17 h. ago ‘Did you stand up?’: read part of Cory Booker’s blockbuster 25

I rise tonight because silence at this moment of national crisis would be a betrayal of some of the greatest heroes of our nationEditor’s note: the following is an excerpt from Cory Booker’s 25-hour marathon speech on the US Senate floorTonight, I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.Cory Booker is a US senator from New Jersey Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Best new books to read, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Anne Tyler

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64 h. ago Coronation Street fans can 'read this like a book' as new 'favourite duo' named

It comes after a tricky time for Betsy Swain in Weatherfield

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2 d. ago Dune star confirms he is returning in third film: ‘If you didn’t read the books, it’s not my fault’

Jason Momoa says he is reprising role as swordmaster Duncan Idaho in third part of sci-fi blockbuster

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3 d. ago REVEALED: The hidden meanings in White Lotus: from the books the characters read to a creepy recurring number and even the role of MONKEYS, the subtle clues that suggest the killer's identity...

With just one episode left, White Lotus fans are on tenterhooks, desperate to discover the identity of the body seen floating in a pool in the first scene of what has been perhaps the darkest season yet.

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6 d. ago Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – a father and his autistic son bond through music

An honest and intensely moving book about the struggle of parenthood and the power of connectionOne of my favourite books growing up was my dad’s copy of The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics. I spent hours flicking through images of an eyeless, trombone-mouthed golden man swallowing naked bodies, and a full-page, black-and-white comic strip by legendary psychedelic artist Rick Griffin. It didn’t matter that I hadn’t yet listened to most of the songs – the surreal visual riffs felt like dispatches from an undiscovered country. Later, the Beatles became my favourite band. I chain-listened to the albums, read endless books, watched the movies and recited Beatles’ lore to anyone within earshot. “Oh dear,” said my mum one morning, as I reeled off an account of how a 40-piece orchestra improvised the rising crescendo in A Day in the Life, “you’ve become a Beatles bore.”Maybe I’m Amazed opens with John Harris’s 15-year-old son, James, ecstatically absorbed in a...

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6 d. ago Reading the same bedtime story could be the key to your child's development

Eight out of ten parents say they have had to re-read the same book to their child at least once, with the typical little one asking for the same story to be read to them 416 times a year

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7 d. ago 'A superb, surprisingly propulsive novel': The Literary Fiction to read now

Claire Allfree reviews the best literary fiction out now.

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7 d. ago 'Compelling and horrifying': The best the Crime novels to read now

Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best Crime novels out now.

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9 d. ago Best new books to read, from Anne Tyler to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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1 week ago Here's the surprising reason why so many men cheat on their pregnant partners

Read an exclusive extract from psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld's new book 'Affairs'.

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1 week ago Forty minutes after my wife gave birth I slept with another woman

Read an exclusive extract from psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld's new book 'Affairs'.

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1 week ago 'Forty minutes after his wife gave birth he was sleeping with another woman'

Read an exclusive extract from psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld's new book 'Affairs'.

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1 week ago ‘More are published than could ever succeed’: are there too many books?

While some say the rise of the self-publishing model is damaging the industry, others feel it gives authors a fairer dealThe complaint that there are too many books is not a new one. “My son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end,” reads one line in Ecclesiastes, written at least 2,000 years before the invention of the printing press.Now the bestselling author Bill Bryson has added his voice to the millennia-old chorus. There are 200,000 books published annually in the UK alone, “more books than you could possibly read,” the writer of Notes from a Small Island told the Times. He is not sure that the growth in self-publishing, in particular, is “a healthy development”. He said he gets sent “a lot of self-published books, and most of the time it is just some anonymous person’s life, and it is of no interest.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Atmospheric and assured': The Literary Fiction you should read now

Stephanie Cross reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

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2 w. ago 'I reversed my social media 'brainrot' after picking up this common hobby'

Are you suffering from 'brainrot'? In a bid to read more books in 2025, I've managed to improve several aspects of my life span in a multitude of unexpected ways

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3 w. ago Torrey Peters on life after writing a hit novel: ‘It had a very chilling effect on my writing’

Author of Detransition, Baby found success and pushback she never anticipated and now returns with a provocative collection of storiesAuthor Torrey Peters’ mind has imagined everything from a future virus that turns everyone trans to a crossdressing fetishist in a poreless silicone suit, but the premise of her new novel, Stag Dance, sounded too bizarre even for her. “If I hadn’t read it in a book I wouldn’t have believed it,” she told me during a lengthy conversation about her life and work. “It’s so over the top. It’s literally an upside down triangle. That’s a little too on the nose.”The triangle Peters refers to is one that is made out of fabric, and that loggers in the early part of the last century used to affix to their crotches in order to denote that they had changed their sex to female for the purposes of dances held deep in the wilderness. This is a fact that Peters uncovered while reading original texts about logging culture while developing the unique lexicon that she em...

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3 w. ago Torrey Peters on life after a hit novel: ‘It had a very chilling effect on my writing’

Author of Detransition, Baby found success and pushback she never anticipated and now returns with a provocative collection of storiesAuthor Torrey Peters’ mind has imagined everything from a future virus that turns everyone trans to a crossdressing fetishist in a poreless silicone suit, but the premise of her new novel, Stag Dance, sounded too bizarre even for her. “If I hadn’t read it in a book I wouldn’t have believed it,” she told me during a lengthy conversation about her life and work. “It’s so over the top. It’s literally an upside down triangle. That’s a little too on the nose.”The triangle Peters refers to is one that is made out of fabric, and that loggers in the early part of the last century used to affix to their crotches in order to denote that they had changed their sex to female for the purposes of dances held deep in the wilderness. This is a fact that Peters uncovered while reading original texts about logging culture while developing the unique lexicon that she em...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump warns Canada will pay 'price so big it will be in history books' in latest threat

Donald Trump raged against Canada in a new social media post and vowed to make the country pay a 'financial price so big' that it 'will be read about in history books for many years to come'

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3 w. ago William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’

Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisisOne day 51 years ago, out in the wilds of New Mexico, Kathelin Gray asked a question of her hero, the writer and artist William S Burroughs, whom she had just met. “William, I have read your books and I must know: what is your attitude to women?”The question had been eating away at Gray for the best part of a decade. As a teenage babysitter, she read Burroughs’ novel The Naked Lunch and was blown away by it. “The very yuckiness of the imagery, the critique of predatory capitalism, the degrading sex and violence – all that spoke to me,” she says. Continue reading...

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