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25 Books By LGBTQ+ Authors You Need to Add to Your Reading List

You won't be able to put down these moving memoirs and touching romances.

Marie Claire

Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick, 'Culpability,' delves into AI ethics

Oprah Winfrey has selected Bruce Holsinger's novel "Culpability" as her latest book club pick

The Independent UK

Digested week: Climate warning provides more fuel for Brits to talk about weather

Heatwave and an invitation to name storms created record-breaking opportunities to indulge nation’s favourite pastime

The Guardian - UK

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Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died

The Guardian - AU

Major social media platforms fail to protect LGBTQ users, advocacy group GLAAD says

Major social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual Social Media Safety Index

The Independent UK

Ocean Vuong's new novel, 'The Emperor of Gladness,' is Winfrey's latest book club pick

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers

The Independent UK

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong review – heartbreak and hope

The follow-up to On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a tale of precarity and connection in smalltown Connecticut

The Guardian - UK

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‘Buddhism and Björk help me handle fame’: novelist Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous made him a literary superstar. Now the Vietnamese American author is exploring his working-class roots in an ambitious follow‑up

The Guardian - UK

Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism tour review – momentous show for a star who contains multitudes

Lipa’s voice is resonant and fit and she holds her own as a dancer; while there are lulls in energy between the show’s acts, they’re forgiven when she brings the hits

The Guardian - AU

Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time

Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust

The Walrus

TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’

The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf

The Guardian - UK

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel

A young queer activist looks back on how a complex life unspooled into a final, fatal act in the award-winning poet’s ambitious, unflinching tale

The Guardian - UK

Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114

The Guardian - UK

10 writers win 2024 Whiting Awards for emerging authors

Each writer will receive $50,000 to help support their craft — one of largest awards granted to new authors.

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Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize

Judges praised the ‘imaginative capacity and technical flair’ of a collection that draws connections between Shakespeare’s hero and today’s immigrants

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.

Android Central

Patrick Farmer's Top 10 of 2023

A lot happened this year, both at work and in my personal life. Here are some of my favorite things.

The Guardian - US

Lucy Yu’s thriving New York bookstore burned down. How can she rebuild without burning out?

Lucy Yu’s bookstore features works by immigrants and people of color, but a fire earlier this year decimated her business

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The Guardian - UK

Van Huynh Company: Re:birth review – a swirling portrayal of the exhaustion of exile

The UK-based Vietnamese dancer and choreographer stages a piece inspired by the horror and dislocation of war with experimental vocals from Elaine Mitchener

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 Guardian - UK

Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world

The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant

Evening Standard

Arlo Parks: ‘Hip-hop and rap are really beautiful forms of poetry – and an accessible entry point for many’

The acclaimed singer on her debut poetry collection, touring again and the community of women musicians – including Florence Welch and Phoebe Bridgers – who offer each other advice and support

Evening Standard

NYFW: Ralph Lauren’s new American Dream & Helmut Lang’s return to the runways

New York Fashion Week continued this weekend with shows from Ralph Lauren, Helmut Lang, Proenza Schouler and Khaite. Laura Antonia Jordan reports on everything you need to know

The Independent UK

Maxine Hong Kingston, bell hooks among those honored by Ishmael Reed's Before Columbus Foundation

Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors honored this year by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates multicultural literature

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