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The Australian Pulitizer-prize winning author on love, grief and pretending to be normal while feeling anything but

Booker prize winner Marlon James is breaking into television with his rave-reviewed cop show. Its creator and star talk wigs, unfinished business – and what it’s really like being queer in Jamaica today

The poet on his early love of horror and the transformative power of Thom Gunn

Bangladeshi high schooler Laiba is being educated for the future, but what she learns has been determined by the latest chapter in her country's battle over its past.

The novelist and reporter delivers a passionate indictment of complacent liberal responses to Israel’s brutal campaign

East London creatives (ELCs) are easy to spot. They wear carpenter’s trousers and Gore-tex to Columbia Road Flower Market, have weirdly strong opinions about tomato varieties and enjoy fiery debates about which Zone 2 pub serves the best Guinness. They might even have the Yves Klein blue cover of a…

Recipes for offal and spice-heavy dishes in Book of Sent Sovi show how transatlantic travel reshaped cuisine

Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna remain under house arrest until Sunday, despite lack of evidence against them

Henry Reese, 75, had just sat down to interview Rushdie when the author was stabbed in a frenzied knife attack