The Dutch-Israeli author on a demonic club hit, her fish fixation, and her love of furniture restoration videos

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1987, Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher who lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her work has appeared in publications including LitHub, Electric Literature and Elle.com, and she has a David Attenborough-themed advice column, Dear David, in the online literary journal Longleaf Review. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, On (Not) Reading Anne Frank, received a notable mention in the 2018 Best American Essays collection. The Safekeep , published by Viking earlier this year, is Van der Wouden’s debut novel and is shortlisted for the Booker prize.

Make this chicken alla diavola, then use the leftovers for a Vietnamese salad, a spinach curry and a shawarma pitta. Plus inspiration for five more dishes

My most typed Google inquiry? Roast chicken recipes. As irresistible as a golden-hued, crisp-skinned roast chicken is, I often feel like I should occasionally break away from its perfect clutches. The recipe opposite is the one I go to. Its three types of chilli heat conspire to create a warmth that tingles rather than blows your head off and makes a rich, chickeny, spicy shallot sauce. And it gifts you the most brilliant leftovers as the meat is already infused with so much character.

When I’ve had a long week and can’t think what to cook, I find leftover chicken waiting in the fridge is what saves me. I’ll buy the biggest bird I can find, and always the highest possible quality I can afford. I’ll roast it at the weekend (ideally having bathed it in a 5% brine with a few herbs such as thyme or rosemary for at least 24 hours beforehand), share it with friends if I have to, then use its leftovers throughout the week in different ways. A curry is mandatory, as is a fresh, punchy, crunchy, herby salad. And as I get to the end of the bounty, I’ll make a sandwich. It feels a bit too obvious to cover it in mayo, so I often make a shawarma-style pitta as I always have the store-cupboard ingredients to hand.

Rob Edwards badly needed a result after Luton’s shoddy start to the season and his team delivered with a dominant performance in an emphatic derby victory. A hangover following last season’s relegation from the Premier League resulted in two wins from nine Championship matches - their worst start to an EFL campaign for 22 years - but Luton rose to the occasion to outmuscle Watford.

The hosts pounced for the opener through Jordan Clark’s close-range flick and the outstanding Carlton Morris marked his return to the team by heading in early in the second half before an stoppage-time goal from Jacob Brown completed this mismatch. Watford started the weekend in sixth but Luton made a mockery of this flattering position with Tom Cleverley’s team second best throughout.

• NZ first to win Cup three times in a row in modern history
• Ben Ainslie promises return with Ineos Britannia

Ineos Britannia’s challenge for the America’s Cup is over. Emirates Team New Zealand won the ninth race and with it the match, 7-2. It means Team New Zealand, and their skipper, Peter Burling, are the first crew in modern history to win the Cup three times in a row, and that Britain’s 173-year wait to win the Auld Mug will go on for who knows how long. “A huge thank you to our team, and to everyone who supported us,” said Ineos Britannia skipper, Ben Ainslie, “and a huge congratulations to New Zealand, in my view they’re the best team ever in the America’s Cup.”

Ainslie had promised to fight all the way, and was as good as his word. The conditions were calm, the swell low, and the wind light as the breeze from a paper fan, which suited the New Zealanders much better. But he manoeuvred his boat superbly through the pre-start, and came off the line with a slight advantage. It didn’t last. Taihoro swept into a 200m lead over Britannia by racing down through the stronger wind on the right side of the course. In those moments, the race looked as good as over.

Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the group uses the religious right’s tactics, and their victories, against them

The devil works hard, but the Republican party works harder. Not a day seems to go by without anti-abortion zealots on the right advancing some cunning new plan to strip women of their bodily autonomy. As well as shutting down abortion clinics, Republican states are trying to essentially outlaw abortion pills: on Friday, Missouri, Kansas and Idaho renewed a legal push to drastically reduce access to mifepristone.

Ange Postecoglou was there to see another defensive implosion, but this time he was not the coach who will have to deal with the fallout. For Tottenham, there was merely glee in becoming the latest side to exposing a multitude of flaws in Julen Lopetegui’s so-called revolution at West Ham.

The idea of Lopetegui as a tactical mastermind was never harder to take seriously than during a game in which his execrable team were obliterated by three goals in the space of eight mad second-half minutes. If there was resistance from West Ham, who were fortunate only to lose 4-1, it was limited to Mohammed Kudus seeing red for attempting to fight at least three Spurs players during the dying stages. Otherwise, though? There is only one word for it: surrender.

Driver in Stalowa Wola described fearing he had hit person after he saw body in road

A funeral home in Poland has apologised after a body that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic.

Polish media reported that a man was driving down a street on Friday in Stalowa Wola, a city in south-eastern Poland, when he saw a sheet on his car window. When the sheet slid down, he saw a body lying on the road. For a moment the driver feared that he had hit the person.

US Coast Guard and off-duty lifeguard rescued Kahiau Kawa, 17, after he became separated from his school’s paddling team

A teenager in Hawaii was recovering on Friday after spending more than 11 hours clinging to a kayak before being rescued during an overnight ocean search by an off-duty lifeguard and the US Coast Guard.

Kahiau Kawai, 17, had gotten separated from his high school paddling team on Wednesday after capsizing approximately half a mile south of Honolulu’s Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort. He was on a 20-foot kayak and was not wearing a lifejacket, the coast guard said.

Authorities had said they were re-establishing electricity service after a power plant failed on Friday

Cuba was plunged into blackout for a second time on Saturday after its electrical grid collapsed again hours after authorities announced they had begun re-establishing service.

CubaDebate, a state-run media outlet, said the grid operator, UNE, had reported the “total disconnection of the national electro-energetic system” and was working on re-establishing it.