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Zack Snyder is angling to make another Batman movie. Stranger things have happened

Two Batman projects are already in the making at DC Studios, but Snyder has set his sights on the classic Frank Miller graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns

‘It leaves holes inside of you’: graphic novel aims to remember the history and horror of genocide

Dana Mashoian Walrath’s The Book of Genocides is an audacious and personal new look at genocides from Germany to Palestine

Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people that ‘authoritarianism everywhere is bad’

Art Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’

More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America

Death Note: The Musical review – wildly popular manga mystery is a killer night out

The multi-platform phenomenon makes its way to the stage, with all the supernatural hijinks, J-horror tropes and emotional intensity intact
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  • I was asked to write a new Miss Marple, so I sent her to the Alps
  • Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline
  • Dominic West backs ‘top shagger’ Byron in poetry battle with Bob Geldof
  • Camilla praises ‘life-enhancing power’ of books amid Earl Spencer memoir controversy
  • Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky review – the bell tolls for Patrick Hamilton’s lost Londoners
  • Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’
  • Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis?
  • Earl Spencer SLATES the king. Charles DESTROYS Spencer. If only Diana were here to click on it
  • Zack Snyder is angling to make another Batman movie. Stranger things have happened
  • Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
  • ‘We demand the truth’: Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee lead calls for proof of life of disappeared Eritrean writers
  • No Land to Stand On by Mahmoud Khalil review – a searing account of political imprisonment
  • Paul, John … and Yvonne? The French novelist asking: what if a woman had written the Beatles’ greatest hits?
  • ‘The damage was much worse than I had imagined’: the shocking inside story of Salman Rushdie’s survival
  • Charles sounded ‘giddily elated’ after Diana’s death, claims Earl Spencer
  • Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’ guide to 49 threatened British birds wins Wainwright book of the year
  • Cul-de-Sac by Eleanor Limprecht review – a powerful and timely novel about domestic abuse
  • My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy audiobook review – gripping vision of a fearless writer
  • Margaret Busby: ‘My friend Bonnie Greer fearlessly spoke out and forged connections’
  • Why stop at Wuthering Heights: House of the Damned? Bring on Mrs Dalloway’s Rampage!
  • Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all
  • Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters
  • The New Dark Ages by James Marriott review – a grandiose but superficial defence of reading
  • Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire
  • The Strangers by Naomi Alderman review – where has this odd new species come from?
  • Beyond Bradford and the Brontës – new walking trail shows West Yorkshire’s natural beauty
  • Earl Spencer’s memoir claims Prince Charles said of Diana: ‘We’ll forget her soon enough’
  • Annie Dillard, Pulitzer prize-winning author of nonfiction and nature essays, dies aged 81
  • Previously unseen drawings by Moomins author Tove Jansson to go on show in London

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