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Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician, also says experience and calming presence make US president ‘a man for his age’Amid relentless debate about whether at 80 Joe Biden is too old to be president or to complete an effective second term, an eag…
Award-winning poet last seen in early hours of Saturday morning in Kelmarsh, NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire police are appealing for information to help find the award-winning poet Gboyega Odubanjo, who has been missing since the early hours of Satur…
When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research revealsWhen William Wordsworth’s beloved younger brother John died on a ship that sank in rough seas off the coast of Dorset in 1805, the gre…
Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debtIt was an experience that ruptured his childhood but shaped his life’s work. Two hundred years ago, 11-year-old Charles Dickens was taken out of sc…
Novel described as ‘truly stunning feat of fiction’ tells love story of two first world war soldiersAlice Winn has won the 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for her novel In Memoriam, which has been described as a “truly stunning feat of fiction”.Th…
The Fall will be published next month and promises to chronicle the rightwing network and the Murdoch family’s downfall The author Michael Wolff, whose bestselling books have chronicled the rise and fall of Donald Trump, promised on Tuesday to tell re…
In 1995 Bill Watterson walked away from “the madness that had consumed him for practically his entire adulthood,” writes the American Conservative.
Though everyone loved his Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, “I had virtually no life beyond the drawing…
Digital Public Public Library fights back against rightwing censorship with resource that works through geo-targetingMaia Kobabe’s 2019 memoir Gender Queer is an after-dinner favorite in Jen Cousins’ house. The family lives in Orange county, Florida, a…
Author wrote book about Michael Oher and Tuohy familyOher says family deceived him over events depicted in bookMichael Lewis, the author of The Blind Side, has defended the family at the heart of the book over allegations they deceived former NFL playe…
The book would continue the two he wrote with the late Peter Straub, while new stories are due next yearStephen King has suggested that he may write a third instalment of the two-book Talisman series, which he co-wrote with the late Peter Straub. Asked…