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Mastodon explain why 2004 classic Leviathan is so fascinated with Herman Melville’s classic novel in a new interview

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video for its ill-fated US$250,000-per-head trip to see the wreck of the Titanic, it told prospective passengers to “Get ready for what Jules Verne could only imagine – a 12,500-foot journey to the bottom of the sea.” Those behind the video…

In his obituaries, Cormac McCarthy has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville among others, those excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised narratives to tragic and poetic heights

Author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men died in his home of natural causes, publisher announces

New masterpiece from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z is as much about literature as adventure

Steve Borthwick’s men will run out on Saturday in one of the worst rugby shirts of all time. It doesn’t have to be this way

A stylish double biography paints a picture of the modern age through the eyes of two uniquely perceptive American writers

The meaninglessness of modern work – and the pandemic – has led many to question their approach to their jobs