Artist Phil Shaw tells ‘the story so far’ in an ongoing series he calls ‘Shelf Isolation‘. My only gripe is that author Stephen King is spelled incorrectly! (unless it was intentional for some reason?) For those that might have difficulty reading the book titles in the image I have transcribed it below: The English patient […]
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Woman Forced to Remove Dying Tree, Turns It Into Tiny Library Instead
When city workers of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho told Sharalee Armitage Howard they would have to remove a huge 110-year-old tree from her front yard, she was saddened. Determined to preserve whatever she could of the beautiful tree, she decided to turn the tree’s trunk into a free neighbourhood library with the help of the nonprofit […]
Anti-Trump bros defend children’s book by posting topless selfies
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The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump
Truth decay has been spreading for decades. How can we stop alternative facts from bringing down democracy, asks Michiko Kakutani Two of the most monstrous regimes in human history came to power in the 20th century, and both were predicated on the violation and despoiling of truth, on the knowledge that cynicism and weariness and […]
‘Hurtful’ Harper Lee and Mark Twain dropped from Minnesota curriculum
To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn to be dropped from Duluth area classes because of uncomfortable atmosphere their use of racial slurs creates ‘Hurtful’ Harper Lee and Mark Twain dropped from Minnesota curriculum To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn to be dropped from Duluth area classes because of uncomfortable atmosphere their use of […]
Some of that explosive book on Trump will be proved wrong. Here’s what won’t.
Donald and Melania Trump return to Washington DC on January 1.Image: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/REX/Shutterstock It’s safe to say that Fire and Fury, which lived up to its title in the way it hit bookstores Friday, is not the most rigorously fact-checked book in history. The author of the tome that has set Washington ablaze, Michael […]
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature 2017
The British author behind books including Man Booker winner The Remains of the Day takes the award for his novels of great emotional force The English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his novels of great emotional force, which it said […]
Terry Pratchett’s unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller
Unpublished works are lost for ever with crushing of computer hard drive as the late fantasy novelist had instructed The unfinished books of Sir Terry Pratchett have been destroyed by a steamroller, following the late fantasy novelists wishes. Pratchetts hard drive was crushed by a vintage John Fowler & Co steamroller named Lord Jericho at […]
Unlearning the myth of American innocence
The long read: When she was 30, Suzy Hansen left the US for Istanbul and began to realise that Americans will never understand their own country until they see it as the rest of the world does My mother recently found piles of my notebooks from when I was a small child that were filled […]
Jane Austen teen author before her time
Far from being the epitome of genteel propriety, her earliest fiction reveals an anarchic spirit with a disdain for authority to match any modern adolescent Teenagers had not yet been invented in the late 1780s, when the young is available from the Guardian Bookshop for 7.64 Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/18/jane-austen-teen-author-before-her-time