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This broke my brain a little.

A thoughtful biography attempts to restore the Alice B Toklas author’s posthumous reputation as a founder of modernism

Marvel and Disney artist Derek Laufman explores which moments to illustrate and how to create visual interest in panels.

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?

The film follows a couple who complete the 1,000km South West Coast Path after losing their home.

Provocative philosopher who argued that current morality has been cut off from its roots ‘largely thanks to the Enlightenment’

Five years after being vilified for exploiting the migrant experience in her bestseller, the author reveals how the backlash inspired her latest novel

Stephen King doesn’t do plotting. “Plot is,” he decreed in his memoir On Writing, “the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.” Instead, he likes to drop his characters into a situation, start writing and see where things go. If he gets stuck, he follows the advice of…

A chance to meet the women who have been campaigning for justice for Scotland’s “witches” is on offer this coming weekend

Book claims Freddie Mercury had a close relationship with his secret "daughter" until his death in 1991

"No one could have faked all this."