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Is Dua Lipa the best literary interviewer?

The Houdini singer’s online book club is already a hit. Now her interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning authors are gaining new fans

The Guardian - UK

Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter review – a Saltburn-style story of identity

A mixed-race musician is drawn into the unfamiliar milieu of an upper-class family in this plotty debut

The Guardian - UK

Emma Jane Unsworth on new book ‘Slags’: ‘Women are encouraged to feel ashamed of our fantasies’

INTERVIEW: The author of ‘Animals’ and ‘Adults’ talks to Helen Coffey about drugs, booze and oblivion, creating characters ‘that are fun to be around’ and why sibling relationships can be the most complicated of our lives

The Independent UK

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Prayers, Pride In Philippine Papal Contender's Hometown

Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may be one of the favourites to be named the next pope, but a Catholic Sister who has known him for half a century says she will never pray for it to happen.

International Business Times

Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary

The poet gets the prestigious award for New Yorker essays ‘on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza’ amid war.

Al Jazeera

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza

The Guardian - US

Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts

Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

The Independent UK

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The first post-Rise of Skywalker Star Wars project won't be the Ryan Gosling movie, but a new novel starring Finn and Jannah

Star Wars: The Last Order will be the first story set after The Rise of Skywalker

Total Film

Theater producer Jeffrey Seller, behind 'Rent' and 'Hamilton,' shines a light on his own journey

Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind such landmark hits as “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “Hamilton,” didn’t initially write a memoir for us

The Independent UK

Lovie Simone leads new series that adapts Judy Blume's 'Forever...' for TV

Lovie Simone stars in the new Netflix series, “Forever.'

The Independent UK

A civil war in Chile and a president's death by suicide inspired Isabel Allende's new novel

A bloody civil war and the death by suicide of an ousted president served as inspiration for Isabel Allende’s most recent novel, “My Name is Emilia del Valle.”

The Independent UK

Schoolchildren and veterans co-author book of memories for VE Day

Recollections of evacuation, rationing and life after the war were documented in My Life Through WW2.

Evening Standard

Princess Diana Repeated This Surprising Mantra When "Things Got Too Much for Her" With Prince Charles

The late princess took "great strength" from one of her qualities.

Marie Claire

‘It normalises the abhorrent’: is The Handmaid’s Tale the most frustrating show on TV?

As the world edges ever closer to authoritarianism, it would be incredible to watch June fight back against a hellish, misogynistic dystopia. And yet, the final season is as bleak as ever. Where’s the hope we all need?

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Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers

Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd

Louder

"As enjoyable as it is, this seems to be a footnote in the careers of everyone involved": Mixed results as Roger Glover gets his mates in on The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper's Feast

Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover's endearing all-star 1974 period piece revisited

The Guardian - UK

Dream State by Eric Puchner review – an epic tale of paradise lost

A love triangle plays out across generations in this brilliantly panoramic tale of family ties

Louder

“The biggest challenge was not to come off like Tenacious D. It could easily be interpreted as some form of parody”: How Primus made an album about goblins and rainbows while trying not to mention goblins and rainbows

2017’s The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool’s bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children’s story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon

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The Guardian - UK

UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers

New Writing North’s literary venture The Bee includes magazine and podcast, and is supported by Michael Sheen

The Guardian - UK

Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts

The intimate correspondence of a Manchester Guardian journalist and his wife is now the basis for a theatre piece marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day

The Independent UK

Conclave author says papal election process is akin to The Traitors

The conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor will begin on 7 May

The Guardian - UK

Love Groundhog Day and Russian Doll? These are the novels for you

High-concept novels are having a moment. Funny, inventive and crackling with big ideas, these ambitious stories will have you instantly hooked

Evening Standard

Notes to John by Joan Didion: Dispatches from the therapist’s chair are a guilty pleasure

Joan Didion, who died in 2021, never intended Notes to John to be published. They are, as the title intimates, notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and they are about meetings with her psychiatrist, Dr Roger MacKinnon, over the course of a little more than a year, beginning in…

The Independent UK

Books of the month: What to read this May from a superb debut novel to a five-star biography

THE LIST: Martin Chilton shares his May reading highlights

The Guardian - US

Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how

In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love story

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