Books, authors and readers: a day at the Lisbon Book Fair ⊕⊕
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In Lisbon, June is about more than the popular saints’ festivities: it is also the month when Parque Eduardo VII turns into the country’s biggest bookshop. Ninety-six years after its first edition in…
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Books, authors and readers: a day at Lisbon Book Fair ⊕⊕
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June in Lisbon isn’t just about the Popular Saints festivities: it’s also when Parque Eduardo VII turns into the country’s biggest bookshop. Ninety‑six years after its first edition, in 1930, the Boo…
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There’s nostalgia to the New York/London duo’s lo-fi laptop sound, but their second album pushes them into vivid, weirder new territory
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Russian Customs Seize British Children’s Books as ‘Extremist Literature’ ⊕
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‘An uprising against loneliness’: why have football ultras become a cultural obsession? ⊖
A new documentary travels around the world to identify the roots of ultra-mania – the fan movement that’s part progressive and sometimes criminal
‘Ultras” – hardcore football fans renowned for their s…
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Books changed my life, says Queen's first reading hero ⊕⊕
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Selina Brown, from Birmingham, says she is delighted to be the UK's first National Reading Hero.
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Books, malls and cars: where the physical world still rules ○
Many consumers are resisting, even turning back the digital revolution
‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick ⊕⊕
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‘They didn’t even read the book’: Palestinian American children’s authors censored in US ⊕
Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’
Jenan Matari had just begun promoting her debut children’s book this summer when the cancel…
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‘A psychological umbilical cord’: Why fiction loves difficult mothers ○
As the film of Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk is released, author Abigail Bergstrom explores the literary fascination with inaccessible, emotionally distant maternal figures
‘My love for my mother is l…