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When's the last time you covfefed? Illustration: Simon Letch.

In the post-literate world of the Oval Office, language is the new chew toy.

New Boy: Othello in an American school

New Boy. By Tracey Chevalier.

Tracy Chvalier's Othello is set in a Washington DC school in the mid-1970s: Othello is a Ghanaian boy called Osei; Desdemona becomes Dee, who dares befriend him; and Ian is the bully who seeks to destroy their love.

Turning Pages

Rumours of the demise of print books have been greatly exaggerated.

Australians are still reading, and defying predictions of doom for the printed word.

Spoils: Powerful novel of war and our choices

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Cassandra Wigheard of the US Army, not quite yet out of her teens, is fighting in Iraq in 2003. When she and two fellow soldiers find themselves under fire, all three are taken prisoner.