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Writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards in support of Gaza
Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment...
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‘I can’t explain it’: Salman Rushdie says his survival in knife attack was a miracle
Despite his lack of faith, the author believes ‘something happened that was not supposed to happen’...
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‘I wanted to end my life’: ‘Bookseller of Kabul’ rebuilds destroyed business
Shah Muhammad Rais was devastated when Taliban destroyed his shop, but now he is sending books...
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John Barth, American postmodernist novelist, dies aged 93
The author of Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor was part of a wave of writers...
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The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art...
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Book of Donald: Trump hawks special ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles for $60
Former president sells Trump-endorsed Bible in concert with Lee Greenwood, country singer whose music is played...
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Poem inspired by New York mugging wins top prize in National Poetry Competition
Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in...
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Ulysses’ Molly Bloom to be brought to life in video at Derry festival
Fiona Shaw, Cush Jumbo, Imelda Staunton and Miriam Margolyes to enact parts of novel’s concluding monologue...
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Rare copy of Mao’s Little Red Book expected to fetch more than £30,000
Early editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution...
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Biden ‘privately defiant’ over chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, book says
The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US...
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Open letter criticising PEN America’s stance on Israel-Gaza war reaches 500 signatories
Writers including Roxane Gay have called on the organisation to ‘wake up from its silent, tepid,...
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Bruce Willis’ wife writing book about being his caregiver after dementia diagnosis
Announcing her untitled book, set to be published in 2025, Emma Heming Willis recalls having ‘close...
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N Scott Momaday, Pulitzer-winning Native American novelist, dies aged 89
The Kiowa tribe member’s debut House Made of Dawn is credited as the starting point for...
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‘This person should not be president’: Kamala Harris takes hits in book on Biden
Hunter Walker and Luppe B Luppen, authors of The Truce, quote former staffers to vice-president in...
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Russia designates popular writer a foreign agent over Ukraine stance
Books by bestselling author Grigori Chkhartishvili, who writes under pen name Boris Akunin, removed from shelvesRussia-Ukraine...
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‘It’s a golden age’: poetry flourishes in Ukraine – but at a terrible price
Conflict has changed Ukrainian poetry and boosted interest at home and abroad, but several poets have...