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- Giovanni’s Room shows the fearful side of dauntless James BaldwinA love story ever on the brink of ‘self-contempt’, the novel shows the private terrors that beset the fearless public campaignerToday James Baldwin is most frequently encountered as a “trailblazer of the civil rights movement”; a magnificent prophet who declared that “ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have”.His contemporar […]
- DC cancels comic where Jesus learns from superhero after outcryThe Second Coming series, which had been due to launch next month, has been pulled following campaign by conservative site CitizenGoA new comics series in which Jesus Christ is sent on “a most holy mission by God” to learn “what it takes to be the true messiah of mankind” from a superhero called Sun-Man, has been cancelled by DC Comics. The move follows a pe […]
- Australian author sees similar plot to his in trailer for new Danny Boyle filmThe upcoming movie Yesterday bears resemblance to Nick Milligan’s novel EnormityWhen Nick Milligan decided to self-publish his speculative fiction novel, Enormity, he knew it was going to be a hard slog to find an audience. But seeing a similar plot play out in the trailer for Danny Boyle’s new film, Yesterday, came as a shock.“I had high expectations for En […]
- Leïla Slimani and Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian – books podcastOn this week’s podcast, French author Leïla Slimani sits down with Sian to talk about her novel Adèle, the story of a self-destructive sex addict. And author Kristen Roupenian reveals to Hadley Freeman how writing one short story, Cat Person, threw her suddenly into the spotlight and cast her, rather dauntingly, as an internationally recognised expert on mod […]
- Carnegie medal longlist highlights trend for gritty children's booksTwenty books in contention for this year’s £5,000 award encompass stories of bereavement, isolation and marginalisationFrom a girl’s exploration of her Taiwanese heritage following her mother’s suicide to the story of two young carers whose mother is terminally ill, the 2019 longlist for the Carnegie medal rides a wave of children’s books about marginalisati […]
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