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Ryan Reynolds has pitched an ?R-rated? Star Wars. What would that look like?

Take all the essential ingredients of Star Wars ? samurais in space, adventure among the wookiees, aliens with backward syntax, evil cyborgs with a pe...

The best recent translated fiction ? review roundup

The Propagandist by C?cile Desprairies, translated by Natasha Lehrer (Swift, ?14.99) This clever and vivid book by a historian of Vichy France falls ...

Add to playlist: GB?s open-hearted pop and the best of the week?s new tracks

From Denmark Recommended if you like Arthur Russell, ML Buch, Rachel?s Up next Ressed / Falter EP out now on Untitled The Guardian visited Copenhag...

How the US became the biggest military emitter and stopped everyone finding out

The climate impact of Donald Trump?s geopolitical ambitions could deepen planetary catastrophe, triggering a global military buildup that accelerates ...

What we?re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Yiyun Li, author This past semester I taught The Voyage Out ? Virginia Woolf?s first novel, which is less read and talked about than her other books ...

Mexico steps into unknown with world?s first popular election of all judges: ?A blind date with democracy?

On a heat-dazed afternoon in Culiac?n, the capital of Mexico?s Sinaloa state, a speaker by the cathedral was droning through an advert for the judicia...