FictionReviewA teenager escapes the drudgery of 80s Dublin through a relationship with an older woman in this auspicious fiction debut
Montpelier Parade is the debut novel by Karl Geary (right), a Dubliner who emigrated to New York in the late 80s at the age of 16, where he went on to live a life that was the antithesis of the one available to him back home – co-running the bar Sin-é, at which Jeff Buckley performed and Rufus Wainwright laments he didn’t, appearing in Madonna’s Sex book, becoming an actor and screenwriter.
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Turkey and Syria earthquake – latest news updates Adem Altan can’t compare the picture he took on a cold morning this week with any of the tens of thousands he has shot in his 41 years as a photojournalist.
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Behind the jokeEdinburgh festival 2014Hollywood only has two modes of East Asian character: Mr Miyagi or babbling madman. Why can't we be boring too? More coverage of the Edinburgh festival 2014
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I'm a little obsessed with how East Asian people are presented in the media. If one pops up on TV or in a film, I wait to see if the representation is offensive or patronising or ignorant – which it too often is.
BooksObituarySusan HillVivacious editor who brought wit and originality to her booksThe editor and writer Susan Hill, who has died of throat cancer aged 53, was not born Susan Hill, and it was a pity that another name had not been chosen, because, working in publishing, she had to start more conversations than she would have wished explaining that she was not Susan Hill the novelist. Her original name was Carmel Vermilion O'Leary, but she was adopted at a very early age and raised by a couple who, in later life, she never referred to as anything but "
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Philippe Dauman is to step down as CEO of Viacom. Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/ReutersPhilippe Dauman is to step down as CEO of Viacom. Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/ReutersViacom This article is more than 7 years oldViacom CEO Philippe Dauman to receive $72m payout as he departsThis article is more than 7 years oldExit leaves chairman Sumner Redstone, 93, in uncontested control of media conglomerate, reportedly ending lawsuits over billionaire’s competence
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US elections 2024Biden offers optimistic new year’s message as Trump lashes outPresident touts US job gains and says his resolution is ‘to come back’ while ex-president repeats unproven election rigging claims
The likely candidates in the 2024 presidential match-up issued two starkly different new year messages to voters, with Joe Biden striking a note of cheerful optimism as his almost certain challenger, Donald Trump, lashed out in a social media post laden with lies and conspiracy theories.
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Children's booksChildren's booksSince You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson – review‘This book was a laugh-out-loud-on-one-page-and-then-cry-on-the-next kind of book for me, a real emotional rollercoaster’
Some books leave a very real mark on you and Since You’ve Been Gone is one of those utterly brilliant books. This is definitely one of my new favourite contemporaries and I cannot believe that it has outrageously taken me this long to read it.
Since You’ve Been Gone is the story of Emily Hughes’ summer.