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‘Books keep our minds free’: US prisons ban reading materials at alarming pace

New PEN America data reveals incarcerated persons are being robbed of magazines and even recipe books

The Guardian - US

The manufactured Hasan Minhaj scandal

What happens when a fact-checking story ignores the facts?

Salon

Weekend Blackout

Plus: Russian riot, Hasan Minhaj vs. The New Yorker, the Nancy Pelosi haunted house, and more...

Reason

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Cat Person review – tense adaptation of the viral dating short story

This deftly explored gen Z-meets-millennial courtship, based on Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker story, loses its way in a violent third act

The Guardian - UK

Cat Person terrified men and thrilled female readers – has anything changed?

Published in the white heat of the #MeToo moment, Kristen Roupenian’s viral ‘New Yorker’ short story about a bad date and dodgy sexual dynamics captured the zeitgeist, writes Jessie Thompson. This week, a film adaptation arrives in cinemas – what will audiences make of this tale of terrible sex, six…

The Independent UK

‘Needlessly misleading’: Comedian Hasan Minhaj rebuts New Yorker, says it omitted, misconstrued statements

On September 15, The New Yorker published an exposé on comedian Hasan Minhaj, claiming the racist and Islamophobic experiences he recounts as a South Asian Muslim American in his stand-up shows are “fabrications”.

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'The New Yorker' fact-checked Hasan Minhaj — now he's issued a rebuttal

The New Yorker's profile of Minhaj said he exaggerated or made up stories for effect in his comedy specials. Here's how the comic responded in a 21-minute video.

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Hasan Minhaj: Comedian denies using ‘fake racism’ to advance career, ‘I’m not a psycho’

Comedian admitted to exaggerating certain details in his stand-up routines in a September New Yorker profile

The Independent UK

‘I’m not a psycho’: Hasan Minhaj responds to New Yorker claims he told false stories

In a 20-minute video, the comedian disputes the magazine’s suggestion that he went too far in exaggerating his experiences

The Guardian - US

Hasan Minhaj: "I'm not a psycho"

The comedian was accused of falsifying parts of his life for his stand-up in a New Yorker profile in September

Salon

‘I’m not a psycho’: Hasan Minhaj denies using ‘fake racism’ to advance career

Comedian admitted to exaggerating certain details in his stand-up routines in a September New Yorker profile

The Independent UK

The problem with Ryan Murphy

The famed producer advocates for marginalized directors and actors. But sometimes his words and actions don't match

Salon

The New Yorker releases scathing cover of Trump and Biden with walkers

Magazine has stirred up controversy with an ‘ageist’ cover featuring US political leaders

The Independent UK

Daily Show should count Hasan Minhaj out

Debates over a comic's license to lie don't account for the importance of trust in the topical satire business

Salon

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Whoopi Goldberg defends Hasan Minhaj

Minhaj has been under fire after a New Yorker profile highlighted his embellished jokes in his stand-up specials

Salon

Four disappointing Hasan Minhaj "truths"

A New Yorker profile gives a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into Minhaj's comedy, and it's not pretty

The Guardian - UK

Claire Keegan: ‘I can’t explain my work. I just write stories’

The much-acclaimed Irish author of Small Things Like These on her quietly devastating new story and why George Saunders wouldn’t read it aloud for a podcast

The Guardian - UK

Bret Easton Ellis: ‘I connected with Quentin Tarantino’

The US author on discovering Stephen King, being inspired by Joan Didion, and losing himself in film criticism

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Bestselling books at Matariki

Steve Braunias describes the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list at Matariki Weekend

Newsroom.co.nz

NZ writer in New Yorker

Another accolade for NZ's most internationally recognised poet

The Guardian - US

Why an independent abortion clinic is suing Planned Parenthood

In a sign of tensions within the abortion rights community, a Manhattan clinic alleges the reproductive health behemoth poached one of its doctors, bringing it to the ‘point of implosion’

The Guardian - UK

‘Obsessed people make the best stories’: magazine journalist is Hollywood’s hot new thing

David Grann’s books are enormously popular with readers. Now Martin Scorsese’s epic adaptation of the writer’s 2017 masterpiece has premiered at Cannes

Salon

Harry Belafonte's song of rebellion

Looking back at the King of Calypso's legacy reveals the many ways that his work contributed to the good fight

The Conversation

Donald Trump and the dying art of the courtroom sketch

For the first time in its history, The New Yorker featured a courtroom sketch on its cover.

The Independent UK

Succession review, season 4 episode 3: Logan Roy reckoning will reduce you to unexpected tears

*Spoiler warning* Latest instalment, centred around Connor’s wedding, will go down in TV history

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