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Nobel prize-winning Peruvian author still plans to write an essay on Sartre that ‘will be the last thing I write’Peru’s best-known living writer, the Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa, has announced that his seven-decade literary career is …
Artist creates new edition of Orwell classic after Swansea charity shop had its fill of Dan Brown bestsellerSix years after an Oxfam shop amusingly, but seriously, pleaded for no more copies of The Da Vinci Code, the artist David Shrigley has completed…
Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ in response to FT piece on seemingly copied passages in work on female economistsRachel Reeves has said she holds her hands up and acknowledges making mistakes in her new book about female economists afte…
Publisher to double shareholder payout as demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha ShannonBusiness live – latest updatesThe book publisher Bloomsbury has hit record profits in the first half of the year thanks in part to a boom in fantasy fi…
After backlash, company will no longer separate catalog at school fairs, which allowed districts to opt out of diverse booksAfter facing backlash, Scholastic has reversed course on its controversial decision to separate certain book titles in school fa…
Latest banned books list comes amid increase in type of books being banned from prison system, PEN America saysThe literary advocacy group PEN America has released a list of the most banned or restricted books in the US prison system, and the rundown c…
Ex-president interrupted briefing to ask why he should ‘give a fuck’ about Kurds amid US troop withdrawal, Adam Kinzinger writesDonald Trump surprised his own national security adviser and a group of Republican congressmen and women when he interrupted…
Corinne Purtill reports via Phys.Org: Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the moon, or by phlegm in the brain. They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and kill…
Library photographs and uploads its entire collection of manuscripts by author of The Canterbury Tales The entire collection of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works held by the British Library is being made available in digital format after the completion of a tw…
Exclusive: Sapiens author among 90 signatories to statement of dismay at ‘extreme moral insensitivity’Israel and Hamas at war – live updatesThe Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari has backed academics and peace activists in his home country in an attac…