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I’ll admit it; I’ve become a late-in-life semicolon lover

Vonnegut hated them and Lincoln thought them ‘useful little chaps’. I, meanwhile, have come round to the charms of this controversial punctuation mark after years on the fence, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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10 Sci-Fi Books About Post-Human Evolution

Humanity needs a makeover.

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Texas judge blocks Ten Commandments in public schools with epic ruling that quotes Sonny & Cher, Kurt Vonnegut and Billy Graham

Several GOP-led states launch First Amendment battle to knock down firewall between church and state

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10 Sci-Fi Books Where Humanity Doesn’t Survive

The seven day forecast: total annihilation.

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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books About Time Travel (For When You’re Bored of Today)

Think today's problems will be solved tomorrow? Think again.

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The 10 Saddest Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Better tomorrows? These authors think otherwise.

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Folks Online List 28 Books That Blew Their Minds And Changed Their Lives

We should never underestimate reading because it can change your life as it did for people on Reddit who shared the names of the most impactful books they've ever read.

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The 10 Best Classic Sci-Fi Books (That Still Hold Up)

When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high school English. While not every novel hailed as…

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Voices: ‘I want to scream’: Readers rage over grammar gone wrong

YOUR VIEWS: From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their biggest grammar gripes

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Semicolons are becoming increasingly rare; their disappearance should be resisted

A recent study has found a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a longterm trend:

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Our best punctuation mark is dying out; people need to learn how to use it

IN FOCUS: The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ourselves on its usefulness as the chicest grammatical tool

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Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

The Guardian - UK

When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all

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Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game is back in stores after 70 years of obscurity and one sold-out print run

GHQ is a wargame—of sorts.

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Here’s Which Books You Should Read At Sydney’s Iconic Swimming Spots For Bookworm Baddie Energy

Nothing like the smell of ocean breeze, sunscreen and a fresh book.

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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan review – vividly crafted Depression-era tales

The US author’s debut collection from 1934 focuses on impoverished individuals in precarious times using language that is punchy and full of compassion

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Florida officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled

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‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’: Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

‘Some kid had credited a column of life advice in the Chicago Tribune to the writer of Slaughterhouse-Five. It then spread on a new invention called the world wide web. I thought it would make a great spoken word song’

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An Instagram Star Walks the Fine Line Between Self-Creation and Snake Oil

Social media influencer Caroline Calloway might not be a reliable narrator, but Scammer is an honest memoir nevertheless.

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Mieko Kawakami: ‘Franz Kafka is my comfort read’

The Japanese author on the humour of Kurt Vonnegut, the joys of James Joyce and translating Beatrix Potter

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A Cold Spell by Max Leonard review – from cube to crisis

A fascinating exploration of how ice has shaped human existence

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The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

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Digested week: what lies in the post-Wilko era?

Cold Girl Summer of 2023 is coming to an end and we are left with nowhere to fart around, as Kurt Vonnegut would say

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Why Kurt Vonnegut's advice to college graduates still matters today

Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver the famous “Wear Sunscreen” graduation speech published in the Chicago Tribune that was often mistakenly attributed to the celebrated author. But he could have.

The Guardian - UK

From Evil Dead Rise to Everything But the Girl: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s the latest instalment of the splattertastic franchise or the return of some electropop greats, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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