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The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art...
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Poem inspired by New York mugging wins top prize in National Poetry Competition
Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in...
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Ulysses’ Molly Bloom to be brought to life in video at Derry festival
Fiona Shaw, Cush Jumbo, Imelda Staunton and Miriam Margolyes to enact parts of novel’s concluding monologue...
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Rare copy of Mao’s Little Red Book expected to fetch more than £30,000
Early editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution...
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Open letter criticising PEN America’s stance on Israel-Gaza war reaches 500 signatories
Writers including Roxane Gay have called on the organisation to ‘wake up from its silent, tepid,...
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Bruce Willis’ wife writing book about being his caregiver after dementia diagnosis
Announcing her untitled book, set to be published in 2025, Emma Heming Willis recalls having ‘close...
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N Scott Momaday, Pulitzer-winning Native American novelist, dies aged 89
The Kiowa tribe member’s debut House Made of Dawn is credited as the starting point for...
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‘It’s a golden age’: poetry flourishes in Ukraine – but at a terrible price
Conflict has changed Ukrainian poetry and boosted interest at home and abroad, but several poets have...
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Five years and 2m copies later, self-published author lands UK book deal
Norfolk-based crime writer JM Dalgliesh topped the Amazon and Kindle bestsellers before being signed by a...
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Patti Smith ‘in good health’ after being hospitalised in Italy
Singer suffers sudden illness while on tour and cancels remainder of datesPatti Smith has been briefly...
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Arthur Conan Doyle secretly resented his Sherlock Holmes creation, says historian
Author blamed literary success of the fictional detective for his highbrow historical novels ‘lying unread’Arthur Conan...