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Four Hong Kong booksellers have been arrested for selling “seditious titles.”
As the Hong Kong Free Press reported this morning, four booksellers in Hong Kong have been arrested on suspicion of selling “seditious titles.”
The store in question is Book Punch,...
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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Killing Me Softly by Christie Watson (Phoenix, £20)In her second psychological thriller, Watson, a former nurse, perfectly captures the frenetic atmosphere and mordant humour...
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A new series on Charles Dickens takes your favorite Victorian novelist to the streets.
This year, the United Kingdom has made books a special cause.
The National Year of Reading is a twelve month, government-sponsored campaign to get the...
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Tell us: what have you been reading this month?
As part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month.Have you read...
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Don DeLillo’s sexy hockey novel is getting reissued.
Sure, your parents warned you not to do something only because your friends want you to, but sometimes maybe you should. This week, I’m...
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Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction
Anna Dempsey has been named the winner of the inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction, taking home £7,500 for her unpublished novel This Is...
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“Technophobe!” A Short History of An Insult
On May 13th 1985, a Police Department helicopter hovering above 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia made history: it dropped 11/4-pound blocks of C-4...
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‘I want my career, my children and a free supple life’: Sylvia Plath’s radical reinvention
In February 1962, Sylvia Plath dropped in on her neighbour in Devon, Rose Key, with “a plate of absolutely indigestible Black Walnut-flavored cupcakes”. She...
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Lit Hub Daily: March 24, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1905, Jules Verne dies.
Cecile Pin recommends astronaut books by Samantha Harvey, Eliana Ramage, Taylor Jenkins Reid,...
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Enough Said by Alan Bennett review – a man for all seasons
In the introduction to this new instalment of Alan Bennett’s diaries, which run from 2016 to 2024, the author worries about what to write:...
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Nazis in America, c. 1938-1941
DAYTON, OHIO – MARCH 1938
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Residents were shocked when Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, the German-American Bund’s national public relations officer, spoke at Liederkranz...