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UNBELIEVABLE: Joseph conrad - The Untold Story

Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part two

Your 20s can be an intense decade. In the words of Taylor Swift, those years are “happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time”. Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time. We asked 20 of our academic…

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From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show authors at their most vulnerable

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‘Chipocalypse Now’: Is the Trump administration culturally illiterate?

This weekend, Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself threatening to wage war on Chicago, a Democratic city he has targeted as next up in his immigration and crime crackdown. However, the image reveals how little he gets the movie reference he is co-opting. And not for the first…

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Guide to the classics: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

In our guide to the classics series, experts explain key works of literature

The Conversation

Gurnaik Johal: ‘I had no idea Zadie Smith was such a big deal!’

The author on a brilliant biography of Buster Keaton, coming round to Joseph Conrad, and marathon training with Karl Ove Knausgård

The Guardian - UK

Hearts of Darkness: A Film-Maker’s Apocalypse review – Francis Ford Coppola and the mother of all meltdowns

Coppola said his masterpiece Apocalypse Now ‘is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam’ – this superb film shows how little he was exaggerating

The Guardian - UK

10 essential Vietnam War movies that left a lasting impact

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across not just one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, but has led filmmakers for the past half century to reckon with its complicated legacy

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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

Woman & Home

Hisham Matar: ‘I learned English by listening to Jane Austen audiobooks’

The British-Libyan author on Hemingway’s craft, finding comfort in Joseph Conrad, and spending six months drowning in Austen

The Guardian - UK

The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione

A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on the streets of the world’s financial capital.

The Conversation

Five of the best books translated from Polish

The wide breadth of Polish humour and humanity is all here, from reportage and absurdist satire to historical epics and soulful poetry

The Guardian - UK

One Another by Gail Jones review – a writer’s obsession with Joseph Conrad

Jones’s latest novel is complex and delicate, charting echoes in the lives of a PhD student in 90s Cambridge and the Heart of Darkness author, who she is fascinated by

The Guardian - AU

‘Bold’, ‘extremely fun’, ‘luminously written’: the best Australian books out in March

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU

Your Weekender reads: chefs' Christmas feasts; Benjalu; blacksmiths are back; Tom Jones

Newcastle Herald Weekender: unmissable reads Saturday, December 9

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Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop review – a colonial obsession

A gripping semi-historical imagining of the memories and experiences of a French naturalist in 18th-century Africa

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Butcher’s Crossing’: Nicolas Cage keeps the madness under control in tightly spun Western

Actor mesmerizes as obsessive hunter at home where the buffalo roam.

The Guardian - UK

From Peaky Blinders to Band of Brothers: it’s Stephen Graham’s 20 best TV roles ever

His impeccable taste has seen him star in incredible shows from Line of Duty to This Is England. We rank his performances

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Look back at Giorgio Napolitano: learn the limits of dogma and how good leaders can change lives

The former Italian president was a communist who learned that the common good involves compromise, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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The 6 most glaring edits to Roald Dahl’s books by publisher Puffin

Author’s children’s stories have been rewritten to remove language deemed problematic

The Independent UK

The 6 most glaring edits to Roald Dahl’s books by publisher Puffin

Author’s children’s stories have been rewritten to remove language deemed problematic

The Guardian - UK

Paul Theroux: ‘Writing is a blood sport. One does have differences with people’

The prolific novelist and travel writer is 81 but shows no signs of slowing down. He talks about adventure, criticism… and that memoir by his ex-wife

The Guardian - UK

Agent behind James Bond spy Vesper Lynd given new role in UK-Poland relations

Wartime operative Krystyna Skarbek, lauded by Churchill, will serve as a symbol of the cultural ties between the allies

The National (Scotland)

Sorcha Dallas tells how Alasdair Gray's art permeated Glasgow's West End

ALAN Riach: Sorcha, could you tell us first about your earliest encounters with Alasdair Gray and his work? Where did you first meet him? How did…

The Guardian - UK

Trouble in mind: the best film, music, TV, literature and drama for a guilty conscience

From My Name Is Earl’s journey of redemption to Dave’s stirring origin story, our critics recommend art that deals with shame and regret

The Conversation

Four novelists, one ocean: how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world

Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps do.

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