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  • Published on Aug 3, 2025

    Sunday book pick: In 2025 Booker Prize-longlisted ‘Universality’, everyone’s politics is for sale

    “Why did I drink so much? I couldn’t stand being drunk. Though total sobriety was arguably worse. It was the in-between land I liked,” muses Miriam Leonard aka Lenny, one of the characters in Natasha Brown’s second novel, Universality. A fool’s gold Lenny’ …

    Source: Scroll.in - Center-left
  • Published on 18:18 GMT

    Dame Stella Rimington obituary

    Stella Rimington, who has died aged 90, was the first head of the Security Service, commonly known as MI5, to be officially identified. She was also the first woman to head the agency, one that had been deeply infused with male culture. Asked what …

    Source: The Guardian - Center-left
  • Published on 20:36 GMT

    Noteworthy and influential people who’ve died this year

    July saw the death of heavy metal godfather Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Sabbath lead singer whose influence in the genre spans generations. Known for his music’s morbid imagery — as well as his own legendary excesses — Osbourne died just weeks after his …

    Source: WBAL - Maryland - Neutral
  • Published on 20:09 GMT

    Dame Stella Rimington, first female head of MI5, dies aged 90

    Spiky of hair and intense of gaze, Stella Rimington made the headlines in 1992 when she became the first female director-general of the Security Service, better known as MI5. She had previously headed three of the organisation’s operational branches and …

    Source: The Times - Center-right
  • Published on 16:48 GMT

    Stella Rimington: The spy who brought MI5 out of the shadows

    In the summer of 1967 Stella Rimington, the bored wife of a junior diplomat in New Delhi, was approached by another British official with a proposition: would she be interested in “helping out” in his office? The author of the request was “a baronet and a …

    Source: Express & Star - Neutral
  • Published on 22:16 GMT

    The Making of Mamdani

    When Zohran Mamdani surged onto the political scene in New York earlier this year and won the city’s Democratic Party primary, many wondered what kind of leader he would make for the United States’ largest and most cosmopolitan city if he were to become …

    Source: Foreign Policy - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 31, 2025

    2025 Booker Prize longlist revealed as 'wonderful' books left judges 'elated'

    The wait is over as the Booker Prize longlist has finally been announced. Selected by the 2025 judging panel chaired by Roddy Doyle — a critically acclaimed writer and 1993 Booker Prize winner — the list is peppered with some returning favourites, a few …

    Source: The Mirror - Left-wing
  • Published on Jul 31, 2025

    Booker prize unveils its most diverse lineup yet

    This year’s Booker Prize longlist features 13 authors from 9 different countries, making it the most globally diverse selection in the past ten years. Notably, Indian author Kiran Desai and Malaysian writer Tash Aw are among the highlighted names. Desai’s …

    Source: Daily Times - Center-left
  • Published on 11:35 GMT

    Oxford alumni win more literary prizes than any other university

    The Selected British Literary Prizes dataset published this year compiled information on the winners and shortlisted authors of nine major British literary prizes over the last 32 years.  It revealed the University of Oxford produced a staggering 12 per …

    Source: Oxford Mail - Pending
  • Published on Jul 31, 2025

    Booker Prize releases most diverse longlist nominees in a decade

    KARACHI: Featuring thirteen nominees from nine different nationalities - including Indian novelist Kiran Desai and Malaysian author Tash Aw - this year’s Booker Prize longlist is the most global in a decade, reported the Guardian.  At 667 pages, Desai’s …

    Source: The Express Tribune - Indeterminate
  • Published on 10:54 GMT

    It’s Unconventional. Don’t Be Scared Off.

    This book may contain language, sexual content, and themes of grief and loss, which may be challenging for some readers. Reader caution advised. It’s Unconventional. Don’t Be Scared Off. by Chris Hudson Hi, my name is Chris Hudson and I’m an English …

    Source: High Plains Public Radio - Kansas - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Jul 30, 2025

    Booker Prize 2025: Kiran Desai returns with long-awaited follow-up as longlist is revealed

    Nearly two decades after her Booker Prize-winning triumph with The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai has re-emerged with The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a sweeping 667-page novel that leads this year’s Booker Prize longlist — one of the most hotly …

    Source: Wallpaper* - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 30, 2025

    A reader’s guide to the 2025 Booker Prize Longlist

    Every summer, the Booker Prize longlist offers a snapshot of the contemporary novel. This year’s longlist is no exception. Spanning nine nationalities and four continents, the 13 novels that make up the 2025 “Booker Dozen” trace fault lines both personal …

    Source: The Indian Express - Center-left
  • Published on Aug 3, 2025

    This right-wing lunacy is a violation of everything conservatives hold dear

    According to a new report by a state commission on banned books in Virginia schools, Hanover County Public Schools removed the book Medical Discoveries: Medical Breakthroughs and the People Who Developed Them from libraries sometime between July 2020 and …

    Source: Raw Story - Left-wing
  • Published on Aug 3, 2025

    The Book Club: Another Read with Jenna title, a Booker winner and more

    Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share their mini-reviews with you …

    Source: Denver Post - Colorado - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 3, 2025

    David Attenborough’s skin-crawling new nature series

    Parenthood Sunday, 7.20pm, BBC One A sleepy newborn gorilla resting on its mother’s chest might be the sweetest opening to a nature series ever, but give it 10 minutes and we’re soon watching lions rip open a buffalo. Welcome to David Attenborough’s …

    Source: The Guardian - Center-left
  • Published on Aug 3, 2025

    Don't miss out on the BBC's "underrated masterpiece" '40s-set period drama that will 'blow you away'

    The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the critically acclaimed period drama starring Jacob Elordi and Odessa Young, is back on television tonight (Sunday, 3 August). Based on Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel, the Australian miniseries …

    Source: Digital Spy - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 3, 2025

    A monthly roundup of news about Caribbean books and writers

    Welcome to the latest instalment of the Bocas Book Bulletin, a monthly roundup of Caribbean literary news, curated by the Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival, and published in the Sunday Express. New releases Dante’s Inferno: A …

    Source: Trinidad Express - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 2, 2025

    Comedy's invisible women are back and doing it for themselves

    These fabulous creatures used to be everywhere in television, often with their names in the title - The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Grace Under Fire, Roseanne, Cybill - and then just like that they disappeared. Invisible at home, work, and in film and …

    Source: The Herald (Scotland) - Center-left

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