Firefighters in Sicily rescue 400 rare library books from precipice after landslide | Italy

Firefighters in Sicily rescue 400 rare library books from precipice after landslide | Italy

Firefighters in Sicily have rescued about 400 rare books from a library in Niscemi that hangs on the edge of a mudflow, after a devastating landslide in January tore away an entire... Read more »
Asako Yuzuki: ‘I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman’ | Fiction in translation

Asako Yuzuki: ‘I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman’ | Fiction in translation

The next time Japanese novelist Asako Yuzuki comes to the UK, she would like to bake some traditional Japanese muffins for Paul Hollywood on The Great British Bake Off, she says when we... Read more »
‘I could see myself stepping into that void’: Gavin Newsom on fighting Trump and running in 2028 – podcast | Gavin Newsom

‘I could see myself stepping into that void’: Gavin Newsom on fighting Trump and running in 2028 – podcast | Gavin Newsom

The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is widely regarded as one of the Democratic party’s leading contenders for the 2028 presidential election. He has also published a new book, Young Man in... Read more »
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February | Books

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February | Books

Paul, Guardian reader I’ve been reading a very short book by Claire Baglin, translated by Jordan Stump, On the Clock. Set on the edge of somewhere in Brittany, all run-down blocks, dual... Read more »
‘I could see myself stepping into that void’: Gavin Newsom on fighting Trump and running in 2028 – podcast | Gavin Newsom

Watching Watership Down on acid with Bez: Shaun Ryder releases new memoir 24 Hour Party Person | Books

Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is publishing a new memoir and will personally sign every copy. “I’ve done more books now, I think, than Shakespeare, sort of,” said Ryder,... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 27th

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 27th

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 27th

The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement

In many cases, Indigenous enslavement adds new dimensions to familiar histories of the Americas—and to some of their most famous actors. Christopher Columbus sold hundreds of Indians into slavery in Europe. Hernán... Read more »
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February | Books

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li audiobook review – a deconstruction of grief | Autobiography and memoir

‘There is no good way to say this.” This is the phrase used by police when visiting the Chinese-American author Yiyun Li – twice. On the first occasion, officers advise her and... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 26th

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 26th

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