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Judges praise Naomi Alderman’s novel in which women are able to kill men with a single touch, with debut author Ayòbámi Adébáyò also in the running
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Poet and dissident who denounced Stalin died ‘surrounded by relatives and close friends’ in Oklahoma, where he taught at the University of Tulsa
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In July 1958, Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested for interracial marriage. Photographer Grey Villet spent time with them, years before their case brought down the law. Here are some of his images of the heroic lovers
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Barack Obama prepares to write his memoir on the South Pacific island of Tetiaroa, once owned by Marlon Brando. Here’s where other authors found inspiration
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