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13:52 When Nazis Enter Your Dreams

A newly reissued book documents the dreams of Germans living under Hitler, charting totalitarianism’s power over the subconscious.

13:18 How the anti-abortion movement embraced fringe ‘abolitionists’ and became more punitive

A movement that believes abortion should be treated as homicide has grown alongside a Republican penchant for punishment

13:00 The week’s bestselling books, April 27

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 27, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

12:26 Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – why you quit your job to make the world a better place

A bracingly hopeful call for high-flyers to ditch corporate drudgery in favour of something far more ambitious

12:26 Gillian Anderson announces ‘even more daring’ follow-up to bestselling book of sexual fantasies

Sex Education star calls on women to send in their anonymous submissions for a second volume of her 2024 title Want

12:21 Happy birthday Shakespeare! Our favorite sayings, and some that missed the mark

Though he was born centuries ago, we're still watching his plays and studying his works. And his words continue to resonate today.

11:41 Pudong Library's new AI librarians debut, creating a new scene of national reading

Pudong Library's new AI librarians debut, creating a new scene of national reading

11:22 Attacker who stabbed Salman Rushdie to be sentenced for attempted murder

Hadi Matar was convicted over 2022 attack in western New York that left author partially blinded

11:21 An epic novel about the American Southwest that deserves to be read

Michael Seeger reflects on the 40th anniversary of author Larry McMurty's famous novel, 'Lonesome Dove.'

10:09 Luminous by Silvia Park review – a major new voice in SF

From humans with robotic body parts to robots with human emotions, a vibrant debut set in a unified Korea examines what it means to be a person

09:25 Book Day: Why is it celebrated every April 23

The World Book Festivity is celebrated today, Wednesday, worldwide, although it is especially important in Catalonia. Every April 23 since UNESCO ...

08:11 Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling

Philadelphia’s Speling Reform Asoshiashun wasn’t the only group to demand a simpler way of putting things in print

07:14 Ben Affleck’s ‘logic-free’ Hollywood return

If Ben Affleck’s unexpected sequel The Accountant 2 and the ultra-realistic Warfare get pulses racing, then the charming The Penguin Lessons it the perfect antidote

19:49 Seven Books About How the Earth Is Changing Right Now

These visceral reported accounts will help readers better understand the new ecological status quo.

22/04 8 Earth Day reads for people wanting to make a positive impact

‘Humbling and hopeful’ in different ways, these timely reads help people of all ages navigate the climate and ecological crises.

22/04 Heartstopper to end with feature film finale

Alice Oseman’s hit series starring Kit Connor and Joe Locke will end with a story based on the as-yet-unpublished sixth book, with the pair facing a long-distance relationship

22/04 Make Russia Medieval Again! How Putin is seeking to remold society, with a little help from Ivan the Terrible

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ‘political neomedievalism’ by the Kremlin.

22/04 ‘Funny, sexy and a bit weird’: inside the new wave of literary parties

Fancy getting poetry performances and DJ sets all in one place? A growing number of event organisers across the UK are putting their own spins on literature readings – and there are queues out the door

22/04 I Found an Entire Book That Was Written About … Me. It Only Got Weirder From There.

I shelled out $7.99 to read what a mindless bot had cribbed about my life.

22/04 5 Benefits of Reading Books Before Sleeping

Research shows that people who read before sleep generally have better sleep quality.

22/04 Wellwater by Karen Solie – landscapes in distress captured with raw candour

In this blazingly honest collection, the Canadian poet catalogues humanity’s destructive impact on the natural world

22/04 The Ugly Stepsister review – body-horror take on Cinderella is ingenious reworking of fairy tale

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt upends audience expectations in a feature debut that’s hyper-aware of the origin story’s sexual and patriarchal imagery

22/04 Review: Joan Didion's 'Notes to John' may be a gift. And yet, I wish her the privacy she relished

The question haunting Joan Didion's 'Notes to John' is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited reflections (including parental doubts) to be shared with readers.

22/04 Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp review – a TikTok Stepford Wives for the Pornhub era

This startling debut follows a young woman on a surreal and bluntly graphic quest to be the perfect girlfriend

21/04 Baby boomers: if Sue Storm is pregnant then what’s going to happen in the Fantastic Four’s first outing?

That Vanessa Kirby’s character might be having a baby raises mind-bending questions about the trajectory of Matt Shakman’s instalment of the new Marvel franchise

21/04 'The Human Scale': Israel-based FBI mystery is a page-turner - review

The Human Scale is a superb contemporary political thriller that goes well beyond simply keeping the reader enthralled with a succession of unexpected developments, page after page.

21/04 Joan Didion’s Diaries Reveal Her Motherhood Struggles—and, Maybe, the Hidden Danger in Her Family

The “Notes to John” aren’t really for John Gregory Dunne—but they do reveal him, if you read carefully.

21/04 Joan Didion Wouldn’t Have Wanted This

The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.

21/04 Poem of the week: The old pond full of flags and fenced around … by John Clare

A closely observed country scene teems with the vitality of early summer

21/04 Matthew Specktor on Hollywood's 'fascist turn' toward blockbusters: 'It erodes the soul of the city'

Matthew Specktor says the decline of the movie industry is hurting L.A.: "This used to be a city to dream of and I don't think it really is that anymore."

21/04 Review: 'Medicine River' reckons with the legacy of Indian boarding schools — through a daughter's eyes

In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the trauma they inflicted on her own family.

