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In the Vogel prize-winning author’s hands, this shocking tale of necrophilic obsession liberates the victims from the true events that inspired it

He’d never dob me in. I’ve never heard him squeal that I napped in the afternoon or watched TV instead of working

In Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty, his outstanding biography of the South African mining magnate who died in 2000, Michael Cardo shows that there is still mileage to be made in the study of dead white males who played a role in the making of South Africa. Based on…

Novel, which law professor Jennifer Taub also worked on, will be released on Substack and have ‘erotic scenes’ but ‘no politics’

I can’t remember when it hit me. It could have been when I was completing yet another admin task, using yet another random app called something like “Lettuce”. It could have been when I found myself leaving the office after spending eight hours crouched over a laptop like a dishevelled…

Swedish activist in Scottish capital to promote The Climate Book

The YA author’s debut collection for adults includes some fine folkloric and ‘horror-adjacent’ short stories

Classic romance novels, epic sci-fi, poetic prose — Alex Peake-Tomkinson quizzes writers from Jessie Burton to Diana Evans on their all-time favourite literary escapes

A gossipy, insightful survey of the (often closeted) gay contribution to American theatre

Lewis Laney tells Abi Jackson about some of the folks featured in his new book, 365 Gays Of The Year.