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The US presidential election is neck and neck. But only one candidate has been compared to Adolf Hitler. Is it an exaggeration or based in fact?

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'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement

The National Book Foundation has awarded Barbara Kingsolver a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL), which has previously been given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Joan Didion among others

The Independent UK

‘You can’t murder a people and walk away scot-free.’ In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker explores morality in war

The first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.

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Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

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Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century

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‘You can write anything about sex, but you cannot talk about money’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on life after Fleishman

Her bestselling debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble, became a hit TV series. Now Taffy Brodesser-Akner is taking on the American dream

The Guardian - UK

Paul Auster obituary

Author of The New York Trilogy who conjured up a world of wonder and happenstance, miracle and catastrophe

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Power of Sail review – campus cancel culture drama ripe for a Netflix series

Paul Grellong’s gripping dialogue makes a brisk plot and unlikable characters immensely watchable as a Harvard professor invites a white supremacist for a debate

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Tristram Powell obituary

TV director who made dramas by some of the top screenwriters of the 1980s and 90s, such as Alan Bennett and Alan Plater

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How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto review – skilful skewering

A young scientist follows her discredited mentor to a university for cancelled academics in this dark, complex debut about the culture wars

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Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

The Guardian - UK

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

The Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fiction

The Guardian - UK

Milan Kundera, Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris aged 94

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday

The Independent UK

Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera, author of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, dies at 94

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday.

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Bruno Schulz: An Artist, A Murder, and the Hijacking of History review – an extraordinary mind and a cruel death

Benjamin Balint’s biography of ‘writer’s writer’ Bruno Schulz conjures the fascinating life and afterlife of a genre-defying author and artist

The Independent UK

Max Porter: ‘Empower yourself to think carefully about men and masculinity’

As he releases his fourth novel, ‘Shy’, Max Porter talks to Patrick Sproull about the end of his ‘boyhood’ trilogy, sensitivity readers, and still reading Philip Roth and Ted Hughes

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Five years after his death, Philip Roth's concern for US democracy lives on

Newark (United States) (AFP) - Five years after his death, Philip Roth's concern for the state of American democracy lives on, evidenced during a sprawling celebration and debate of the writer's legacy on what would have been his 90th birthday.

The Independent UK

Philip Roth tribute to be held in his native New Jersey

Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be among dozens of featured guests at a Philip Roth tribute taking place mid-March in the late novelist’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey

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The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about fathers and sons

In memoirs by authors from Philip Roth to Michael Frayn, the Dad-Lit genre is always a little oedipal but there is also room for warmer feelings

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John Currin: ‘Misogyny’s kind of a dumb word. I don’t hate women. I hate men’

His paintings of nude women remain controversial yet sell for huge sums of money. Now with a new exhibition, 30 years after his first, the American artist talks inspirations, ‘the real history of art’ and the turning point in his life

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Peter Straub obituary

Award-winning horror writer whose novels included Julia, Ghost Story and the bestselling The Talisman with Stephen King

The Conversation

'The entire industry is based on hunches': is Australian publishing an art, a science or a gamble?

Jason Epstein was the publisher and editor of authors such as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. In his 2001 book, Book Business, he described how the once-relaxed Random House – where authors frequented the publishing office (and sometimes slept there), and where editors had stronger relationships…

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Orlando Figes: ‘Gorbachev was a very sharp and likable person’

The award-winning historian on Putin’s cult of personality, why he loves Turgenev, and giving up on books after 20 pages

Chicago Tribune

Adam Levin’s latest big, huge novel throws Chicago into a giant sinkhole. After all, he lives in Florida now.

CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known…

The Independent UK

Biographer accused of rape gets book deal for memoir billed as warning tale of ‘cancel culture’

Allegations against Blake Bailey surfaced last April, two weeks after his biography on Philip Roth was published

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