21/04 Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking read

21/04 Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something

An altruistic companion to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks aims to encourage anyone with a conscience to stop being a spectator

21/04 The authors taking on Mark Zuckerberg – podcast

Why do authors see Meta’s AI model as a threat to their livelihoods? Ella Creamer reports

20/04 The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight

The strange stories of the agents who lived apparently normal lives in the west as part of Soviet espionage programmes make compelling reading

20/04 ‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

Laurie Lee and Robert Graves among ‘English-speaking Quixotes’ in new book celebrating literary love for all things Spanish

20/04 A ‘Black Snape’ in the new Harry Potter seems designed to cause controversy – but it could work | Jason Okundaye

Ignore the fuss: Paapa Essiedu is a brilliant actor who can bring his own depth and style to enrich the iconic character, says Jason Okundaye, an assistant newsletter editor and writer at the Guardian

20/04 How to Get Out of Your Own Way When Writing

Author Maggie Smith discusses the “good trouble” of working on a piece until it’s truly finished and her new creativity advice book, Dear Writer.

20/04 Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards review – night owls of all feathers

This immersive exploration of how we experience the nocturnal world is beautifully illuminating

20/04 Go-to author on White House reverses take on Biden and slams former president

Chris Whipple’s third book, Uncharted, hits Biden and aides like a bludgeon, with key sources who speak on the record

20/04 1994

A poem

20/04 Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great

The dizzy highs and bitter lows of the late writer’s life are laid bare in Sinéad O’Shea’s moving documentary

20/04 Sister Europe by Nell Zink review – ramshackle wanderers in Berlin

Zink’s seventh novel, about a night of conversation and adventure, is full of wit and marvellous writing, but ultimately trails off

20/04 Could I become a Christian in a year?

After two friends unexpectedly converted, Lamorna Ash discovered a new generation of young people turning to faith. As she investigated the phenomenon, one of her first steps was to spend a week on a working retreat on Iona. And then something strange happened…

20/04 Stephen Mangan: ‘With three people in a bed, who goes in the middle?’

The Split actor and children’s author on throuples, using his sons as a focus group, and running the London marathon

20/04 Is it true that babies are often read by books so it's easier to learn to read? This is a doctor's explanation

Often reading books for babies can make them easier to learn to read, Mother. So, what is the doctor's explanation like? Check here, yes.

20/04 In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review

Long-buried truths leave siblings reeling when their father dies; a fascinating reclamation of Homer’s forgotten women; and still waters run deep in a centuries-spanning novel

20/04 The America I loved is gone

It was a nation of dreams, built for the screen. Then it shattered

20/04 The North Road by Rob Cowen review – the poetry and pain of Britain’s backbone

A beautifully written study of our longest numbered route, the A1, is full of rich asides and haunting explorations, conjuring the visual pleasure of a road movie

20/04 Flex appeal: how our muscles makes us human

From karate as a kid to swimming as an adult, Bonnie Tsui has always relished an active life. But when she started investigating muscles, she found this most durable tissue encapsulates who we are

20/04 ‘They were poor’: Roosters coach fumes after dirty act goes undetected

Roosters coach Trent Robinson was fuming at the referees over a number of calls after Mitch Kenny was not punished for a hip drop tackle that caused a MCL injury to Nat Butcher.

19/04 Novelist Kiley Reid: ‘Consumption cannot fix racism’

The American author on the follow-up to her bestselling debut Such a Fun Age, why she loves characters you want to shake, and reading 160 novels for the Booker prize

19/04 On my radar: Romola Garai’s cultural highlights

The actor on her love of sad songs, history podcasts and cemeteries with mysterious gravestones

19/04 Climatologist Friederike Otto: ‘The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster’

The German scientist on her new book arguing that inequality, wealth and sexism are making the climate crisis worse – and what we need to do about it

19/04 Book Review: Al-Asbab Wa Al-Alamat, the Most Influential Book in the Classical Medicine Era

Documentation and Editing Prib for the Book of Causes and Symptoms by Najib Ad-Din Samarqandi is one of the most influential medical works of ...

19/04 A book lover's guide to the Festival of Books

From Amanda Gorman to Stacey Abrams, the L.A. Times Festival of Books promises to be the greatest gathering of book lovers this year. Ahead of the fest, we look at the buzziest talks and author appearances.

19/04 The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’

Mary Annette Pember’s expansive and shocking book Medicine River looks at the many ways that the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native families

19/04 ‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata

The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’

19/04 ‘Hitler’s hatred of the scientist had intensified. There was a price on his head’: the tragic story of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin

After the famous physicist fled Germany in 1933, his cousin Robert moved his family to Italy, where they thought they had found safety. Then, the day before liberation, Nazis smashed down their front door …

19/04 ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativity

19/04 The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch

The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamics

18/04 JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner

Doyenne of children’s literature has regularly utilised social media in support of women-only spaces

18/04 'The Art of the Music Critic': Music through a former ‘Jerusalem Post’ critic's eyes - review

The Art of the Music Critic is an incisive and illuminating compendium of an expansive stretch of our musical timeline, presented in an invitingly user-friendly form.

18/04 'Songs for the Brokenhearted': A mosaic of Israeli society - review

This cast of characters and their stories offer an authentic mosaic of the people who make up Israeli society, portraying the tensions, the long history, and the unresolved traumas.

