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The 10 Best Classic Sci-Fi Books (That Still Hold Up)

When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high school English. While not every novel hailed as…

The Mary Sue

Voices: ‘I want to scream’: Readers rage over grammar gone wrong

YOUR VIEWS: From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their biggest grammar gripes

The Independent UK

Semicolons are becoming increasingly rare; their disappearance should be resisted

A recent study has found a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a longterm trend:

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Our best punctuation mark is dying out; people need to learn how to use it

IN FOCUS: The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ourselves on its usefulness as the chicest grammatical tool

The Independent UK

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

The Guardian - UK

When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all

The Guardian - UK

Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game is back in stores after 70 years of obscurity and one sold-out print run

GHQ is a wargame—of sorts.

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Here’s Which Books You Should Read At Sydney’s Iconic Swimming Spots For Bookworm Baddie Energy

Nothing like the smell of ocean breeze, sunscreen and a fresh book.

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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan review – vividly crafted Depression-era tales

The US author’s debut collection from 1934 focuses on impoverished individuals in precarious times using language that is punchy and full of compassion

The Guardian - UK

Florida officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled

The Guardian - US

‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’: Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

‘Some kid had credited a column of life advice in the Chicago Tribune to the writer of Slaughterhouse-Five. It then spread on a new invention called the world wide web. I thought it would make a great spoken word song’

The Guardian - UK

An Instagram Star Walks the Fine Line Between Self-Creation and Snake Oil

Social media influencer Caroline Calloway might not be a reliable narrator, but Scammer is an honest memoir nevertheless.

Reason

Mieko Kawakami: ‘Franz Kafka is my comfort read’

The Japanese author on the humour of Kurt Vonnegut, the joys of James Joyce and translating Beatrix Potter

The Guardian - UK

A Cold Spell by Max Leonard review – from cube to crisis

A fascinating exploration of how ice has shaped human existence

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The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: what lies in the post-Wilko era?

Cold Girl Summer of 2023 is coming to an end and we are left with nowhere to fart around, as Kurt Vonnegut would say

The Conversation

Why Kurt Vonnegut's advice to college graduates still matters today

Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver the famous “Wear Sunscreen” graduation speech published in the Chicago Tribune that was often mistakenly attributed to the celebrated author. But he could have.

The Guardian - UK

From Evil Dead Rise to Everything But the Girl: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s the latest instalment of the splattertastic franchise or the return of some electropop greats, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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Evening Standard

Five facts about Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel-prize winning Japanese writer who died this month

Oe said interviewing Chairman Mao was “so boring”

Benzinga

Veterans Day, Kurt Vonnegut, War, Cannabis, PTSD: Some Thoughts To Ponder

Kurt Vonnegut, who would be 100 years old today, never liked the name Veterans Day. He preferred to call it Armistice Day, which marked the end of WWI, a day of peace when an armistice preceded a peace treaty…"a moment," Vonnegut wrote, "when armies stop killing each other."

The Guardian - UK

‘If masterpiece means anything, it means Cat’s Cradle’: the Kurt Vonnegut novels everyone should read

On his centenary, there are many glories to honour, not least Slaughterhouse-Five. But his best book is this pocket epic in which the world ends to the tune of the false religion of Bokononism, thinks John Self

The Guardian - UK

Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘There’s a Sri Lankan gallows humour… we’ve been through a lot of catastrophes’

The novelist on finding dark farce in his country’s civil war, his grunge band past, and the ‘lottery win’ of the Booker shortlist

Reason

How Slaughterhouse-Five Became a Repeated Target of Book Burners

As recently as 2011, a school board in Missouri barred the book from the curriculum and ordered it confined to a special section of the school's library.

Chicago Tribune

Adam Levin’s latest big, huge novel throws Chicago into a giant sinkhole. After all, he lives in Florida now.

CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known…

The Guardian - UK

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time review – a satisfyingly intimate profile

Friendship lies at the heart of Robert B Weide’s documentary about the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, filmed over the last 20 years of the writer’s life

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