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‘Dog lover’ South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was ‘extremely dangerous’ but failed to mention slowly killing a goat

Republican senator says Noem’s story of killing her 14-month-old hunting dog makes her unlikely to be Trump’s running mate

Harry Potter star reveals in interview that he has had no contact with Rowling since the author’s gender-critical statements on trans women

Paul Auster, the author of 34 books including the acclaimed New York Trilogy, has died aged 77. Auster became known for his ‘highly stylised, quirkily riddlesome postmodernist fiction in which narrators are rarely other than unreliable and the bedrock of plot is continually shifting’, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote in 2010

The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancer

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No dog person himself, apparently even Trump sees the bad optics in having a ‘puppy killer’ as a running mate

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Report commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers is due to behavioural changes described as ‘emerging adulthood’ or delaying ‘adult’ life

Newly deciphered passages outline Greek philosopher’s burial place and describe critique of slave musician

South Dakota governor’s account of family dog Cricket killing neighbor’s chickens may be an offence, according to state law