Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

MYSTERIOUS: Vladimir nabokov - What They Never Told You

Vladimir review: Rachel Weisz’s sociopathic professor falls for Leo Woodall in ‘post-woke’ drama

3/5 This eight-part adaptation of Julia May Jonas’s bestselling novel is brutally muted by the Netflix aesthetic

The Independent UK

Craft beer has gone stale: let’s hear it for age-old favourites

There’s nothing wrong with a good, hoppy IPA, but perhaps it’s time to reappraise classic styles of beer again

The Guardian - UK

Who Is Lolita? Inside Every 'Pedophile's Fictional Dream Girl' That Turned Up In Epstein Files

Newly released Epstein estate photos feature literal Lolita quotes and chilling text exchanges, raising urgent questions about symbolism, abuse, and elite connections in the ongoing release of Epstein files.

International Business Times UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Democrats release new Epstein photos ahead of DoJ transparency deadline

Images, undated and uncaptioned, include lines from Lolita written on woman’s body and show Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky

The Guardian - US

‘I took literary revenge against the people who stole my youth’: Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu

As the first part of his acclaimed Blinding trilogy is released in the UK, the novelist talks about communism, Vladimir Nabokov – and those Nobel rumours

The Guardian - UK

Jeffrey’s Epstein’s reading list: Emails reveal pedophile’s Amazon picks from ‘Lolita’ to Woody Allen

‘To say I'm shocked is an understatement,’ one of the authors told The Independent upon learning his book was in Epstein’s library

The Independent UK

Friday essay: trauma memoirs can help us understand the unthinkable. They can also be art

Content warning: readers are advised this article talks about sexual abuse and child sexual abuse.

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read

From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

The Guardian - UK

Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart review – is this the future for America?

Set a decade from now, this coming-of-age caper offers a child’s-eye view of family troubles in a ‘post-democracy’ USA

The Guardian - UK

Bawdy, playful and intellectually ambitious: your guide to the 2025 Miles Franklin shortlist

All dull prizes shortlist books that are alike; every important prize recognises books that are remarkable in their own way. This is what makes them worth paying attention to, what makes following them fun – and this year’s Miles Franklin Award shortlist is no exception. All six books hail from…

The Conversation

‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm

As Neige Sinno’s critically acclaimed memoir about being sexually abused by her stepfather is published in English, she reveals how writing her story has helped set her free

The Guardian - UK

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

William Boyd: ‘Ulysses is the novel to end all novels’

The ‘Gabriel’s Moon’ author on which of his 18 novels means the most to him, and the book he once loved obsessively

The Independent UK

Future lawyers learn key lessons from studying poetry in parks in this course

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

The Guardian - UK

No, Abrdn, you can’t bully a company

Brief letters: Silly company name | Gendered assumptions | Hard geezer’s drink | Spooning and forking

The Guardian - UK

‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will

The Colombian Nobel laureate’s children have published Until August a decade after their father’s death, despite the author’s wish that it should be destroyed

Evening Standard

24 of the best-selling novels of all time to read in 2024

Increase your cultural capital and expand your worldview

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Wallpaper

From Nabokov to Miffy: Liu Ye on his cultural references

Artist Liu Ye tells us what inspires him, as his exhibition ‘Naive and Sentimental Painting’ is on show in London

The Guardian - UK

The Variations by Patrick Langley review – hearing the voices of the dead

There’s a Nabokovian intrigue to this thrilling tale of a composer and her grandson with the same mysterious gift

The Guardian - UK

‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories

The Independent UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Great Expectations to Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Conversation

Lolita: why this 'vivid, illicit' portrait of a pervert matters at a time of endless commodification of young girls

In an occasional series, our authors make the case for or against controversial books.

The Independent UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Conversation

White Noise review – director Noah Baumbach skilfully captures Don Delillo's 'unadaptable' novel

Never one to downplay the power of film, Stanley Kubrick once said that “almost every novel could be successfully adapted”. He carried this confidence into his own filmmaking, working not from original screenplays, but from adaptations of novels as different as William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical romp Barry Lyndon (1844) and…

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the House Oversight Committee

American Library Association

26 stories

Wolf Hall

15 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.