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Epstein, Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. It’s coming out months after her death
Giuffre told her publisher her ‘heartfelt wish’ was for the book to be released, ‘regardless’ of her circumstances.
- by Hillel Italie
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She’d finished her novel and was about to have a baby. Then Hollywood came calling
Book? Check. Baby? Check. Blockbuster? Check.
- by Melanie Kembrey
Opinion
WordPlay
I opened my radio show to listeners’ biggest peeves. The phone lines flooded
When it comes to malopropisms and tautologies, you have strong opinions.
- by David Astle
‘Forgive me if I’m not doing cartwheels’: Scepticism over AI payment breakthrough
Despite the agreement between unions and the tech giants to work on a model that would pay creatives for content mined by AI, the sector has its doubts.
- by Garry Maddox
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Literature
Book Reviews
What’s good, what’s bad, and what’s in between in literature this year? Here we review the latest titles.
Opinion
George Orwell
Animal Farm has turned 80, but we still don’t know who wrote the best line
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a crucial book for understanding rising authoritarianism. We need it more than ever.
- by Anna Funder
Looking for a new book? Here are 10 new titles to try
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
What literary satires reveal about the state of the publishing industry
Two recent novels featuring literary fraudsters comment on how fearfully difficult it is to scratch a living as a writer waiting for the big break.
- by Jane Sullivan
Drifters, vagrants and loners: a lyrical journey through Australia’s interior
The world through which an unnamed narrator journeys, accompanied by various companions, is one you can hear and smell.
- by Declan Fry
This yarn about the links between wool and war might surprise you
Australia’s large-scale sheep pastoralism and the northern hemisphere’s industrialisation of woollen textiles allowed the huge armies of the 20th century to exist, a new history argues.
- by Ken Haley
These personal portraits of extinct species may well make you cry
Feelings of grief are unavoidable when reading about the species that have disappeared due to human encroachment.
- by Simon Caterson