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“Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde. Sebald had long harboured a desire to be an author and had a clear plan for becoming one.…

Editorial: Overdue recognition for the designer of Paris’s famous Métro entrances is an encouraging sign of the times

Rodney Hall’s Vortex is the 13th novel in a long and distinguished career that includes two Miles Franklin Literary Awards for his earlier novels Just Relations (1982) and The Grisly Wife (1994). It is a historical novel, but with a particular sense of history in mind.

The translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet into Tamil at the Chennai Book Fair highlights the challenges and importance of translation in the publishing industry.

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

I much prefer the fun and mess of unvarnished childhood snaps, says philosopher and writer Tom Whyman

Xerography revolutionised the way we copy, print, and distribute textual material. It allowed for the quick and cheap reproduction of printed material, and enabled the emergence of a vibrant arts scene, improved access to educational material, and, perhaps most importantly, rendered copying an independent activity.

A beautiful grifter, a defiant prodigy and a political prisoner star in this month’s best books, which our critics describe variously as "utterly engaging", "beguiling" and "profound".

The artist and film-maker talks about Black cultural history, Tupac Shakur, the evolution of dub and his remarkable cinema essays with the Black Audio Film Collective