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Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by AN Wilson review – a poignant memoir

The controversialist is in a reflective mood as he examines his parents’ troubled relationship and the failures of his first marriage

The Guardian - UK

The White Rock by Anna Hope review – Mexican gods, looters and miracles

In this deeply satisfying novel, a sacred rock provides the fulcrum for four loosely connected stories exploring ancient ritual and healing

The Guardian - UK

The writers retelling Libya’s history through a feminist lens

How Libya’s women novelists are reframing the country’s stories in a post-Gaddafi era.

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JK Rowling says new novel ‘genuinely wasn’t’ inspired by backlash to her comments on the trans community

‘The first draft of the book was finished at the point certain things happened’

The Independent UK

Litty Committee: Spring Is Officially Here & So Are These Blooming Brilliant Books

Virgos, time to update your birthday wishlist.

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J.K. Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows

In The Ink Black Heart, a popular cartoonist is harassed and killed after her work is criticized as transphobic. Observers say the plot mirrors Rowling's experience, though she calls it a coincidence.

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Book of the Week: Speed, LSD and other thrills

Philip Matthews on a reissued stoner classic

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'White Noise' review: Noah Baumbach’s apocalyptic new movie is the most American film ever made

'White Noise,' Noah Baumbach’s black comedy about an "airborne toxic event," has plenty to say about death, family, and our addiction to spectacle.

Inverse

Amazon to unveil its $1bn bet with 'Lord of the Rings' prequel launch

LOS ANGELES - Stanley Kubrick once famously said that J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy of novels was unfilmable.

Bangkok Post

Did J.K. Rowling write a 1,000+ page book because Twitter hurt her feelings?

The egregiously long book is about a transphobic animator who gets murdered after creating a story about a hermaphroditic worm.

Mic

White Noise review – Don DeLillo adaptation is a blackly comic blast

DeLillo’s novel of campus larks and eco dread has long been ogled by Hollywood. Now it gets an elegant, droll treatment from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of After The Lights Go Out by John Vercher and The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves.

The Independent UK

The Trees by Percival Everett review – potent satire of US racism

This Booker-longlisted investigation of gruesome murders in Mississippi addresses a deep political issue through page-turning comic horror

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Canada spy smuggled UK’s Shamima Begum into Syria: New book

Inquiry is demanded after new book suggests UK covered up Canada’s role in British teenager’s journey to join ISIL.

The Guardian - UK

Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley review – in search of the elusive author

The historian shines a light on the modernity of Christie’s crime fiction and debunks the myths surrounding her disappearance

Los Angeles Times

LA novelist Laura Warrell on the music and heartbreak that inspired her debut

LOS ANGELES -- After years of being heartbroken and disappointed by musicians, Laura Warrell finally added them, alongside bartenders and skateboarders, to her list of "Off Limits Men."

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Barton Goldsmith: You can only handle so much disappointment

I just had the biggest disappointment of this very tough year: My publisher is delaying the release of my latest book, “until market conditions change.” This is a biggie for me, and I am sharing it with you, because I want you to know that, even with all I have…

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Gwendolyn Kiste rewrites famous horror heroines' stories in 'Reluctant Immortals'

PITTSBURGH — There was always something about the stories of Lucy Westenra and Bertha Mason that Gwendolyn Kiste felt were incomplete — and that's putting it generously.

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Review: 'Reluctant Immortals' cleverly restores agency to 2 mistreated characters

If you're going to completely reimagine the stories of two famous literary characters, you might as well do it with style.

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Review: 'Where Are the Snows,' by Kathleen Rooney

Reading Kathleen Rooney's "Where Are the Snows" is much like walking into an echo chamber from which you emerge enlightened, amused and shaken. In each poem, sounds, ideas and positions rise, repeat and mutate, as in this line from a poem on outer space: "Black hole as home for the…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The ‘Maya Angelou of Iraq,’ a refugee living in South Jersey, publishes a powerful memoir

Writer Faleeha Hassan had a strange dream.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The House of Fortune,' by Jessie Burton

"The House of Fortune," Jessie Burton's fourth novel for adults, is that rare, double-headed beast. It is a sequel to the author's first book, "The Miniaturist" (2014), an acclaimed work of historical fiction which enchanted legions of readers. But it is also a standalone novel that can be enjoyed by…

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Review: 'Acceptance,' by Emi Nietfeld

At 17, Minneapolis native Emi Nietfeld won a prestigious national writing award and told a Twin Cities newspaper reporter that she wanted to write a memoir. Thirteen years later, "Acceptance" has been published, and it's extraordinary.

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Review: 'Diary of a Misfit,' by Casey Parks

Putting down this wonderfully sensitive, affecting memoir, I half expected to see wavy fumes — smelling of tobacco, crawfish, beer, rain — rising from the book itself.

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