This month’s best paperbacks: Haruki Murakami, Richard Powers and more | Paperbacks

This month’s best paperbacks: Haruki Murakami, Richard Powers and more | Paperbacks

Fiction A visionary epic The Third Realm Karl Ove Knausgård The Third Realm Karl Ove Knausgård A visionary epic The Third Realm is quite different from the first two books in Knausgård’s... Read more »
Yiyun Li and Barbara Demick among writers longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize | Books

Yiyun Li and Barbara Demick among writers longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize | Books

Personal stories are a strong focus in this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction longlist, with Yiyun Li’s memoir about the loss of her two teenage sons by suicide and Barbara Demick’s... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 3rd

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 3rd

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Shamiso by Brian Chikwava review – a globe-trotting coming-of-age story | Fiction

Shamiso by Brian Chikwava review – a globe-trotting coming-of-age story | Fiction

In the opening chapters of Zimbabwean author Brian Chikwava’s follow-up to his 2009 debut Harare North, the eponymous teen protagonist is given a pendant by an elder of the family, the irrepressible... Read more »
Australian Book Week is here – and we’d love to see your children’s costumes | Australian education

Australian Book Week is here – and we’d love to see your children’s costumes | Australian education

Book Week is in full swing, marking it’s 80th year celebrating all things reading and literacy for Australia’s schoolchildren. The theme for the week, which runs from Saturday 16 to Saturday 23... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 29th

Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 29th

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A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb? | Philosophy books

A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb? | Philosophy books

Stupidity, no question, can be just as rich and subtle as its opposite. Three and a half decades on, I still sometimes meditate on what a school friend of mine said in a... Read more »
Margaret Atwood releases satirical short story critiquing book bans in Canada | Canada

Margaret Atwood releases satirical short story critiquing book bans in Canada | Canada

Margaret Atwood has released a new short story critiquing elected officials for a wide-ranging book ban in the Canadian province of Alberta. The controversial decision to remove books purportedly containing “explicit sexual... Read more »
A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb? | Philosophy books

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 2nd

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