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Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary author

IN FOCUS: As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem is less about publishing and more about a wider societal issue

Colson Whitehead is one of the rare authors to win the Pulitzer Prize twice. The first time was for his novel "The Underground Railroad" in 2017, loved by Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey and made into a TV series by Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins. It led to him being on…

Her bestselling debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble, became a hit TV series. Now Taffy Brodesser-Akner is taking on the American dream

Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

From David Sedaris’s comic diaries to Maya Angelou’s poem Amazing Peace, count down to Christmas with our Advent calendar of festive reads

Literary stars including the Game of Thrones author, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, and Jonathan Franzen, sue OpenAI over copyright.

Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen and 8,000 others have signed an open letter asking that permission is obtained and compensation given when a writer’s work is used by AI