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Author also discusses prospect of second Trump presidency and writing about his stabbing in launch event for his book Knife

Half a century since the perfectionist director vowed to block it, a critique that dared to discuss flaws in his films is to be published

The thriller writer Gareth Rubin focuses on Professor Moriarty, the great detective’s nemesis, in a new adventure approved by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s family

30 Rock star and children’s book author Maulik Pancholy had been due to speak against bullying at Pennsylvania school

Poet says government has rejected some 2022 MacAlister recommendations because reforming system is not a vote winner

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New research suggests some 16th-century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Production examines why Scottish poet’s The Living Mountain lay unpublished in a drawer for 30 years

Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation

Of Cattle and Men by Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry, is set in a slaughterhouse in an isolated corner of Brazil