1. Keke Palmer isn't worried about Keke Palmer. Why is everyone else?

   LA Times » 1 week ago

   Actor Keke Palmer, of 'Akeelah and the Bee' and 'Nope' fame, used to let other people control her story. No longer, as she explains in her new memoir 'Master of Me.'...

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1. Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate’s mystical account of where we begin and end

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   In this republished novella from 2000 about a fisherman and his son, the Norwegian writer captures the puzzlement and wonder of the human conditionFew writers working today capture the liminality of life as viscerally as the Norwegian 2023 Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse, an...

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1. The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel review – the great scientist who created her own school

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   A fresh and feminist study of the pioneering Nobel laureate reveals her impact on the women she mentored and set on the path to prominenceMarie Curie carried out some of her most pathbreaking work under an actual glass ceiling and the toxic particles that swirled beneath ...

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1. We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a return to God… by way of the Brothers Grimm and The Lion King

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The Canadian psychologist’s zealous exegesis of the Bible as a moral rulebook for life is long-winded and out of touchThere is an oddly entertaining, if largely unenlightening, debate available online &...

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1. Paul Bailey obituary

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   Writer best known for the novel Gabriel’s Lament and a sympathetic biography of the brothel madam Cynthia PayneThe writer Paul Bailey, who has died aged 87, believed in ignoring surfaces or trying to see past them – to identify what was special about the ordinary and over...

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1. ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm As anyone who has tried pointing their phone’s camera at a menu in a foreign country lately will know...

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1. Poem of the week: The Kurdish Musician by Mimi Khalvati

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   An émigré player’s artistry sings through a London street, rising over many barriersThe Kurdish MusicianShe is swaddled in pink, sky-blue and veiled in a gold hejab that with every chime of her santoor ...

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1. HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   Some nonfiction backlist titles will be used to train artificial intelligence with authors’ permissionPublisher HarperCollins will allow some of its titles to be used to train AI models, with the permission of authors.The company “has reached an agreeme...

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1. Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   The writer was also a renowned academic and poet as well as being one of the leading figures of second wave feminismSandra Gilbert, the American poet and literary critic who co-authored the landmark second wave feminist text The Madwoman in the Attic, has died aged 87.<...

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1. Blackbird Singing at Dusk by Wendy Pratt review – the great smells of the north and nature

   The Guardian » 2 days ago

   Grief rubs shoulders with greasy chip pans in a humorous and heartfelt celebration of the coastal working classAn ode to fish and chips, corn dollies and driving Ringtons tea vans, Wendy Pratt’s seventh poetry collection is a greasy but glorious celebration of the coastal...

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