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Roxane Gay  
I’m trying to move further left because that’s the only way that we’re gonna achieve change
I’m trying to move further left because that’s the only way that we’re gonna achieve change
Michel Faber on the torture of tinnitus  
Like the brakes of a train never coming to a stop
Like the brakes of a train never coming to a stop
Teju Cole  
Being avant garde isn’t about being unreadable
Being avant garde isn’t about being unreadable
The books of my life  
John Niven: ‘My comfort read? Alan Clark’s diaries’
John Niven: ‘My comfort read? Alan Clark’s diaries’
Amy Mae Baxter  
Literary magazines can be life-changing – but they need more support
Literary magazines can be life-changing – but they need more support
Audiobook of the week  
Oh Miriam! by Miriam Margolyes audiobook review – eye-watering candour
Oh Miriam! by Miriam Margolyes audiobook review – eye-watering candour
 
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Books of the week
A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel review – B-sides and rarities
A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel review – B-sides and rarities
A posthumous collection of the Booker-winner’s nonfiction shows her lesser-known works to be the equal of her hits
The Pole and Other Stories by JM Coetzee review – a late love affair
Coetzee’s purist approach to storytelling strikes a chord in this novella and five tales
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair review – escape artist
A courageous memoir of breaking free from a father’s oppression – and how poetry can be a salve against chaos
A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett review – newly discovered early stories
A collection of comic tales published pseudonymously in the 1970s and 80s is slight, but shows sparks of the brilliance to come
Eve by Cat Bohannon review – long overdue evolutionary account of women and their bodies
The American writer traces the female form back to our ‘true ancestors’ in an epic combination of science and speculation that places women at the centre of history
Spotlight
Hard stares, tea with the Queen and so many marmalade sandwiches
65 years of Paddington Bear  
Hard stares, tea with the Queen and so many marmalade sandwiches
Inspired by a lone teddy in a shop, Michael Bond’s courteous and clumsy hero from Peru has struck a chord with every generation. What is the secret to his enduring popularity?
Talking points and news
Authors join call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel
Authors join call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel
More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investments
Keith Giffen, comic book artist and writer, dies aged 70
Creator of Rocket Raccoon, star of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie series, and the DC superhero Blue Beetle died after suffering a stroke on Monday
Spotify’s new audiobook streaming could have ‘devastating effect’, says Society of Authors
The industry body says the music giant’s move to make more than 150,000 titles available has not been discussed with authors and may compete with sales
Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about being stabbed in 2022
The author describes the book, subtitled Meditations After an Attempted Murder, as ‘a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art’
Imprisoned Uyghur academic named 2023 PEN writer of courage
Professor and global expert on Uyghur folklore Rahile Dawut was reportedly sentenced to life in prison after going missing six years ago
Author Arundhati Roy may face prosecution in India over 2010 speech
Top official sanctions case against Booker prize-winning novelist for comments about Kashmir
From the archive
Children's stories that can still make you cry
Children's stories that can still make you cry

Imogen Russell Williams: A few of the books I sobbed over in childhood can still raise a tear. Anyone else?

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