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If the centenary is an appropriate anniversary for assessing a book’s staying power, then it’s probably about time to acknowledge that Graham Greene was wrong. The "Brighton Rock" author made the rookie mistake of trying to look through the mists of time when he declared: “There is no novelist of [the 20th century] more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford.” But if, 100 years after its first volume was published in April 1924, you went searching for a copy of "Parade’s End" in your local bookshop, you might find yourself more unlucky than if you were looking for, say, a paperback of Greene’s "T...
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If there was anyone who imagined that, after kowtowing to Boris Johnson throughout his dismal premiership, leading her own dangerous and divisive culture war campaign for the Tory party leadership contest, crashing the UK economy in one afternoon, and resigning after a mere seven weeks as Prime Minister, Liz Truss would beat a quiet, shamefaced retreat from the public eye, then those people - and there can’t have been many - need to think again. Today, the shortest-serving British Prime Minister ever releases her new book, the ominously (and poorly) titled 'Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons ...
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New York (AFP) - "Knife", a memoir by Salman Rushdie released on Tuesday, recounts the near-fatal stabbing at a public event in 2022 that left him blind in one eye and his journey to healing. The Indian-born author, a British and naturalized American based in New York, has faced death threats since his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was declared blasphemous by Iran's supreme leader, making Rushdie a global symbol of free speech. After going unscathed for years, a knife-wielding assailant jumped on stage at an arts gathering in rural New York state and stabbed Rushdie multiple times in the nec...
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“I was seated at stage right,” Salman Rushdie read from his upcoming memoir, about the knife attack that almost claimed his life and left him blind in one eye. “Then, in the corner of my right eye – the last thing my right eye would ever see – I saw the man in black running toward me down the right-hand side of the seating area. Black clothes, black face mask. He was coming in hard and low. A squat missile. “I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way. So my first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing tow...
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New York (AFP) - British-American author Salman Rushdie releases his memoir "Knife" on Tuesday, recounting the harrowing experience of being stabbed at a public event in 2022 and how he overcame the near-fatal ordeal. Rushdie lost sight in one eye after the attack by a knife-wielding assailant, who jumped on stage at an arts gathering in New York state. The Indian-born author, a naturalized American based in New York, has faced death threats since his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was declared blasphemous by Iran's supreme leader. In an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" program, clips of whi...
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The shortlist for the International Booker Prize is finally here, celebrating some of the very best works of literature that were originally written in a language other than English. This year's contenders represent six languages (Dutch, German, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish) across six countries (Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, South Korea and Sweden) and three continents (Asia, Europe and South America). Meet the Kirklands, the creative couple getting people reading classic literatureDo polyglots process all foreign languages in the brain the same as their mother tongue? N...
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Tino Chibebe, an author and entrepreneurship advisor based in Brussels, remembers attending the first ever session of The Book Club. He had just finished reading ‘Americanah’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and was eager to hear what other readers had thought. But Chibebe didn’t know this was not a classic book club. It welcomed attendees who hadn’t read the novel in question, instead extracting paragraphs to use as a starting point for an in-depth discussion. “We explored themes of being in the diaspora, love, blackness,” Chibebe said. “It was a really intimate setting and a good discussion.” By ...
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Writer Lynne Reid Banks, known for her children’s book "The Indian in the Cupboard" has died at the age of 94 from cancer, “peacefully with her family around her,” her agent James Wils has said. Born in London on 31 July 1929, Banks was evacuated to Saskatoon in Canada during the Second World War. Upon her return to England, she trained as an actor before becoming one of the first female television journalists in Britain as a news reporter at ITN. Goodbye Cronut, hello Crookie: The new cross-bred croissant everyone's obsessed with Markus Hinterhäuser to be artistic director of Salzburg Festiva...
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Washington (AFP) - The Bidens' dogs grabbed headlines with their bad behavior, but "First Feline" Willow is getting a book all to herself. First Lady Jill Biden has written a children's story about the short-haired tabby's journey from a farm in Pennsylvania to the White House in 2022. With a June publication date, "Willow the White House Cat" will come out four months before President Joe Biden faces a bitter political catfight for reelection with Donald Trump. "As Willow bounds from room to room, exploring history in her new home, she learns quickly about all of the incredible people who mak...
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