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October saw several glamorous literary events, including a star-studded showing at Harper’s magazine’s fundraising gala and Chanel’s latest foray into the book world. Read on for a ticket inside, plus a special dispatch from Comic Con.

Four cartoonists – Marc Jackson, Jim Medway, Young Comics Laureate Mollie Ray and Emmeline Pidgen – visited four schools this week, to further the cause of the Barrow UK Comic Book Town project, initiated by The LICAF Foundation, organisers of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival.

Plans to create a separate town hall for La Manga and Cabo de Palos now have a timeline, with the association Entre Dos Mares aiming to gather all the signatures it needs by June 2027.   The campaign got a welcome boost on Tuesday October 6, when a signing session at the Hotel Cavanna drew…

Doha, Qatar: Football fans embody club loyalty that no boardroom can manufacture. But as global capital reshapes the world’s most-watched sport, who it belongs to is increasingly contested. This question is at the heart of Qatar Foundation’s latest Doha Debates town hall, “Football fandom: Community or commodity?”, now available on Doha Debates and Al Jazeera…