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Late-night hosts discuss Trump’s chaotic first 100 days in office, his low approval ratings and Canada’s election resultsLate-night hosts reacted to Donald Trump reaching ...
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History and autobiography are brilliantly intertwined as the Booker-winning author explores the choices and chance connections that shape our existenceAt the start of this boldly experimental memoir, the Booker prize-winning author Richard Flanagan visits the site of a Ja...
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The Next Big Story competition, run by writing school The Novelry, is encouraging entries from would-be authors ‘historically overlooked by the publishing industry’ A new competition is offering £75,000 to an aspiring writer based on just three pages of their novel....
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New work says novelist, who was a censor during second world war, may been employed to look for coded messagesIt is an irony that she herself would have revelled in: Barbara Pym, the author who punctured the social strictures of 20th-century Britain, worked as a censor du...
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This fantasia on the life of Lambert Simnel, who finds himself a claimant to the English throne, is a romp through late-medieval identity and historical uncertaintyOne day in 1484, strange men arrive at the Oxfordshire farm where 10-year-old John Collan lives. They’ve com...
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Videos will share author’s tips on everything from story structure and plot twists to the art of suspenseAspiring crime writers now have the chance to be taught by “Agatha Christie”, thanks to a course of online video lessons by BBC Maestro.The videos “...
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Development may be indication China is softening on beginning negotiations over American 145% tariffsUS poli...
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President acknowledged his tariff war with China could lead to a toy shortage and costlier productsDonald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States, saying American kids might “have two dolls instead ...
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Pittsburgh residents, workers and business owners react to the increasingly fraught trading reality now upending supply chains and hitting prices“In a lot of ways it feels like Covid 2.0. So many things are getting disrupted so quickly.” Like so many businesses across Don...
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The deal with Javier Milei shows how America-first dealmaking is bending global finance to serve authoritarian and extractive endsIt is famed for hard-nosed bargaining with crisis-hit countries, so why did the International Monetary Fund throw a $20bn lifeline to the seri...