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How to put your phone down and get back into habit of reading books

After an English academic at Oxford complained about students’ attention spans, we get experts’ tips on enjoying the written word

The Guardian - UK

Gatsby’s Long Island: From Manhattan to the Hamptons – discovering the places that inspired F Scott Fitzgerald

Ahead of 100th anniversary ‘The Great Gatsby’ in 2025, Ellie Seymour travels east from Manhattan to the Hamptons, discovering the places that inspired the great American novel

The Independent UK

Five Great Reads: Charli xcx and the Brat era, treating ADHD, and is there a ‘right’ way to grieve?

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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‘I felt I had no right to grieve’: what happens if your sorrow doesn’t seem appropriate?

When the author Daisy Buchanan lost a series of friends, she felt bereft – yet also that her feelings were misplaced. Here, she explores the notion of ‘disenfranchised grief’ – and learns how to let her sorrow in

The Guardian - UK

Best podcasts of the week: The wannabe sleuths who believe Avril Lavigne was ‘replaced’ by an imposter

In this week’s newsletter: Comedian Joanne McNally explores one of the most bizarre celebrity conspiracy theories in a new BBC series. Plus: five of the best books podcasts

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 summer love stories

With holidays, light evenings and heat, it is a season that goes naturally with romance, as authors from F Scott Fitzgerald to Maggie O’Farrell show

The Guardian - UK

Has social media ruined reading?

From cute colour-coded #shelfies to competitive reading challenges, have books become more about online performance than quiet pleasure?

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He gave me a battered copy of a book I already owned, and I felt I’d come home – the Christmas present I’ll never forget

Afters years of expectation, hope and disappointment, all it took was one simple, heartfelt gift to show me he was the one

The Guardian - UK

Through its rambling millionaires, The Great Gatsby satirises racist ideology

Letter: In his 1925 novel, F Scott Fitzgerald is not ‘referencing’ white supremacist ideas but attacking them head-on, writes Richard Ellis

The Guardian - UK

'Boris Johnson partied while people died and nurses' faces bore red scars of their PPE'

Ros Wynne Jones says what happened at Downing Street – vomiting, partying till 4am, utter arrogance and hubris – is only a metaphor for what Johnson and the other Buller Boys have done to Britain

Daily Mirror

What I wish I’d known about living with an anxiety disorder

When Daisy Buchanan was diagnosed with anxiety in her 20s she finally had a name for what she was feeling, but not the tools to cope. Here’s how she has learned to live with it

The Guardian - UK

Duchess of Cornwall says it is ‘very much a parent’s job’ to teach reading early

Camilla spoke with The Telegraph’s Daisy Buchanan via video call for her online Reading Room platform.

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