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Will the libraries survive?

Cuts have left public libraries struggling to survive. Will they make it? And what will it mean if they don’t?
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Secret Manchester: The Portico Library

The Portico Library serves up a slice of secret Manchester, and a good slice of cake too
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Anime for beginners

The Comic Collective provides some anime classics, in the form of both film and book, to usher in new fans
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Technology gained

As the worlds of dusty books and shiny screens collide, is the future of fiction lost? Twitter suggests not.
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Escape in a children’s story

Remember how fun reading was when you were a kid? Joelle Jefferis advocates reigniting the adventure
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“We got him”: celebrating death isn’t for the faint-hearted, but it is for the American

The politically timed re-release of We Got Him!: A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein rankles
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Review: Room, by Emma Donoghue

Phillipa Moran looks at the novel Room in its contemporary, and not at all fictional, context
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Book Club cross-sections: Emily Clark, Food and Drink editor

We asked fellow Mancunion editor, Emily Clark, what she has been reading (and drinking) this week
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Call for Contributors

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Book Club: Ata Rahman

This week Ata Rahman, history student and co-editor of the Manchester Historian answers to Book Club
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Never Judge a Book by its Film Cover

We ask whether a film adaptation can ever be as good as the original book
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