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Slyly investigating language and bias in media culture, this follow-up to Assembly confirms Brown as one of the most intelligent voices writing today

Research shows that children who have books in their home and who talk about stories or learn letters with their families, are more likely to do well at school – not only in literacy but across the board. And these effects are crucial and long-lasting: they can still be seen…

France's parliament – the National Assembly – on Tuesday voted unanimously on a resolution calling for the publication of the public complaints log books that were compiled in response to the "Yellow Vest" protests in 2018-2019.

After the shock resignation of the festival’s chair, the Sydney writers’ festival unveils its starry 2025 program in ‘an incredibly polarised environment’

Author of Detransition, Baby found success and pushback she never anticipated and now returns with a provocative collection of stories

This fine novel investigates the fate of displaced people in the hazardous, dirty backwash of the second world war

The third season of Mike White’s delicious resort-set comedy drama has teased yet another murder but we don’t yet know the whos or the whys

Dubbed the ‘High Priestess of Potato’ by Nigella Lawson, Poppy O’Toole has built a career on her love of spuds. Now, with ‘The Potato Book’, the TikTok star is taking her obsession to decadent new heights – with a little help from an outrageous amount of butter, says Ella Walker

INTERVIEW : The Women’s Prize-nominated author Torrey Peters speaks to Hannah Ewens about horny lumberjacks, creating work for a dark political future in the US and why she won’t stop writing from the trans female perspective