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Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland review – a toothless abortion tale

If novels like this one are feminist – and that’s a slippery question – then it feels like a masochistic kind of empowerment

The Guardian - AU

‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best Alice Munro short stories

The greatest examples of the late writer’s uncanny ability to capture the many complexities of life range from stories of sex to loneliness

The Guardian - US

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Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92

Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade

The Guardian - UK

Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death

Leading cultural figures including Margaret Atwood sign statement in support of rapper who criticised Iranian regime

The Guardian - UK

‘I can say things other people are afraid to’: Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump

At 84, The Handmaid’s Tale author is as outspoken as ever. She talks about aging, culture wars - and why “the orange guy” can’t be allowed back into the White House

The Guardian - UK

Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change

2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam

The Guardian - UK

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‘No one comes back’: Margaret Atwood’s anti-war poem debuts at Venice Biennale

Canadian author’s work, shared exclusively with the Observer, is to be shown alongside art by Goya

The Guardian - UK

Read all about it! The 27 best new books to get lost in

From Salman Rushdie’s terrifying story of surviving a stabbing to David Nicholls’ latest must-read romantic novel, Saskia Kemsley shares her pick of the best new fiction and non-fiction releases for the summer

Evening Standard

A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch audiobook review – from hatpins to glass dildos

Miriam Margolyes, Margaret Atwood and others narrate stories of female progress via a ‘cabinet of curiosities’

The Guardian - UK

Ralph Heimans on painting the Queen, Kevin Rudd, Judi Dench and more

See the exhibition at Canberra's National Portrait Gallery.

The Canberra Times

Why you need to stop being a book cover design snob

Not everything needs to be minimalist.

Creative Bloq

Fourteen Days co-edited by Margaret Atwood review – a pandemic tale

Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Atwood and others come together for a collaborative novel set during the New York lockdown that explores our need for connection

The Guardian - UK

The Handmaid’s Tale review – Poul Ruders’s opera shows Atwood’s novel has lost none of its relevance

While it shies away from some of the brutality of the book, the ENO’s uncluttered staging gives space to the sharply drawn characters and revels in sumptuous atonality

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Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel review – a starry patchwork inspired by the dark days of Covid

Editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston round up 36 big literary names for a spirited Decameron-style collection of shaggy dog stories and tales of lost love

The Guardian - UK

‘There is joy, and there is rage’: the new generation of novelists writing about motherhood

From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a mother

The Conversation

15 literary podcasts to make you laugh, learn and join conversations about books

In his “memoir of the craft”, On Writing, Stephen King lauds books as “a uniquely portable magic”. Among the world’s estimated 5 million podcasts, those devoted to books and reading are so plentiful that I’m tempted to call them the next best thing.

Al Jazeera

A library of the ‘future’: Can it make the world a better place?

Each year, a new manuscript will be sealed in the Silent Room in the Future Library in Norway. The goal? Inspire hope.

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Conversing with the 'restless dead' – a posthumous collection of Hilary Mantel's writing illuminates her singular literary achievement

Hilary Mantel’s writing career falls neatly into two periods: before and after Wolf Hall.

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Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize for dystopian novel 'Prophet Song'

Lynch, 46, had been the bookies' favorite to win the prestigious prize, which usually brings a big boost in sales.

The Independent UK

Zaghari-Ratcliffe left The Handmaid’s Tale in her prison’s ‘secret library’

There have been protests in Iran over laws about what women can wear in public.

The Guardian - UK

‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library

The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project

The Independent UK

Writer Margaret Atwood to receive honorary degree from St Andrews

She is best known for The Handmaid’s Tale, which has since been adapted into an award-winning television series.

The Guardian - UK

Naomi Alderman: ‘A writer’s job is courage. You’ve got to be as honest as you can”

The bestselling author of The Power talks about her new techno-thriller, coping with grief and finding hope in the darkest of stories

The Conversation

A Memoir of My Former Self: Hilary Mantel's final book is a reminder of the many stories she still had to tell

In A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, Hilary Mantel writes: “There is no failed writing, only work pending.” She’s referring to the 97 notebooks that she kept in a wooden box. Mantel promised: “There is nothing I won’t say, only what I haven’t said yet.”

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