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F-shaped blurbs, seducing chatbots, nicking quotes off GoodReads and paying BookTokers: in today's Guardian I investigated the book world's tricks of the trade.
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We are delighted to unveil the cover for ‘The Refugee Chronciles’ by Evgeny Shtorn, publishing this October 🎲🎲🎲 A darkly funny diary. A life lived in limbo. A man left depending on the luck of the draw. Design by the brilliant Frontwards Design Pre-order here: skeinpress.com/product/the-...
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One PE firm owns Pyrex, Corelle, CorningWare, Instant Pot, Anchor Hocking, and Oneida. The pastel Instagram pans lose their nonstick between cooking cycle 30 and 60. A pan measured in months, priced like it's forever. Who owns your kitchen, and what's still worth buying 👇 tinyurl.com/2s3xc53m
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Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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This is what imperialists always do. They claim to love their country. They feed its people into the machine.
The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...
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I am begging @bsky.app to stop telling me every time a dog dies 😭😭😭
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Did you catch Rosaleen McDonagh on @2fm.rte.ie Mornings with the brilliant Doireann Garrihy ? They spoke about writing process, representation and of course #ContentiousSpaces Listen back: www.rte.ie/radio/2fm/2f... We're at the 28 minute mark 📻
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Every single day politicians and the media and billionaires are letting this shit happen. It’s ten years now, and half the country just keeps jumping on board with the racism and misogyny and warmongering and transphobia and corruption. Fucking hell. Morons
Trump: "They're all crooks. The Somalians. What they've done to Minnesota. The Somalians. They're crooked as hell. They're all crooks."