18/04 The truth about stress: from the benefits of the ‘good kind’ to the exercise that only makes it worse

The authors of a new book explain why understanding the science of stress can help us manage it better

18/04 You Might Be Afraid for Someone Like Me to Parent a Newborn. I Was More Ready Than You Know.

The baby wanted to be held constantly. That was fine by me.

18/04 ‘A convenyent foode’?: university republishes 450-year-old book on cheese

The new transcription of pamphlet contains some advice with contemporary resonance

18/04 Records tumble in Storm horror show

Melbourne was in cruise control at Suncorp Stadium on Friday night when Ryan Papenhuyzen crossed for its third try in the 20th minute to make it 16-2.

18/04 The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by Veronika Dapunt

18/04 ‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books

New exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, looks at the unsung art that exists on the pages that bookend much-loved kids books

18/04 Review: 'Waiting for Godot' — or some sort of sign — in Lydia Millet's latest short stories

In 'Atavists,' Lydia Millet's latest collection of short stories, Southern California denizens grapple with an endangered globe and base social media impulses.

18/04 Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it

17/04 The Guardian view on the meaning of life: Easter and the ultimate question | Editorial

Editorial: From Verdi to Douglas Adams, artists and writers have wrestled with why we are here. The Christian festival gives us pause to reflect

17/04 A Novel That Takes Mundane Work Seriously

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

17/04 An entire city carried 9,100 hand-in-hand books

Moving 'chain' of residents for a local bookstore

17/04 Political Erotica Was Once an Effective Form of Protest. Now It’s Back, and Weirder Than Ever.

Political erotica was once an effective form of resistance. Now it’s coming back—and it’s weirder than ever.

17/04 Beat brain rot: clear your mind with 55 screen-free activities, from birdwatching to colouring books

Feel like screen time is sapping your concentration? Take a break from the digital world this Easter with these mindful suggestions

17/04 The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

The philanthropist offers sensible advice about moving on and ditching perfectionism, but you get the impression she is struggling to take it herself

17/04 Trump Has Millions of Americans Despairing. One Surprise Just Gave Me Hope.

This month’s protests were way bigger than I expected. Will they do anything?

17/04 Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody

The privileged world of Bloomsbury group is vividly evoked in this novel of a life shaped by devastating loss

17/04 Review: Son of an agent, he became a film exec. But the movies weren't the same

Matthew Specktor grew up around celebrities during an era of bold filmmaking — only to see safe franchises dominate and studio movies lose their intimate strangeness

17/04 The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick

From frogs to ferrets, an eye-opening account of the ways we affect the health of other species – and vice versa

17/04 ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront

16/04 Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librarians | Alison Hicks

UK school librarians are also coming under pressure to remove books from their shelves, says Alison Hicks, associate professor in library and information studies at UCL

16/04 A new chapter for publishing? Book subscription services launch their own titles

The book-posting operations have had a huge market impact, but will publishing their own titles cost them their serendipitous magic?

16/04 Ernest Cole: the South African photographer at the centre of a powerful and heartbreaking film

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Raoul Peck is a meditative film that draws on Cole’s own notebooks and letters in a bold attempt to have him tell his own story.

16/04 The week’s bestselling books, April 20

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 20, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

16/04 Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh review – teenage dreams

The tale of a 17-year-old Irish boy’s painful summer of romance and uncertain friendship captures the tenderness and menace of young men

16/04 Rare letter offers glimpse into Bram Stoker’s early thoughts on Dracula

‘Lord forgive me. I am quite shameless’, author playfully wrote in note weeks after horror novel published in 1897

16/04 We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – reimagining Black Britain

A deft, documentary-like portrait of 70s and 80s Black British culture outside London

16/04 The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian Argentina

16/04 Audition by Katie Kitamura review – a literary performance of true uncanniness

An actor’s story becomes a thrillingly radical deconstruction of family relationships and the social roles we play

16/04 Subway Anzac biscuit back on menus for the first time in 17 years

Subway once binned the Anzac biscuit over cost — now it’s back and baked by the book, with proceeds going to Aussie veterans, and food influencers giving it a salty-sweet once-over.

15/04 The Political Novelist Who Never Stood Still

Mario Vargas Llosa, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you had to admire.

15/04 Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display

The book about the trial of William Corder, publicly executed and dissected after being convicted of murdering his lover, is bound using his skin

15/04 Rainbow vases, vintage soap dishes and crystal bike bells: 15 colourful pick-me-ups to elevate your everyday

Seek out joy in a turbulent world with these carefully chosen treats (they make great gifts, too)

15/04 Saint-Exupéry's sketches: "The Little Prince" auction at Sotheby’s

Original sketches from Saint-Exupéry are auctioned in Paris. The auction at Sotheby’s could bring in up to 400,000 euros.

15/04 Cesare, "the biggest" who made the mistake of forgiven the enemies

Literary character par excellence, with his inheritance he is still the protagonist of politics

15/04 ‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah

On what would have been the late dub poet’s 67th birthday, his musical collaborators remember his warmth, invigorating words and reflections on the state of the world

15/04 The remains of Mario Vargas Llosa are incinerated and delivered to their three children in an intimate ceremony

The remains of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa were incinerated on Monday in an intimate ceremony, as asked by the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, in the center ...

15/04 Crime and thrillers of the month – review

A couple’s struggle to survive a serial killer, a prank that goes terribly wrong – and the hunt for an old friend who went missing in the woods

15/04 Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

Journalist Joel Budd travels around Britain demolishing Brexit myths in a nuanced study of a social group too often reduced to a cartoon by politicians

15/04 The power of telling the whole story: Honoring truth and complexity - opinion

To make space for a truth that isn’t ours. And to carry it with the same weight we ask for our own.

