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Richard Osman and Jeanette Winterson among authors to publish ‘empty book’ in protest of AI using their work

Campaign arrives one week before ministers are due to deliver an update regarding proposed copyright reforms

The Independent UK

One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI

One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suits

The Guardian - UK

The kids are back – and so it’s time for my new school year’s resolutions

Now that summer’s over, I will stop eating cake every day, I will do a charity shop drop off, I will clean out the fridge. Promise, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Guardian - UK

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Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott

More than 200 writers request cessation of all trade until people of Gaza given adequate food, water and aid

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on coming-out tales: from A Boy’s Own Story to What It Feels Like for a Girl

Editorial: Groundbreaking memoirs continue to shape the history of LGBTQ+ rights

The Guardian - UK

BBC ‘defied’ Thatcher with ‘brave’ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, says author Jeanette Winterson

Lesbian coming-of-age drama came out at a time when former PM was seeking to stop positive portrayals of homosexuality

The Independent UK

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

The Guardian - UK

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Jeanette Winterson: ‘I’d like to go up in space as a very old lady and just be pushed out’

The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit author on being a good landlord to a grumpy ghost, her optimism about AI and the ideal size for cats

The Guardian - AU

For great stories, we need people, not AI

Letters: Readers respond to a piece by the author Jeanette Winterson in which she praises OpenAI’s metafictional short story

The Guardian - UK

Sydney writers’ festival 2025: tallying authors’ views on Israel-Gaza ‘tokenistic and unfortunate’, organisers say

After the shock resignation of the festival’s chair, the Sydney writers’ festival unveils its starry 2025 program in ‘an incredibly polarised environment’

The Guardian - AU

How the oil majors sabotaged Kyoto

A West End play reveals the way in which powerful vested interests brought about the demise of the climate protocol

The Guardian - UK

Labour to promise ‘access to the arts’ to widen involvement in creative industries

Starmer will set out new strategy for culture after analysis found 40% of recent British awards nominees were privately educated

The Guardian - UK

Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024

The UK literary festival unveils 29 taster events next year and plans to focus on ‘global themes and the impact of issues on the world’

The Guardian - UK

Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson review – uneasy ghost stories

Winterson weaves her own thoughts on the supernatural with fictional explorations of apps, avatars and AI

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The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of She’s A Killer by Kirsten McDougall and Murder On The Dance Floor by Shirley Ballas.

The Guardian - UK

Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson review – ghost stories that reinvigorate the supernatural

The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit author’s volume of spooky tales is a spirited mix of the witty, playful and poignant

The Independent UK

Nearly half UK adults believe LGBTQ+ representation important in storytelling – study

The YouGov survey highlights the need for diverse characters and creators.

The Conversation

Why do we find someone reading sexy?

A few years ago the dating website eHarmony concluded that profiles that included reading in their list of hobbies were more attractive to the opposite sex. Specifically, the data revealed that men who mentioned reading as one of their personal interests received 19% more messages, while for women, those who…

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The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about losing faith

Authors from Jeanette Winterson to William Shakespeare tell stories of people doubting not just God but everything that gives their life meaning

The Guardian - UK

AM Homes: ‘We want to believe that opportunity exists for women now; it does and it doesn’t’

The US author on trying to add a note of optimism to her work, getting advice from Jeanette Winterson, and her prescient new novel about a coup in Washington

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Undeclared War; Aids: The Unheard Tapes; Sherwood; Only Murders in the Building and more

Coders fight to save Britain in Peter Kosminsky’s masterly cyberdrama; lip-synced Aids testimonies hit home; and James Graham’s Sherwood draws to a thrilling close

The Guardian - UK

Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri review – the sanctuary of language

The novelist’s collection of essays on translation only hint at what led her to take refuge in Italian

Manchester Evening News

Former Corrie star set to appear at 2022 Libraries Festival

The TV star will be joined by the likes of Lemn Sissay and Jay Blades

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Hannan takes the bull by the horns ... in secret

Daniel Hannan hides identity when writing about bullfighting / Laura Bates on one way women are fighting back against cat calling / Ewan McGregor’s nightmare in Tangier / Jeanette Winterson on what the Royals and TikTok users share

The Guardian - UK

‘It takes your hand off the panic button’: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land 100 years on

TS Eliot’s modernist masterpiece has baffled and moved readers for a century. Now the poem has inspired a whole festival. Fans including Jeanette Winterson pin down its elusive, allusive power

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