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Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Eight unpublished stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author will be issued later this year as The Land of Sweet Forever…
Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published

‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past…
‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system…
‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements

Picture books for children – reviews

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Laughter abounds with tales of mini beasts at bedtime, a box filled with babbling babies and an odd-couple comedy from Julia Donaldson…
Picture books for children – reviews

Women’s prize for fiction reveals longlist ‘overflowing with compelling stories’

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout are among the 16 writers in contention for the £30,000 prize…
Women’s prize for fiction reveals longlist ‘overflowing with compelling stories’

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957…
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

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

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments…
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Poem of the week: The Widow’s Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – The conversational plainness of this monologue carries with it intense feeling…
Poem of the week: The Widow’s Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams

The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – a comedian’s chronicle of cancer

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – In this forthright account of his diagnosis and treatment, Steel wrings humour from the horror while honouring friends found and lost – and the significance of the NHS…
The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – a comedian’s chronicle of cancer

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain…
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney review – the women behind the woman

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – An erudite exploration of the female writers who influenced the celebrated 19th-century author brings to light neglected or forgotten but often captivating literature…
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney review – the women behind the woman

Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home review – the wonder of the wireless revolution

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Beaty Rubens’s study of the impact of early radio broadcasts in Britain is full of fascinating and often poignant detail…
Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home review – the wonder of the wireless revolution

The Cafe With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – a cup of tea and a slice of life

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – A humble neighbourhood eatery in Vienna is the hub for a moving exploration of everyday urban existence in a new novel by the International Booker-shortlisted Austrian author…
The Cafe With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – a cup of tea and a slice of life

Madeleine Watts: ‘Climate change should be in everyone’s writing right now’

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – In her second novel Elegy, Southwest, the Australian author writes into the climate crisis from a millennial perspective with a mixed sense of melancholy and hope…
Madeleine Watts: ‘Climate change should be in everyone’s writing right now’

Soft Core by Brittany Newell review – highly strung strippers and cranky madams

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – The writer’s impressive second novel about an erotic dancer and newbie dominatrix straddles thriller and satire in its depiction of desire and longing…
Soft Core by Brittany Newell review – highly strung strippers and cranky madams

Tom Cotton gingerly steps on Trump’s toes as he eviscerates TikTok in book

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Republican seeks to shine light on major threat to US interests in Seven Things You Can’t Say About China – but may come to regret his moves as missteps…
Tom Cotton gingerly steps on Trump’s toes as he eviscerates TikTok in book

Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – the kids aren’t all right

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Against a backdrop of Thatcher and the Falklands, this sharp debut punctures the facade of life at a middle-England grammar school…
Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – the kids aren’t all right

In brief: The Curious Life of the Cuckoo; The Dream Hotel; The Rising Down – review

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – An extensive hymn of praise to a springtime songbird; a gripping tale of a none-too-distant dystopia; and a history of the land and people of a small part of Sussex…
In brief: The Curious Life of the Cuckoo; The Dream Hotel; The Rising Down – review

Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Elif Shafak, Sarah Perry, Jeffrey Boakye and others tell us which of the two totemic literary figures they favour…
Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers

‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British literary giant, the Bard…
‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?
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