14/04 ‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish-language fiction

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictions

14/04 Educational Bookshop and the cultural institutions of east Jerusalem

Notwithstanding the current toxic political climate, some arguably naïve and ever-hopeful Jerusalemites haven’t lost faith in the dream of coexistence.

14/04 Royal expert’s scathing six-word verdict on Prince Harry ‘Spare sequel’

Palace officials are reportedly fearing a new memoir from the Duke of Susex.

14/04 These are the 10 most Instagrammable bookstores in the world, according to a new study

From the bookstore that inspired J.K. Rowling’s vision of Hogwarts to one featuring a magical book portal, these are the most Instagrammable bookstores around the world. View on euronews

14/04 STEM and the Humanities Have Been at War for Years. We’re Finally Seeing How Silly That Was.

In the Trump era, both "sides" of the university are at risk.

14/04 HBO reveals first part of Harry Potter TV cast, including Dumbledore and Hagrid

John Lithgow confirmed in Dumbledore role, with Paapa Essiedu playing Severus Snape and Nick Frost as Hagrid

14/04 How R. Crumb Tapped Into America’s Screwy Id

The illustrator was called a sicko, a misogynist, a racist. But he found something the culture was craving.

14/04 The Rock to co-author true crime book about Hawaii mob boss to be adapted by Martin Scorsese

Dwayne Johnson is working with investigative journalist Nick Bilton on the project, with a film in the pipeline starring Emily Blunt and Leonardo DiCaprio

14/04 The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?

Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to Thiel

14/04 Poem of the week: Death sets a Thing significant … by Emily Dickinson

The traces of a lost friend are keenly felt in the material things they once touched

14/04 The one change that worked: I conquered my fear of public speaking – with just one night of pure panic

When I agreed to plug my book at a literary festival, I was expecting some kind of low-key Q&A. Imagine my terror when I discovered I would have to monologue for almost an hour

14/04 How a reading club made Reese Witherspoon into an entertainment tycoon

Her passion for written fiction led her to create a millionaire business that mixes editorial curatorship with women -centered audiovisual production

14/04 Audition by Katie Kitamura review – an evasive experiment

This tricksy novel from the author of A Separation takes its cue from Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy – but what starts as intrigue soon starts to feel like time-wasting

14/04 From 'Infinite Jest' to Oprah's Book Club, 1996 changed the (literary) world

The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ways that remain with us nearly three decades on.

14/04 I saw the rise and decline of YA literature from the inside. Here's what it was like

Author Charlie Jane Anders reflects on reading and writing young adult literature in an era of explosive popularity that may now be coming to an end.

14/04 The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

14/04 Commentary: Her father drugged and facilitated her mother Gisèle Pelicot's rape by dozens. Caroline Darian recounts how she survived

When Caroline Darian learned what her father Dominique Pelicot had done, to her and her mother, one part of her life ended. In her first memoir, she describes her trauma and her determination to fight.

14/04 How Black poets built the 'centrifugal force' in modern American literature

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one of the most influential literary organizations in the U.S.

14/04 Review: When the fact-checker in question is not exactly a reliable narrator

Set in the recent past, Austin Kelley's debut novel centers on a magazine underling who becomes entranced with a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

14/04 The 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

14/04 The best books of the last 30 years: Honorable mentions

In our survey about the best books since 1996, a number of authors split the vote — among their own titles. Here are 10 prolific pens that deserved an honorable mention.

14/04 Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes

The journalist’s second book offers positivity in the face of the obstacles confronting disabled girls and women

14/04 Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles

14/04 Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women by Sofi Oksanen – review

This harrowing study of the Russian leader’s weaponising of sexual violence argues that misogyny goes hand in hand with imperialism

14/04 Read the heartbreaking letters from lost boys of huge American scandal

A new book reveals publicly for the first time the letters that expose the heartbreaking reality: that no amount of money will ever replace what these men - many now in their 80s and 90s - have lost.

14/04 Mario Vargas Llosa: And if everything is journalism

Why not say it like this: Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died tonight at age 89, was a writer convinced that to fully inhabit the time that has touched you in ...

14/04 Ta-Nehisi Coates on why stories matter in the age of Trump – podcast

The award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates on why US liberals have misunderstood the role culture plays in shaping politics

14/04 Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89

Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in Peru

13/04 Read up to 50 books a year with these four Bill Gates tricks

Microsoft's co -founder since childhood has been motivated by reading, being a key aspect that allowed him to achieve personal and professional success

13/04 Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter review – a headlong rush through the turbulent Aids era

Porter’s urgent prose propels the reader into the gay scene of the 1980s and early 90s as his protagonist’s life is torn apart by the HIV crisis

13/04 ‘I’d love Keanu to read it’: Ione Skye on bisexuality, infidelity and her wild tell-all memoir

The actor’s aptly named memoir, Say Everything, has been praised as raw, revealing, disarming and horny

13/04 Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance

In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hope

13/04 Mad House: new book exposes Capitol Hill’s absurdity and dysfunction

Reporters Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater shine a jaundiced spotlight on the foibles and foolishness of the US political class

13/04 New books chart Biden’s downfall – and the picture is damning for Democrats

Books detail president increasingly unfit to take on Trump, and party infighting that doomed Kamala Harris’s chances

13/04 Journalist Ahmed Alnaouq: ‘It’s our duty to make Gaza’s stories immortal’

The Gaza-born, UK-based journalist, who lost 21 family members in an Israeli airstrike on his homeland, has taken pieces from an online platform he co-created for young Palestinians and collated them in a new book

13/04 ‘Gaza, it breaks my heart to see you in this state’: three stories from young Palestinian writers

Authors from the We Are Not Numbers project on their dreams of becoming architects or artists, and a report on how a young woman found fulfilment in fast food

13/04 A mass shooter slaughtered her husband at a bank. What she thinks about two years later

After losing her husband in the Old National Bank mass shooting, Maryanne Elliott is sharing her grief journey to help other people grieve better.

