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Rumaan Alam: ‘Reading JD Salinger now is like running into that particular ex at a cafe’

The US author on his early love of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the genius of Judy Blume, and finding perfection in Agatha Christie and Gustave Flaubert

The Guardian - UK

I’ve read 24 books this year, and these are the ones to buy for Prime Day 2025

Literary prices have been slashed for the annual summer sales extravaganza, and this bookworm curated a selection of the best

Evening Standard

Which galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way? The Saturday quiz

From Tim Martin’s pubs and Wardle and Makin’s shops to a computer glitch and minor illness, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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The best closing lines from books - from poignant final passages to chilling closing sentences

These brilliant closing lines will stay with you long after you put the book down

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32 Celebrities With the Most Private of Private Lives

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Marie Claire

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard

Best light novels for a relaxing read

Relaxing reads for cosy evenings in

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24 of the best-selling novels of all time to read in 2024

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Joyce Maynard: 'I wouldn't recommend being published when you're a teenager'

Our guest is an acclaimed writer with a career spanning more than fifty years. In that time she's published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, including the memoir "At Home in the World" – where she spoke of her relationship with "The Catcher in the Rye" author JD…

France 24

How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs

How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more

Metal Hammer

Mystique, minimalism and cataclysm: Cormac McCarthy's fiction was a dark counter-narrative to American optimism

It is testimony to Cormac McCarthy’s reputation as a writer of dark and violent fictions that his publishers should explicitly have stated in their press release on Tuesday that his death was due to “natural causes”.

The Conversation

Will high school "classics" be replaced?

Efforts to diversify the authors of high school canon is facing both backlash and approval

Salon

Peppa’s new parents, Marco Polo’s home and Argentina’s money – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Rare signed edition of The Catcher in the Rye on sale for £225,000

JD Salinger did not want his friends cashing in, so inscribed copy of classic novel is one of the hardest titles for collectors to acquire

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30 years ago, the worst Marvel movie ever almost changed the course of superhero cinema

'Captain America' was one of the first Marvel movies of the '90s — it would be a clear indicator of what fans could expect from their '90s superhero movies.

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