The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future ChinaThe sea takes many forms in fiction. It was an adventure playground in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and a rowdy neighbour in Daphne du Maurie...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
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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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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 » 4 weeks ago
As her memoir of losing her sons is published, the author talks about radical acceptance and how writing fiction helped her to prepare for tragedyAs the novelist Yiyun Li often observes, there is no good way to state the facts of her life and yet they are inescap...
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LA Times » 4 weeks ago
Bruce Handy's new book, 'Hollywood High,' is an incisive history of not just teen movies, but teenagers themselves. ...
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The Guardian » 4 weeks ago
Never Flinch by Stephen King; The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex; Heartwood by Amity Gaige; The Mourning Necklace by Kate Foster; The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The actor reads a poem in memory of Derek Jarman, who was the first director to cast him in a film - as Wilfred Owen in War Requiem. 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 wh...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Marlon James, Ian McEwan and Sheryl Lee Ralph lit up the Jamaican book event, celebrating the small island’s gargantuan cultural footprint with readings, discussions and DJs“Do I look like a rebel?” Booker prize winner Marlon James jokingly asks the crowd moments after wa...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize for l...
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