13/04 Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman review – the radical lord of light entertainent

This glorious biography of the whimsical, elusive French composer celebrates the depths of his seemingly sunny music and the impact he had on other forms

13/04 I've lived alone for 103 years and experienced many breakups, and I can understand. "Even if you die, it's not over. Our hearts will remember properly" [2025 Editorial Department Selection]

We're bringing you a book that you'd like to read again from an article that received a huge response on Fujinkoron.jp in the first half of 2024 (January to June). (First release date: April 26, 2024) **** Grandma Tetsuyo is 103 years old, who was a hot topic for her serialization in the Chugoku Shimbun as a model for the era of 100 years of life. The sight of people enjoying a healthy, self-spiri

12/04 Kaliane Bradley: ‘I dreaded the book going to people I know’

The author of bestseller The Ministry of Time on how lockdown telly, Terry Pratchett and her Cambodian heritage shaped her Arctic time travel tale

12/04 'Jewish & Israel Trivia': The perfect trivia challenge for the Passover Seder - review

If you haven’t picked up a copy before the Seder, I strongly suggest you grab one as soon as you can. This trivia booklet is bound to sell like hotcakes. 

12/04 I'm a Satanologist. Here's what the devil really looks like

There are a lot of myths out there about the devil - but nearly everything we think we know about him is wrong. What does he look like? Why doesn't he have a bellybutton? And what does 666 really mean?

12/04 The Determined Spy: Frank Wisner, the CIA and a covert career cut short

New biography tells story of operative who directed coups in Iran and Guatemala and grappled with mental illness

12/04 Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94

Prolific Canadian director also made one of the country’s first internationally successful films, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss

12/04 Polish authors rally against publishing houses over low royalty fees

A best-selling Polish author's lawsuit against her publishing house has sparked a bitter battle over royalties with writers' questioning what the outcome could spell for their future earnings.

12/04 Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment

With new translations, a film starring Ralph Fiennes and a Christopher Nolan blockbuster on the way, Homer’s saga about a soldier’s return from battle speaks to our times in unexpected ways

12/04 Novelist Katie Kitamura: ‘As Trump tries to take away everything I love, it’s never been clearer that writing matters’

The Japanese-American author of unsettling new novel Audition talks about why fiction isn’t frivolous, family life with fellow writer Hari Kunzru, and how US authors are facing a critical moment

12/04 Name by Constance Debré review – a demolition of bourgeois life

The French author takes aim at marriage, childhood and her illustrious family name in the finale of a landmark autofictional trilogy

12/04 Olivia Colman to star in Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice written by Dolly Alderton

Latest adaptation of Jane Austen classic will include Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden as Elizabeth and Mr Darcy

12/04 How Nvidia became the driving force behind the AI revolution

Two books chart the rise of the chipmaker via its ‘benevolent dictator’ Jensen Huang and an early gamble on deep learning

12/04 'It Takes Chutzpah': Jewish senator's memoir hopes to raise next generation of activists - review

It Takes Chutzpah is crisply and clearly written, intended to raise a new generation of can-do activists with the ability to build bridges and widen constituencies in order to achieve their goals.

11/04 An AI creates a philosophy book and becomes editorial success

Andrea Colamedici, co -author of the book, faces various controversies for not having informed about the use of this technology in the creation of the work

11/04 ‘You must read my diaries’: unlocking the private life of Edna O’Brien

Towards the end of her life, the groundbreaking Irish novelist granted film-maker Sinéad O’Shea access to her most personal writing. What she revealed was shocking and inspiring

11/04 Watch out Gout: Aussie’s stunning 100m sprint

Watch out, Gout Gout.

11/04 Knife by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – 27 seconds that changed everything

The author recalls the attack that almost killed him in an honest, terrifying and life-affirming memoir

11/04 The best science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway; Some Body Like Me by Lucy Lapinska; City of All Seasons by Oliver K Langmead & Aliya Whiteley; Rose/House by Arkady Martine; The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney

11/04 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review – Pinochet and the Nazis

A human rights lawyer skilfully gathers the threads that link the former Chilean dictator to a fugitive SS officer

11/04 Review: ‘Crumb’ does not shy away from the cartoonist's faults — just as he wanted

Robert Crumb, the libidinous underground comix pioneer, had one condition before he agreed to participated in Dan Nadel's biography: that the author look closely at his compulsions.

11/04 Review: Meghan Daum prided herself on candor. Then the invites stopped coming

Meghan Daum writes about being "the toast of the town," only to see invites evaporate as her views fell out of step with social arbiters. But our critic suggests other issues could be at play.

