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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Alicia Vikander on pregnancy: 'Half the women in the audience will be thinking: she doesn't know what it's like'

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The Oscar-winner spoke at the premiere of The Light Between Oceans about co-star Michael Fassbender, and the challenges of playing a pregnan...

Czech publisher under fire for listing Jerusalem as capital of Israel in atlas

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Map publisher Shocart told by Czech education ministry to replace Jerusalem with Tel Aviv, after complaints from Palestine’s ambassador to P...

Daughter of missing Hong Kong bookseller told not to travel to Asia

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Angela Gui, daughter of Swedish citizen Gui Minhai who disappeared in Thailand and appeared on Chinese state television confessing to a crim...

Nauru files 'an extraordinary trove of short stories', says Richard Flanagan

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‘I suspect they will continue to be read in coming decades and even centuries,’ Man Booker prize-winning author says The Man Booker prize-w...

Ian McEwan: 'You can't make identity the outer limit of your politics'

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The author reveals at a Guardian Live event that his new novel, narrated by an unborn foetus, critiques current obsessions on university cam...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Dennis Cooper's blog re-launched after Google censorship criticisms

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Artist and author writes that tech firm will provide all Gmail correspondence and gif novel he was working on, and post data from site to ne...

Lancashire council to close more than 20 libraries

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Despite more than 7,000 responses to a recent consultation on library cuts, county council confirms more than 20 closures, with others left ...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author sued by publisher

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Publishing giant Hachette is taking author Seth Grahame-Smith to court for delivering manuscript that is ‘in large part an appropriation of ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Rhino-escape tips to omelette Viagra – 14th-century Arab encyclopaedia

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Al-Nuwayri’s The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, to be published in translation by Penguin in October, has been compressed down ...

Steampunk and the rise of the modern-day Victorian inventors – video explainer

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In August 2016, Oamaru, New Zealand, broke the world record for the greatest number of steampunks gathered in once place – but what is steam...

Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji's jail term upheld over sexually explicit book

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Author must continue a two-year sentence handed down for including a scene that ‘violated public modesty’ in his novel The Use of Life Egyp...

Emma Thompson set for adaptation of Ian McEwan's The Children Act

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Actor in talks for lead role in Richard Eyre-directed film about high court judge dealing with a life-or-death legal case Emma Thompson is ...

New HomePlace arts centre to celebrate life and work of Seamus Heaney

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Opening will take place next month after £4.25m transformation of police station in poet’s Derry hometown Bellaghy A once heavily fortified...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Emily Brontë may have had Asperger syndrome, says biographer

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Claire Harman says several of the Wuthering Heights author’s character traits – including a dislike of leaving home and bursts of frustratio...