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The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive orderJulianne Moore has s […]

Repetition mounts to unnerving auditory effect as a trapped fly makes a life-or-death bid to escapeThatIt would be better not to be
that fly — the fly that sees
i […]

The TV reporter’s struggles with depression and the suicide of his father, whose own father killed himself, prompt this incisive, highly personal i […]

This courageous, melancholy memoir, about the author’s struggle to reconcile his faith with his sexuality, argues that homophobia is a cultural phenomenon, not a r […]

Once confined to a dark, dusty corner of the internet, incels are becoming increasingly mainstream as harrowing news stories about murder sprees and manifestos […]

I read six books this week. 14. First State of Being. Erin Entrada Kelly. 2024. 272 pages.
[Source: Library] [4 stars, Newbery Medal, MG Speculative Fiction, MG […]

   15. Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life. James Curtis. 2022. 810 pages. [Source: Library] [5 stars, adult nonfiction, biography]First sentence: The man in the pork […]

The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer; The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha; The Weekenders […]

Growing older, culinary mishaps and meeting JFK are among the subjects in this fiercely funny collection of essays, narrated by the authorThere is a lot about […]

Lovers living out their Notting Hill fantasies, shy readers whose eyes met at a book club … readers give us a tour of the romance section for Valentine’s Day […]

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Golden Hour’ by Lorcán Black from his collection ‘Strange Husbandry’.
The post Friday Poem – ‘The Golden Hour’ by Lorcán Black […]

The poet on his early love of horror and the transformative power of Thom GunnMy earliest reading memory
A memory of being read to, rather than of reading. Every […]

The novelist and reporter delivers a passionate indictment of complacent liberal responses to Israel’s brutal campaign“Where’s the Palestinian Martin Luther King? […]

The novelist uses perfume to conjure scenes from a working-class upbringing in this funny, bleak memoirWhen Adelle Stripe was 23, she got a job working on a sex […]

Dear England: Lessons on Leadership, which ‘transcends football’ and offers advice on resilience and performance for individuals and organisations, will come out […]

A tale of radioactive mutation and bloodlust takes flight in the Argentinian author’s wild anti-capitalist satireArgentina, 2272. The Argentine Pampas, the g […]