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The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

The Independent UK

‘It’s all in the ears’: John Updike’s paean to Mickey Mouse, 1992

The novelist had grown up with the much-loved Disney rodent

The Guardian - UK

John Barth obituary

American postmodernist novelist whose experimental approach challenged literary conventions

The Guardian - UK

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Without our voice, we actors are lost

When a celebrated voice coach feels she has to resign, it’s a poor reflection on the state of drama in the UK

The Guardian - UK

Make coffee. Shower. Clean the loo. In an age of choice, rituals are the key to happiness

Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days is on to something with its depiction of main character Hirayama’s calm, habitual life

The Guardian - UK

Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal

Ross Levinsohn sacking was to ‘improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company’, says board, two weeks after fake authors exposed

The Guardian - AU

‘Damn, that fool can write’: how Martin Amis made everyone up their game

He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confounded his peers

The Guardian - UK

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Ian McEwan on ageing, legacy and the attack on his friend Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s beyond the edge of human cruelty’

The author’s new novel explores how global events shape individual lives – but nothing prepared him for this ‘dark moment’

The Guardian - UK

Laurie Hertzel: Judging the job of the critic

Actress Viola Davis recently said that critics serve no purpose. Is that true?

Tribune News Service

Longtime New Yorker writer, editor Roger Angell has died

Writer Roger Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker.

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Julia review – Sarah Lancashire’s wonderful performance is straight out of classic cinema

This biopic of TV chef Julia Child is so charming and warm it’s televisual comfort food – seasoned with a fabulously old-fashioned turn from its lead

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