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The memoir that changed my mind – 11 experts share a perspective‑shifting read

Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, memoirs are the moments where that shift happens, through an argument that unsettles us or an inspiring story that re-frames how we see the world. We…

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The Family Man by James Lasdun review – the killings that shocked America

Alex Murdaugh’s conviction for the murder of his wife and son was recently overturned. Where does the truth lie?

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One UK journalist’s close access to Hitler carries a warning about Trump’s media restrictions

Interviewing Hitler opens in Linz, Austria, in 1938: the year before the outbreak of World War Two. Adolf Hitler, who was born in Austria, has just announced the Anschluss, the forced political union of Germany and his birth country. Since seizing power in 1933, he has been overseeing Germany’s rearmament…

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Over 100 issues, Quarterly Essay has generated news, controversy – and the occasional explosive scene

Perhaps the most profane opening paragraph in the history of Australian journalism can be found in one of Black Inc.’s avowedly highbrow Quarterly Essays. “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck us,” Kevin Rudd is quoted as saying, in David Marr’s June 2010 edition of the essay series. Profane, yes,…

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Friday essay: as the legacy media have dumbed down, The New Yorker has dumbed up

Like many, I entered The New Yorker through the cartoon door. The first cartoon I loved, and remember to this day, featured a New Yorker staple – two guys sitting in a bar – with one saying to the other: “I wish just once someone would say to me, ‘I…

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10 books culture editor Hannah Silver recommends this winter

Lacking inspiration over what to read next? Wallpaper* culture editor, Hannah Silver, shares her favourite books

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Helen Garner: ‘People would give me death stares in the street’

The novelist and nonfiction writer on her love of courtroom drama, the trials of cancel culture and why she wouldn’t have been a good psychoanalyst

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'The unlooked-for and idiosyncratic was her stock-in-trade': last words from the unclassifiable Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm, who died in 2021 at the age of 86, left her readers this “memoir”, Still Pictures, an apt and fascinating coda to a celebrated and provocative life’s work.

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Still Pictures by Janet Malcolm review – a great writer’s photographic memories

A posthumous collection of essays, sparked by old photos of her Czech refugee family and friends, lucidly sketches a lost world

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Cutting and incisive: Memories from Janet Malcolm, one of the great émigré writers

SHE was born Jana Wienerová in Prague, 1934.

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Is it ever okay for journalists to lie to get a story?

In a time of falling trust in the news media, it is vital journalists do not engage in news-gathering methods that further harm their credibility. Thanks to the rise of social media, misinformation and disinformation are rampant. Trust in news matters, so we can tell fact from fiction. Without it,…

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Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview; Joan Didion: The Last Interview review – crafty to the end

In these revealing late-life chats, the two doyennes of US journalism display all the acuity and intellectual toughness that made them household names

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The big picture: the pursuit of happiness in Playland, California

Between work as a petroleum engineer and a clinical psychologist, photographer Chauncey Hare documented suburban life in the US

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