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Pollack, who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, Kate Godwin, had been fighting Hodgkin’s lymphomaRachel Pollack, award-winning author, leading authority on tarot and the occult, trans activist and comic-book writer who created the firs…
The online shop Book Depository is due to close at the end of April, vendors and publishing partners have been told. This comes after the bookseller’s parent company Amazon announced it had decided to “eliminate” a number of positions across its Device…
Forthcoming fifth volume of the hit series was planned to be the last but writer says a sixth book will give characters ‘their final moment to shine’ Alice Oseman has announced there will be a sixth book in their hit Heartstopper graphic novel series, …
Opponents say memoir The Courage to be Free, published in February, violates law governor signed last yearDemocrats in Florida are attempting to use a state law that censors books in public schools against the governor who signed it, Ron DeSantis, by a…
Recognising work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, the $175,000 awards aim to free writers to work without financial pressuresBooker prize-shortlisted author Percival Everett and Iñupiaq-Inuit poet dg nanouk okpik are among the recipients of th…
Novelist compares UK to Hungary in Radio Times interview, while Ken Bruce criticises handling of Radio 2 exit The BBC is “under threat, politically,” the novelist Ian McEwan has said, as he compared sections of the Conservative party to the populist ri…
Children’s and young adult author of 1970 book Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret says growing intolerance must be challengedThe author Judy Blume says a rise in intolerance in America has led to a “much worse” epidemic of book banning than she exper…
Pre-budget funding announcement follows a groundswell of support for cultural institutions after decades of budget cutsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe federal government has thrown a $33m lifeline to the National Library of Australia to …
The queen and warrior who led a revolt against the Romans is enjoying a national resurgence as a symbol of rebellionAt the Roar Women’s Festival in Colchester last month, a very special agony aunt was in attendance: Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, leader…
An anonymous reader shares this report from the Washington Post:
Steve Jobs never lived to be an old wise man.
But running Apple and Pixar, tumbling and thriving, earned him a lot of wisdom in his 56 years. Now, a small group of his family, friends …