11/04 The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club by Sepideh Gholian review – like no recipe book you’ve ever read

A political prisoner lifts the lid on the hardships and fantasies of life in Iran’s most notorious jail

11/04 What do you know when you're 103 years old and have lived a long life? How to enjoy "single time" to make you feel good [2025 Editorial Department Selection]

We're bringing you a book that you'd like to read again from an article that received a huge response on Fujinkoron.jp in the first half of 2024 (January to June). (First release date: April 25, 2024) ***** Grandma Tetsuyo is 103 years old, who was a hot topic for her serialization in the Chugoku Shimbun as a model for the era of 100 years of life. The sight of people enjoying a healthy, self-spir

10/04 Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts

The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

10/04 Can We Love the Internet and Hate Its Owners?

Vauhini Vara’s new memoir critiques the web in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry.

10/04 Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2025 Book Prize - The Moscow Times

Pushkin House has announced the short list for this year’s Book Prize.

10/04 St. Petersburg Prosecutors Order Independent Bookstore to Remove LGBTQ+ Books - The Moscow Times

Law enforcement authorities in St.

10/04 Babe review – tale of the talking sheep-pig a charming relic of its time

A startling novelty 30 years ago, the film’s now antique effects and strange anti-Orwell farmyard tale feel dated, but is still a quaintly comfortable place to visit

10/04 Surprise as sealskin is discovered to be cover material of ‘hairy’ medieval books

The findings from volumes kept in a Cistercian monastery in France shed new light on a robust medieval trade network that went well beyond local sourcing

10/04 Gerry Adams considers suing Meta over alleged use of his books to train AI

Former Sinn Féin president says Facebook owner included at least seven of his books in trawl of copyright material

10/04 From the jazz age to the Trump age: The Great Gatsby at 100

Newly minted millionaires, corruption, nostalgia ... Fitzgerald’s novel has never felt more relevant. Jane Crowther explores its resonance in popular culture from Taylor Swift songs to her own gender-flipped retelling

10/04 ‘I don’t want migrants to give up hope’: why Nicola Kelly ‘betrayed’ her ex-colleagues at the Home Office

Kelly has been called a traitor for leaving her government job to write about immigration. But, she says, something has to be done about the chaos and injustice

10/04 Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford review – wild trouble in a child’s world

An unsettlingly funny debut explores memories of a perilous birthday party, with dark echoes of Grimms’ fairytales and gothic fiction

10/04 Proto by Laura Spinney review – how Indo-European languages went global

The fascinating story of the ancient words that survive in the mouths of billions of speakers today

10/04 Eden’s Shore by Oisín Fagan review – hilarious, beautiful and very violent

A hapless young idealist sets sail for utopia, in this wild epic of colonial chaos in the late 18th-century Americas

10/04 Sex, patriotism and Donald Trump cologne: the US adverts that explain the 00s

The final book in Jim Heimann’s survey of a century of US advertising takes us to a decade where Apple sold a new way of living and mermaids hawked Evian. It’s a ‘swan song’, he says – for his series but also the industry as a whole

10/04 The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation

Uberto Pasolini’s raw and urgent drama, from a draft by Edward Bond, sees a traumatised Odysseus face the shameful aftermath of war

09/04 Patti Smith announces a new memoir 'Bread of Angels'

The release date of Patti Smith's new memoir is relevant and deeply personal... The singer-songwriter-writer will embark on the European leg of her tour celebrating the 50-year anniversary of her debut album, 'Horses'.

09/04 Reading retreats led by bibliophiles and best-selling authors are the latest luxury travel trend

You may feel like your coworkers are illiterate, but the reality is that Americans are reading more, not less. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Americans spent 22.9% more money on r…

09/04 AI doesn’t care about authors, but Meta should | Letters

Letters: Timothy X Atack thinks AI models are imitation engines – and they do not celebrate their sources, they conceal them. Abie Longstaff says Meta has stolen far more books than any author could read

09/04 Thomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decade

The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress

09/04 Thomas Pynchon has a new novel coming this fall. It's his first in 12 years

One month shy of his 88th birthday, Thomas Pynchon is set to publish his first book in 12 years. “Shadow Ticket” is scheduled for Oct. 7.

09/04 Inside Russia’s ‘Micro-Politics’: Ethnographer Jeremy Morris on the Quiet Resilience of Daily Life - The Moscow Times

For over 25 years, British ethnographer Jeremy Morris has been traveling to the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow.

09/04 Patti Smith to publish ‘intimate’ new memoir, Bread of Angels

Published in November, it will cover everything from Smith’s childhood to her rise as a punk rock star and later retreat from public life

09/04 Bird School by Adam Nicolson review – close encounters of a feathery kind

This account of living among birds in a comfortable garden hide is fascinating but also melancholy as the author witnesses how few remain

09/04 Repaired Paddington Bear statue unveiled in Newbury after vandalism

People cheer statue’s return in Berkshire town, while two RAF engineers have been sentenced for offence

09/04 The Comic-Book Artist Who Mastered Space and Time

Jules Feiffer, who died in January, taught me many things, but one comic strip mattered most of all.

