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The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch

The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamics

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: a KGB ‘illegal’ tells all, a cold case half-solved, and ‘the Citizen Kane of rock movies’

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Guardian - AU

What a boob: Texas school district bans Virginia state flag and seal over naked breast

Students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database due to the ban

The Guardian - US

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The mooInk V is the most book-like ereader I've ever seen

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Brooke Boney: ‘It’s hard to see yourself in so much pain’

The Gamilaroi journalist and presenter on fame, reconciliation and how studying at Oxford changed the way she thinks about people in power

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The Inseparables review – friendship falters in an impassioned Simone de Beauvoir adaptation

Young adulthood takes its toll on a relationship between two young women in a tenderly realised production of de Beauvoir’s unpublished story from the 1950s

The Guardian - UK

Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s unusual memoir maps his journey through the republic’s memoryscape

Any attempt at recreating the contours of personal memory against the landscape of a nation’s historical journey is a daunting task for any chronicler. Even more challenging is the interweaving of an individual life into the tapestry of seven-and-a-half decades of national experience – a task that often calls for…

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23 People Share The Most Hard-To-Believe Facts That Are Actually True

Not everything that sounds right is true. And far from everything that sounds fake is false. Reality is—quite often—stranger than fiction.

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‘A surfyte of cheese doth bringe payne’: Leeds University transcribes early book on cheese

First known such ‘pamflyt’ in English has contemporary resonance, with advice on food intolerances and eating cheese after a meal

The Guardian - UK

Rosarita by Anita Desai audiobook review – a moving tale of memory and identity

Narrator Meera Simhan draws out the dreamlike atmosphere of a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by Veronika Dapunt

The Guardian - UK

6 Summer Books to Clear Your Mind (or Totally Escape It)

From breakthrough habits to beach-worthy thrillers, these summer reads will help you refocus your mind or blissfully forget what day it is.

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Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it

The Guardian - UK

Tributes paid to late historian who was ‘gifted leader of blind people’

Dr Fred Reid died on March 29 following a short illness.

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The Guardian view on the meaning of life: Easter and the ultimate question

Editorial: From Verdi to Douglas Adams, artists and writers have wrestled with why we are here. The Christian festival gives us pause to reflect

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The Handmaid's Tale: Does June get Hannah back at the end of season 6?

It's been June's endgame from the very first moments of The Handmaid's Tale, but will she be reunited with her daughter Hannah at the end of season 6?

The Guardian - UK

John Loveday obituary

Other lives: Headteacher who wrote a novel, a children’s book, several volumes of poetry and a memoir

The Guardian - AU

The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana review – a startling road trip as original as it is timely

Two discontented young men embark on a journey that the reader quickly knows will be violent and doomed – and yet this novel remains almost unbearably tense

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The Independent UK

Steve Coogan isn’t earnest enough for the dire political comedy The Penguin Lessons

2/5 Finally a film that asks ‘could an adorable flightless bird convince Alan Partridge to stand up to Argentina’s military dictatorship?’

Radio France Internationale

Book alleges Vatican knew of French priest's sexual abuse as early as 1955

The French church is to question the Vatican over revelations published Thursday that it knew about sexual abuse allegations against French charity icon Abbé Pierre as early as the 1950s.

The Independent UK

Filmmaker-music journalist Cameron Crowe has a memoir out this fall. It’s called ‘The Uncool'

Cameron Crowe was planning to compile some of his old music interviews for a book when he realized he had a more personal story to tell

The Guardian - UK

Ghosts review – gasps and laughter greet this modern revamp of Ibsen’s shocker

Gary Owen’s retelling changes the names and themes from the original, but retains the toxic power as a stellar cast negotiate the myriad secrets and suspicions

The Guardian - UK

The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

The philanthropist offers sensible advice about moving on and ditching perfectionism, but you get the impression she is struggling to take it herself

The Guardian - UK

Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody

The privileged world of Bloomsbury group is vividly evoked in this novel of a life shaped by devastating loss

The Independent UK

George RR Martin calls long overdue Game of Thrones novel ‘the curse of my life’

‘I have periods where I make progress and then other things divert my attention,’ admitted the author

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