Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson
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Judith Schalansky has become the ninth author to be selected for the Future Library, which asks authors to create a work that will not be revealed to readers until 2114
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Pajtim Statovci shares his love of Finnish literature and the books that helped him, a child of immigrants, to find his voice
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JK Rowling furious to hear monarch has transitioned to a man
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JK Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows
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‘I just wanted my life to end’: The mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance
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Lars Kepler, pen name of husband-and-wife crime fiction-writing team, recommend books that take readers beyond fictitious murders to the soul of Stockholm
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With a reputation for having more authors per capita than any other country, Olaf Olafsson leads a literary stroll through Iceland's capital
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Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why?
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‘Fantastic Beasts’: How scandal and controversy have derailed the wizarding franchise
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Museum dedicated to Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, designed as an experiential fantasy world, has officially opened in Odense
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Dungeons & Dragons’ next anthology is written entirely by Black and Brown authors
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Harry Potter (a literary analysis)
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It's time to come clean
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A mathematician explains what Foundation gets right about predicting the future
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Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’
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Joan Didion, ‘new journalist’ who explored culture and chaos, dies at 87
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Denis Villeneuve tackling adaptation of sci-fi classic ‘Rendezvous With Rama’
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Bill Nighy stars as the voice of Terry Pratchett
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How to save the novel - self-censorship and problematic language in modern fiction
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David Graeber’s Possible Worlds
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Margaret Atwood TERF Twitter controversy
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time | Official trailer
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I left poverty after writing 'Maid.' But poverty never left me
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A story about living in nature and the value of culture captures the spirit of Finland – Lizzie Enfield explores the remarkable legacy of 'Seitsemän veljestä'
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Denmark now has two Little Mermaids. The famous one is suing.
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How Twitter can ruin a life: The story of Isabel Fall
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Kristen Roupenian’s viral story draws specific details from my own life. I’ve spent the years since it published wondering: How did she know?
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William Gibson says today's internet is nothing like what he envisioned
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Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian author and women’s rights icon, dies
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HG Wells fans spot numerous errors on Royal Mint's new £2 coin
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Explore Indigenous futurisms with these science fiction and fantasy books by indigenous authors
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Legendary science fiction author Ben Bova has passed at the age of 88, due to Covid
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Alan Dean Foster—author of novelizations of Star Wars: A New Hope, the Alien franchise, and more—says that Disney has not paid any royalties since acquiring the rights to his books
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Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions may finally be published, after five-decade wait
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Pippi and the Moomins - the antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever.
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Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
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Thomas Frank on the podcast "Useful Idiots"
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CBS Studios has struck a global first-look deal for an adaptation of Ragnar Jónasson's best-selling nordic-noir book The Darkness
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JK Rowling’s latest book is about a murderous cis man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims
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Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
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John Boyne accidentally includes Zelda video game monsters in novel
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Brandon Sanderson: 'After a dozen rejected novels, you think maybe this isn’t for you'
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Stephen Colbert interviews Mary Trump on her new book
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Signs you're a Black character written by a White author
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Frog and Toad (and me)
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How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood
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Remembrance - Emily Bronte
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The weight of James Arthur Baldwin
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