09/04 Artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister to go on show in house where siblings lived

Exhibition of rarely seen paintings by Cassandra Austen is part of events marking 250th anniversary of author’s birth

09/04 The week’s bestselling books, April 13

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 13, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

09/04 The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – the power of kindness

Love and loss combine in this tender tale of how a mourning Caribbean mother cares for others

09/04 The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry

The horrifying truth behind the practices of psychiatrist William Sargant, one of Britain’s most influential mental health practitioners

09/04 Poetry in motion: walking the new Wordsworth Way in the Lake District

The route follows in the Romantic poet’s footsteps, traces his life and celebrates the landscapes that inspired so much of his work

09/04 ‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women

Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs to be done

08/04 The rise of the middle-class hoarder – and how to know if you’re one of them

The rise of the middle-class hoarder – and how to know if you’re one of them - LET’S UNPACK THAT: From buying more books when you already have shelves of unread novels to ordering clothing ‘hauls’ online when the wardrobe is full to bursting, overconsumption affects more of us than ever before. But how much is too much stuff? Helen Coffey asks the experts how we can declutter our lives

08/04 The Amateur review – Rami Malek takes action-hero baby steps as CIA analyst out for revenge

Malek gives an eccentric performance as a nerdy agent who wants his superior Laurence Fishburne to retrain him as an assassin

08/04 Majority of attempts to ban books in US come from organised groups not parents

Last year 72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups and government entities; with just 16% of ban attempts made by parents

08/04 Short-but-punchy books dominate International Booker Prize shortlist

First-time nominee female writers dominate the International Booker Prize shortlist 2025.

08/04 ‘Mind-expanding books’: International Booker prize shortlist announced

From Muslim Indian women’s lives to a Danish time looper, all six contenders for the £50,000 prize are from independent presses, as translator Sophie Hughes earns an unprecedented third nomination

08/04 The Relentless Rise of Jensen Huang

The new tech titan built Nvidia into a nearly $3 trillion business by not thinking about how his computer chips would be used.

08/04 What are the 10 most Instagrammable bookstores in the world?

From the bookstore that inspired J.K. Rowling’s vision of Hogwarts to one featuring a magical book portal, these are the most Instagrammable bookstores around the world.

08/04 Allies at War by Tim Bouverie review – a revelatory study of second world war alliances

In focusing on the multilateral bonds that were forged to defeat Hitler, this entertaining account offers fresh disclosures about the course of the war

08/04 Tara Yoshiko, a 90-year-old living alone in a housing complex, is a tough one, and it's impossible to afford it. Her husband's workplace has gone bankrupt twice. The reason why I never bought a house even though I had savings

The YouTube channel Earth Grandma Channel, which she started with her grandson at the age of 85, introduces her living alone in an old housing complex, became popular, and her book was a huge hit, with a total of 180,000 copies sold. Even so, Tara Yoshiko says that her daily life will not change. He is 90 years old and despite his physical weakness, he lives a life of "not pushing too hard" and li

08/04 Geri Halliwell-Horner — a.k.a. Ginger Spice — brings girl power to a new generation with YA series

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner discusses her new book, 'Rosie Frost: Ice on Fire,' and teases how the trilogy will end.

08/04 Love and Fury: The Extraordinary Life, Death and Legacy of Joe Meek by Darryl W Bullock – review

This richly detailed and exhaustive biography of the maverick 60s British music producer reveals a sonic visionary whose brilliance concealed a tragically violent temper

08/04 The King of Kings review – Charles Dickens retelling of the Jesus story does a serviceable job

The famous author tells his son and their cat the story of Jesus in this mixed-bag family animation, voiced by an impressive cast

08/04 Oysters? Better the clams. And no aperitifs. The scientific advice of a true narrator

From "abacchio" to "soup", the food seen by a heretic author

07/04 Musk says he hopes for ‘zero tariffs’

Trump adviser and billionaire Elon Musk said he hopes the US and Europe can move towards a “zero-tariff situation” as stock markets continue to be rocked by the President’s heavy trade tariffs.

07/04 ‘15 mins of madness’ sees US markets soar

It’s been labelled by some as the 15 minutes “of madness” that sent US stock markets soaring upwards on Monday rather than plummeting as many expected.

07/04 ‘Flying is an act of surrender’: a new novel about a woman who wants to be ravished by an Airbus

Kate Folk on Sky Daddy, a book about sex, death and plane crashes that’s taking off in these turbulent times

07/04 Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come

Sketched in cinematic black and white, this illustrated interpretation of the late author’s postmodern detective novel is a ‘stone-cold masterpiece’

07/04 Blink-182 saved Mark Hoppus' life when he had cancer. His new book helped him heal

In his book 'Fahrenheit-182,' Blink 182's Mark Hoppus chronicles the devastating impact of his parents' divorce, falling in love with punk rock, surviving cancer and battles among the friends and bandmates.

07/04 Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne review – complicity, courage and cowardice examined in a slippery marvel

The Submarine author employs that novel’s warmth and wit in his investigation into whether his great-grandfather knowingly helped to make chemical weapons for the Nazis

07/04 Ice hockey icon Wayne Gretzky wiped from history as NHL record broken

Alex Ovechkin scored his 895th NHL career goal on Monday (AEST), etching his name into ice hockey history by finally passing the previous all-time record he shared with Wayne Gretzky.

06/04 Mining of authors’ work is nothing new – AI is just doing what creative humans do | Letter

Letters: Creativity has always ‘trained’ on the work of others, says Andrew Vincent

06/04 The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2025 – enter now!

