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From Arsène Lupin to Tintin: Paris's cultural winter warmers

Eve Jackson looks at cultural activities in Paris to lift your spirits at the start of the new year, from an escape game where you step into the shoes of famous French gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin at Paris's Opéra Garnier, to an immersive adventure with Belgian comic book star "Tintin"…

France 24

Magpie Murders' "disgusting" anagram

Author Anthony Horowitz tells Salon about avoiding a bad word, a Sherlock Holmes inspiration and what comes next

Salon

Designer creates prints of Irish lighthouses inspired by his boyhood hero Tintin

Bert Dufour has travelled more than 2,000km creating colour prints of the beacons around Ireland’s coastline.

The Independent UK

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Brussels tries to cool locals’ anger over ‘racist’ street murals – with QR codes

City authorities hope to soothe those who are ‘deeply shocked’ by the comic-strip trail of Belgium’s rich history

The Guardian - UK

‘In the place of creation there was only fear’: Oliver Mol rides to recovery in his memoir Train Lord

Oliver Mol’s Train Lord is a sequence of personal essays journeying around and into a ten-month episode of intense physical and psychic pain. Yet from the opening page of this compelling work, we are carried along by a humour and vitality that reads as courage.

The Conversation

Anthony Horowitz: ‘These days, writers do have to self-censor’

The bestselling author and TV writer is about to release his 56th book. He speaks to Hannah Stephenson about the role of social media in spreading ‘harmful’ views, his belief that writers are self-censoring, and how his wife Hill is his most important critic

The Independent UK

Anthony Horowitz on cancel culture and the fear of offending

‘People seem to take offence a great deal more easily than they used to,’ says the bestselling author and TV writer,

The Independent UK

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Best books to gift for the literary person in your life

Unleash their inner bookworm with these special edition books and literary treats

Evening Standard

Steven Spielberg is up for another Oscar: We ranked all 33 of his movies, from worst to No. 1 best

Forty-two years ago a little-known, 30-something actor named Steven Spielberg played a Cook County Assessor clerk in “The Blues Brothers.” He had a few lines, such as “Can I help you?” and “Here is your receipt.” His on-screen career came and went so fast you never noticed. But that filmmaking…

Chicago Tribune

Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper obituary

Other Lives: Founder of the Open University’s publishing division and co-translator of Hergé’s Tintin books

The Guardian - UK

Viet Thanh Nguyen: ‘I didn’t notice the racism of Tintin’

The Pulitzer prize-winning novelist on the depiction of Vietnamese people, the fun in Voltaire’s Candide and memorable masturbation scenes

The Guardian - UK

Belgium releases ‘world’s coolest’ passport with the Smurfs and Tintin

‘Brb moving to Belgium,’ writes one fan

The Independent UK

Tintin’s world adventure: comic strip hero joins the Smurfs on new Belgian passport

Designs for official documents celebrate the country’s heritage – and are hard to forge

The Guardian - UK

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