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In a richly layered performance, the actor plays a prof who writes an outlandish novel he thinks is a joke but publishers think is a masterpiece.

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Spitting Image puppets and Barbara Hepworth works also donated via Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes

Eighteen months after the Australian writer’s death, his early work, activism and personal life are revealed in two complementary titles

Evidence suggests that writing was invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next? Anyone interested in this question will find How Writing Made Us Human by Walter Stephens both an enjoyable and stimulating read. It offers what it calls an “emotional history” of writing, chiefly referencing academics…

Romance publisher to launch two ‘trend-led books’ a month, with ‘generous dose of spice in every story’

Who's in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians cast? Meet the stars of Disney's YA fantasy adaptation of Rick Riordan's stories of the Greek gods.

From the Sussexes’ woes to the bully XL debate, from the state of US politics to the conflict in Gaza, the Evening Standard’s comment team have been as incisive as ever