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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Origin story of Dennis the Menace’s jumper to be revealed

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To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Beano’s longest-running character, comic strip The Epic Yarn of Awesomeness will tell the garment’s...

Margaret Atwood and JM Coetzee demand release of jailed Iranian writers

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A letter by PEN America, signed by dozens of high-profile writers and artistic figures, calls for Baktash Abtin, Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khan...

‘Absolute beast’: critics go wild for No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s last Bond film

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Despite a few dissenting voices bemoaning a bloated plot, film reviewers largely agree that this is the 007 blockbuster to tempt audiences b...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X Kendi awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’

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Writers Daniel Alarcón and Reginald Dwayne Betts have also been named on the list of 25 new fellows to receive $625,000 from the foundation ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Laura Jean McKay wins the Arthur C Clarke award

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The Australian writer has won the prestigious science fiction prize for her debut novel The Animals in That Country Continue reading...

Marvel sues to retain control of Avengers characters

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The comics giant has issued lawsuits in a bid to hold on to the copyright of heroes including Spider-Man and Iron Man Continue reading... ...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Move over David Walliams … the hunt is on to diversify children’s books

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Schemes provide mentors and funding to help aspiring writers on low incomes enter market dominated by white celebrities Continue reading......
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Pennsylvania school district reverses ban on books by authors of colour

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The Central York school board has gone back on its decision to bar a list of titles by or about people of colour from being used as educatio...

Netflix acquires works of Roald Dahl as it escalates streaming wars

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Content deal over author of children’s classics such as Matilda and the BFG is firm’s biggest to date Continue reading...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

French book prize under fire after judge’s partner makes shortlist

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Goncourt secretary defends decision but criticises same judge for writing scathing review of rival work Continue reading...

Einstein’s handwritten calculations for theory of relativity to be auctioned for €3m

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The rare document, which records attempts to explain an anomaly in the orbit of Mercury, is ‘a fascinating dive into the mind of the greates...

Richard Osman’s second book is one of the fastest-selling novels since records began

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The Pointless presenter’s second crime novel, The Man Who Died Twice, has sold 114,202 copies in its first week on sale Continue reading......

Gilgamesh Dream Tablet to be formally handed back to Iraq

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The 3,600-year-old tablet that shows parts of a Sumerian poem will be returned by the US to the country it was taken from in 1991 Continue ...

Charlie and Lola author Lauren Child says children’s books should be taken seriously

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The former children’s laureate will launch her manifesto this evening, in which she counters the assumption that work created for children i...