The annual award for aspiring cartoonists – which now boasts its own evening event – offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners landing book and film deals

06/04 We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – the forgotten voices of black Britain

The author’s sharply intelligent history of how black British identity was forged beyond London in the cauldron of the Thatcherite 1970s and 80s is a necessary corrective

06/04 Fight by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes review – scathing account of Biden, Harris and their election loss

Book details how Biden’s circle was reluctant to step down, Harris’s handling of a listing ship and a lack of faith in both

06/04 Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis review – an Iraqi Jew’s celebration of an endangered culture

In this deeply personal but wryly funny memoir, the author examines her Middle Eastern ancestry and asks what it means to witness her community and their traditions fade from memory

06/04 Alex Wheatle obituary

Author of the Crongton novels whose stories of inner-city life give a realistic portrait of growing up in contemporary Britain

06/04 Forgotten fashions: rediscovered slides show off everyday flair from the Fifties and beyond

The latest book from artist Lee Shulman, who has created the world’s largest private collection of amateur colour transparencies, has an often startling sartorial focus

06/04 The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – a warm story of second starts

A bereaved woman forms new relationships in the author’s first novel in seven years, a tender and funny tale of forgiveness

06/04 Feeding the soul: Laurie Woolever on food, addiction – and working with Anthony Bourdain

Working alongside NY’s hottest chefs took its toll on Laurie Woolever, but in a new memoir she opens up about her battles with drinking, drugs – and losing her friend

06/04 The white working class is nothing like what politicians think – or claim – it is | Kenan Malik

A new book, Underdogs, demolishes the myth that it is homogeneous in its hostility to immigration

06/04 ‘We’d been through so much’: Jean Hannah Edelstein on breasts – and life without them

All her life Jean Hannah Edelstein had tried to feel comfortable with her breasts, battling unwelcome attention and breastfeeding woes. But then came cancer and a double mastectomy – and she realised she was losing something she loved

06/04 When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – all the fun of the Fair

In his memoir the former Vanity Fair editor and man-about-town recalls the golden age of glossy magazines, when sales were in the millions and ‘the budget had no ceiling’

06/04 Railway TT asked the passenger how many hours ago the book is the book? The person gave the correct answer, you too life

How to Book Current Ticket: How to book current tickets? This question often remains of people. The same question was given by TT through a video, in which he told that these tickets can book 4 hours before the construction, but can also book half an hour before the rail is ready.

06/04 Horror as planes dramatically fall from sky

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05/04 I went searching for the grandmother I never met. Under a tree where she once sat with Leonard Cohen, I broke | Gina Chick

When adoption laws changed in Australia, we discovered her name: Charmian Clift. I felt instant recognition. This explained everything

05/04 Novelist Oisín Fagan: ‘I was at the altar of literature and had its fire in me’

The Irish author on his new ‘violent seafaring epic’, his appetite for body horror and living his entire life book-first

05/04 On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights

The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your garden

05/04 Pack these books for Coachella: Your music festival reading lineup

From memoirs by rockers such as Kathleen Hanna to oral histories documenting Lollapalooza, these books will put you at the barricade for the biggest acts in music. Plus, we catch up with the Best Bookstore in Palm Springs.

05/04 ‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

When Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he talks to the Colombian novelist about literature and justice

05/04 Anna Grau: "Although I would not throw any book to the pool, I have mania to the divine comedy"

05/04 ‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?

Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi Jewish food of her ancestors. Unfortunately, he had other ideas …

05/04 ‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm

As Neige Sinno’s critically acclaimed memoir about being sexually abused by her stepfather is published in English, she reveals how writing her story has helped set her free

05/04 We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown review – you’ll read nothing else like it this year

This exhilarating debut about working-class girls growing up in the hope-starved atmosphere of a small northern English city feels essential

04/04 US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions

California cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen and more

04/04 Who Needs Intimacy?

Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.

04/04 Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’

The Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime writer

04/04 Inside John Lennon and Paul McCartney's partnership and the song that shifted the 'balance of power'

Ian Leslie's new Beatles book, 'John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,' offers a detailed narrative of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's creative partnership.

04/04 Review: Beware the nonbinary narrator who insists they are nothing like their father

The unnamed narrator of Zee Carlstrom's debut novel is full of anger at their AWOL dad, but over the course of a road trip home begins to question his certainty about their diverging views

04/04 When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all

03/04 Meryl Streep in talks to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie

Oscar-winner set to take on role as godlike lion usually perceived to be male in upcoming adaption of The Magician’s Nephew

03/04 ‘Heteropessimism’ didn’t spring from nowhere | Letters

Letters: Josephine Grahl advises looking at the labour burden placed on women and how social structures enforce this. Brid Connolly recalls Marge Piercy’s novel Body of Glass

03/04 Elijah Wood says fees for Lord of the Rings actors were ‘not massive’

Star says cast took a ‘gamble’ appearing in Peter Jackson’s hit trilogy and did not earn enough to ‘rest easy’ for life

03/04 Stirrings of lust and a ginger bush: the Jilly Cooper sentence that sent me down a rabbit hole

I quoted a single smutty line by the queen of bonkbusters in the manuscript for my debut novel. I never expected the strange yet heartwarming journey that followed

03/04 NaNoWriMo showed me I could knuckle down and write a book – and though it’s closing, I hope the idea behind it lives on

I won’t be showing off the results of the novel I wrote in a month, but the nonprofit’s community-backed challenge is worthwhile and should continue

03/04 Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo review – a gender-swapped Moby-Dick

A runaway orphan from coastal Kent is the protagonist in this tightly plotted reimagining of Herman Melville’s whaling classic

03/04 Biden skipped White House meeting after Trump debate for photoshoot, new book says

Ron Klain tells author Chris Whipple that Biden opted for Annie Leibovitz shoot at critical moment in campaign