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The Nigerian author’s new book is her first fictional novel since 2013’s Americanah.

She feared she’d never write another novel. But criticism won’t silence this literary superstar

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count has been billed as “a publishing event 10 years in the making”.

  • Richard Jinman

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“I’ve never understood expensive handbags. I just think that’s a tax on stupidity.”

‘A tax on stupidity’: The one extravagance writer Debra Oswald has never understood

The writer and creator of hit TV show Offspring on being careful with money, researching gruesome deaths – and when she’d commit murder.

  • Benjamin Law
Author Laura Jean McKay is concerned about a request to use her work to train AI.

‘Death warrant’: Australian publisher slammed over author AI request

Black Inc. has offered its writers a 50/50 split of net receipts from the deal, which would allow their books to be used to train artificial intelligence.

  • Hannah Hammoud
There’s a broad selection of new books to read this March.

A controversial artwork, a reckoning and a posthumous release: 12 new books to delve into

The weather may be starting to cool down, but the books are heating up. Here are some of the best being published in March.

  • Jason Steger
“I feel like being in your late 40s is wildly interesting,” says Sittenfeld.

Being a person is so weird: Curtis Sittenfeld on life, luck and middle age

The author’s new collection of short stories features sliding doors aplenty – the what-ifs, the should-haves and the could-haves.

  • Melanie Kembrey
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (seen here in 1990), who won the Novel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Sometimes a book-to-TV adaptation is like imagination coming to life

Rereading Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude while watching the Netflix adaptation is surprisingly satisfying.

  • Jane Sullivan
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Failures, missteps and absolute stinkers: Hollywood’s biggest flops

Tim Robey’s book explores some of Tinseltown’s least successful films.

  • Tom Ryan
Pioneering tech journalist Kara Swisher.

Meet the tech journalist Elon Musk says is threatening his DOGE team

Kara Swisher’s memoir about her decades spent interviewing the biggest names in the tech industry was fascinating when it was released a year ago. Now that the US is seemingly run by tech billionaires, it’s essential reading.

  • Kylie Northover
Agatha Christi at Winterbrook House in 1957.

Agatha Christie’s work is everywhere – so why do we overlook the woman herself?

As we approach 50 years since her death, it’s easy to lose sight of how remarkable the author was both in her life and work.

  • Elizabeth Flux
Hadi Matar has been found guilty of the attempted murder of author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack.

Man convicted of attempted murder in attack on Salman Rushdie

Hadi Matar, who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist onstage at a New York arts institute in 2022, faces up to 25 years in prison.

  • Aleksandra Michalska and Jonathan Allen

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