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Gurnaik Johal: ‘I had no idea Zadie Smith was such a big deal!’

The author on a brilliant biography of Buster Keaton, coming round to Joseph Conrad, and marathon training with Karl Ove Knausgård

The Guardian - UK

Hearts of Darkness: A Film-Maker’s Apocalypse review – Francis Ford Coppola and the mother of all meltdowns

Coppola said his masterpiece Apocalypse Now ‘is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam’ – this superb film shows how little he was exaggerating

The Guardian - UK

10 essential Vietnam War movies that left a lasting impact

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across not just one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, but has led filmmakers for the past half century to reckon with its complicated legacy

The Independent UK

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The best closing lines from books - from poignant final passages to chilling closing sentences

These brilliant closing lines will stay with you long after you put the book down

Woman & Home

Hisham Matar: ‘I learned English by listening to Jane Austen audiobooks’

The British-Libyan author on Hemingway’s craft, finding comfort in Joseph Conrad, and spending six months drowning in Austen

The Guardian - UK

The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione

A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on the streets of the world’s financial capital.

The Conversation

Five of the best books translated from Polish

The wide breadth of Polish humour and humanity is all here, from reportage and absurdist satire to historical epics and soulful poetry

The Guardian - UK

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One Another by Gail Jones review – a writer’s obsession with Joseph Conrad

Jones’s latest novel is complex and delicate, charting echoes in the lives of a PhD student in 90s Cambridge and the Heart of Darkness author, who she is fascinated by

The Guardian - AU

‘Bold’, ‘extremely fun’, ‘luminously written’: the best Australian books out in March

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU

Your Weekender reads: chefs' Christmas feasts; Benjalu; blacksmiths are back; Tom Jones

Newcastle Herald Weekender: unmissable reads Saturday, December 9

Newcastle Herald

Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop review – a colonial obsession

A gripping semi-historical imagining of the memories and experiences of a French naturalist in 18th-century Africa

The Guardian - UK

‘Butcher’s Crossing’: Nicolas Cage keeps the madness under control in tightly spun Western

Actor mesmerizes as obsessive hunter at home where the buffalo roam.

Chicago Sun-Times

From Peaky Blinders to Band of Brothers: it’s Stephen Graham’s 20 best TV roles ever

His impeccable taste has seen him star in incredible shows from Line of Duty to This Is England. We rank his performances

The Guardian - UK

Look back at Giorgio Napolitano: learn the limits of dogma and how good leaders can change lives

The former Italian president was a communist who learned that the common good involves compromise, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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The Independent UK

The 6 most glaring edits to Roald Dahl’s books by publisher Puffin

Author’s children’s stories have been rewritten to remove language deemed problematic

The Independent UK

The 6 most glaring edits to Roald Dahl’s books by publisher Puffin

Author’s children’s stories have been rewritten to remove language deemed problematic

The Guardian - UK

Paul Theroux: ‘Writing is a blood sport. One does have differences with people’

The prolific novelist and travel writer is 81 but shows no signs of slowing down. He talks about adventure, criticism… and that memoir by his ex-wife

The Guardian - UK

Agent behind James Bond spy Vesper Lynd given new role in UK-Poland relations

Wartime operative Krystyna Skarbek, lauded by Churchill, will serve as a symbol of the cultural ties between the allies

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Sorcha Dallas tells how Alasdair Gray's art permeated Glasgow's West End

ALAN Riach: Sorcha, could you tell us first about your earliest encounters with Alasdair Gray and his work? Where did you first meet him? How did…

The Guardian - UK

Trouble in mind: the best film, music, TV, literature and drama for a guilty conscience

From My Name Is Earl’s journey of redemption to Dave’s stirring origin story, our critics recommend art that deals with shame and regret

The Conversation

Four novelists, one ocean: how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world

Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps do.

The Conversation

Death and horror in real time prove our almost limitless capacity for evil

The human affinity for blood sport is both ancient and long standing. But there is an even more distressing angle to viewing man-made evil and horror. In the age of digital technology capturing gory scenes of anguish and death is strangely becoming de rigueur. And recorded death and horror in…

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