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The Rolling Stone will play a lighthouse keeper in Three Incestuous Sisters, joining a cast including Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley and Saoirse Ronan

What would Trump think of Gilgamesh? And why are 19th-century classics so popular among young people? Writers on why we need the novel more than ever

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, pulled off an ‘incredible double feat’ in succeeding as ‘both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel’

Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize

Frank Cottrell-Boyce tells MPs to focus on early-years reading, with more support for parents and nursery workers

Irish novelist will publish Intermezzo through November Books after rejecting translation offer from publisher with ties to Israeli military

• Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’

Mordecai Kurz argues tech oligarchs erode democracy through monopolies – and predicts how the trend may end

The historian won $50,000 for her nonfiction book Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions, which judges praised as deeply researched, ‘highly original’ and ‘vividly alive’

With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves