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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conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Eight unpublished stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author will be issued later this year as The Land of Sweet Forever…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
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‘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
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‘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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘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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