Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects | Autobiography and memoir

Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects | Autobiography and memoir

At the end of last year, Netflix released Too Much – a sickly, indie-sleaze romcom about an American transplant who falls for a troubled British muso. It was created by Lena Dunham and... Read more »
Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ | Books

Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ | Books

“I don’t know when I read men any more”, the writer Zadie Smith told a literary festival audience on Sunday. “It does happen sometimes, but it’s completely flipped compared to the reading... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 27th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 27th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
Tom Gauld on almost reading the greats – cartoon

Tom Gauld on almost reading the greats – cartoon

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Susan Choi and Lily King shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction | Women’s prize for fiction

Susan Choi and Lily King shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction | Women’s prize for fiction

Acclaimed US novelists Susan Choi and Lily King are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, in a lineup dominated by debut authors and independent publishers. The six... Read more »
‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

A few weeks after the German publication of his debut novel in 2024, author Matthias Jügler received a call from an employee at the German government agency tasked with investigating the human rights... Read more »
‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

Newly released letters reveal JD Salinger’s wariness over ‘second-rate reviewers’ | JD Salinger

He was a reclusive author, who revealed little about himself or the inspiration for his 1951 masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye. Now letters that JD Salinger wrote to his editor have... Read more »
Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’ | Books

Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’ | Books

My earliest reading memoryI only realised how well I knew the Alfie stories by Shirley Hughes when I started reading them to my own children. Every time we read one now, I’m suddenly back... Read more »
University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack | Bondi beach terror attack

University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack | Bondi beach terror attack

An Australian publishing house has cancelled the publication of a children’s book by an award-winning Indigenous poet over comments the book’s illustrator made about the victims of the Bondi beach terror attack,... Read more »
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