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Just too late for IBARW:

So horrific are the images conjured up by 'Strange Fruit' that Billie Holiday always performed it with her eyes closed. Caryl Phillips, who used the title for his first play, traces the song's dark history.

Australian novelist Kate Grenville found success with novels about her country's violent history.

International Slavery Museum opens in Liverpool next week.

And some other stuff:

Germaine Greer on Ann Hathaway.

Kathryn Hughes on Penguin's publication of 20 (short) pieces of classic romantic and erotic literature and the Industrial Revolution.

Hermione Lee applauds Alison Light's Mrs Woolf & the Servants.

Shop til you drop C18th style: John Mullan goes on an 18th-century shopping expedition in John Styles and Amanda Vickery's Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830.

Colin Greenland's Sarah Hall's futuristic fable, The Carhullan Army makes it sound as if the separatist feminist commune includes a significant Starkadder contingent:

Over the fetid gloom of Rith brood the dark moors and fells, thrusting through the soft verdure of the lowlands like primeval, inescapable truths. Hall's prose is chunky with local language, colour and landscape: bothies, bields, becks and corbies, hefted flocks and droves of heather.

Ben Goldacre goes WTF, and so do I.

EEEEEE! these were even scarier as a full-page spread in the Guardian Weekend Magazine