Canvas by Grace Murray review – a superb debut from a 22-year-old author

In this energisingly original novel, an emotionally detached English student at college in New York tells a big lie

The Guardian - UK

A clearer view of global capitalism

Brief letters: Sven Beckert review | Degrees of uncertainty | Calendar switch | Amended sign | Faux Cyrillic

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