Salman Rushdie to publish new collection of stories, The Eleventh Hour The first fiction the author has written since he was attacked in 2022 comprises three novellas and two shorter works set across India, England and the US ... theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-us .. theguardian-com-us-culture .. theguardian-com-books / / #news / / 12 days 12d Share
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson review - make America build again Over-regulation has rendered progressive change impossible, argue the authors of this clear and rigorous book. But what about the tradeoffs? theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-us .. theguardian-com-books .. theguardian-com-us-culture / / #news / / 12 days 12d Share
A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland review - a fantastic debut of forbidden desire This spare, luminously pure novel charts a secret gay relationship in post-industrial Wales ... theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-books .. theguardian-com-us / / #entertainment / / 12 days 12d Share
What Is Free Speech? by Fara Dabhoiwala review - a brilliant history of a weaponised mantra This fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itself ... theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-books .. theguardian-com-us .. theguardian-com-us-culture / / #entertainment / / 12 days 12d Share
UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has 'plummeted' theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-books / / #entertainment / / 13 days 13d Share
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami review - what if AI could read our minds? Longlisted for the Women's prize, this powerful dystopian novel imagines people jailed for their potential to commit crimes ... theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-us .. theguardian-com-us-culture .. theguardian-com-books .. theguardian-com-us-technology / / #news / / 13 days 13d Share
Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally ... theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-world .. theguardian-com-us .. theguardian-com-books .. theguardian-com-us-culture / / #news / / 13 days 13d Share
Homeland by Richard Beck review - shock and war in the US Journalist Beck argues that the war on terror made America vastly more authoritarian, paving the way for Trump ... theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-us .. theguardian-com-us-culture .. theguardian-com-books / / #news / / 13 days 13d Share
Raw Content by Naomi Booth review - those difficult newborn days This emotionally astute novel describes a woman's descent into psychological distress, but some of its ideas remain embryonic ... theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-us .. theguardian-com-us-lifeandstyle .. theguardian-com-books / / #news / / 13 days 13d Share
Free by Amanda Knox review - after the acquittal In her second memoir, Knox writes about her attempts to adjust to normal life after leaving prison in Italy ... theguardian.com theguardian.com / feeds theguardian-com-us .. theguardian-com-books .. theguardian-com-us-culture / / #news / / 13 days 13d Share