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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
A girl with super strength; anarchic doughnuts on a mission to rule the world; boys in the Blitz; an Igbo YA fantasy and moreThe Bear-Shaped Hole by John Dou...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The author and activist, who was subject to a fatwa in 2000, has won the prestigious prize for translated fiction for her short stories about the lives of Muslim women. She and her translator Deepa Bhasthi explain how Heart Lamp’s themes ‘are universal’• ...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The Enola Holmes actor shares a poem in memory of her mother. The film is part of a series to mark Celebration Day 2025 – a new annual moment, held on the last bank holiday Monday of May, to honour and celebrate those who have shaped our lives but are no longer with us. Directed by Oliver P...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The critic turned author’s witty, eccentric novel follows a Londoner reading Susan Sontag and looking for loveEarly on in Leo Robson’s debut novel, the narrator, a likable, aimless, rather detached young Londoner named Johnny Voghel, reads “a book of Susan Sontag essays a...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The author and podcaster on taking inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, welling up to Charles Dickens, and the enduring appeal of Jane AustenMy earliest reading memoryAt a secondhand book sale at school, a kind teac...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The novelist’s meditation on grief, memory and radical acceptance contains both horror and comfortIn this quietly devastating account of life after the death by suicide of both of her sons, Yiyun Li refuses to use “mourning” or “grieving” because they cannot adeq...
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LA Times » 4 weeks ago
In 'Original Sin,' Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson argue that there was a conspiracy to conceal President Biden's cognitive decline from the media, public and top Democrats....
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist themA recent piece of research commissioned by Channel 4 suggested that more than h...
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The Guardian » 4 weeks ago
The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie in 2022 has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for an attack that also wounded a second man, a district attorney has said. Hadi Matar was sentenced in a western New York courtroom, where a jury found him guilty ea...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
A team of writers complete the vital book that Guardian reporter Dom Phillips was working on at the time of his murderOn page 165 of How to Save the Amazon, a black-and-white photo interrupts the text. Two wooden crucifixes stand in a freshly hacked clearing, lashed to ta...
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