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In memoirs by authors from Philip Roth to Michael Frayn, the Dad-Lit genre is always a little oedipal but there is also room for warmer feelings

The Guardian - UK

John Currin: ‘Misogyny’s kind of a dumb word. I don’t hate women. I hate men’

His paintings of nude women remain controversial yet sell for huge sums of money. Now with a new exhibition, 30 years after his first, the American artist talks inspirations, ‘the real history of art’ and the turning point in his life

The Guardian - UK

Peter Straub obituary

Award-winning horror writer whose novels included Julia, Ghost Story and the bestselling The Talisman with Stephen King

The Guardian - UK

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'The entire industry is based on hunches': is Australian publishing an art, a science or a gamble?

Jason Epstein was the publisher and editor of authors such as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. In his 2001 book, Book Business, he described how the once-relaxed Random House – where authors frequented the publishing office (and sometimes slept there), and where editors had stronger relationships…

The Conversation

Orlando Figes: ‘Gorbachev was a very sharp and likable person’

The award-winning historian on Putin’s cult of personality, why he loves Turgenev, and giving up on books after 20 pages

The Guardian - UK

Adam Levin’s latest big, huge novel throws Chicago into a giant sinkhole. After all, he lives in Florida now.

CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known…

Chicago Tribune

Biographer accused of rape gets book deal for memoir billed as warning tale of ‘cancel culture’

Allegations against Blake Bailey surfaced last April, two weeks after his biography on Philip Roth was published

The Independent UK

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Commentary: Why inappropriate books are the best kind

The house where I was raised had an open shelf rule. This meant my brother and I were allowed to read anything, no matter how inappropriate or beyond our years. We never had to ask.

Los Angeles Times

Death of a Ladies’ Man review – Gabriel Byrne charms in Philip Roth style dramedy

The Irish actor is compelling as a womanising professor who begins to realise his best days are over, with added Leonard Cohen

The Guardian - UK

James Ellroy: ‘Alcoholics Anonymous was good for hot tub parties in the 70s’

The author of LA Confidential and Black Dahlia on falling in love with a murder victim, not owning a computer and his new true-crime podcast series

The Guardian - UK

Penélope Cruz’s 20 best films – ranked!

On her 48th birthday, we look through the work of the charismatic Spanish film star, who was Oscar nominated this year for Parallel Mothers

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: quiet Kyoto, bootleg Philip Roth and Bake Off types

Guardian Australia’s weekday wrap of compelling stories and top writing, selected by lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman

The Guardian - AU

The extraordinary life of an illegal copy of Portnoy’s Complaint: ‘It’s a terrific Australian story’

In 1970, when Philip Roth’s novel was banned in Australia, a small group of people secretly printed hundreds of copies. Half a century later, only three have been found

The Guardian - AU

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