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Showdown of epic ambition in French capital

He’s got looks, talent and money … but is also generous and modest. Who could ask for more?

Half of UK adults don’t read regularly, according to a new survey. Helen Coffey asks where it all went wrong – and whether we can ever find our way back between the pages

Trump alleged to have used highly offensive racial slur in early 1970s

Video game adaptations of novels and short fiction have long helped bring works of fiction to new audiences. The Witcher, for example, which now spans three games and a Netflix series, began life as a series of fantasy stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.

Lady in the Lake opens with a classic mystery premise: a man unceremoniously dumping a female corpse under a midnight blue sky. Less conventionally, it is narrated by the voice of Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram), the dead woman herself. In this speech, Cleo directly addresses Maddie Morgenstern (Natalie Portman), the…

It was awkward. I had just mistaken some hand cream for soap. But when I was asked to join a veterans’ football team, aged 35, I surprised myself

The Olympic Games are putting the French in the spotlight, as the hosts

The inner thoughts of an Irish community speak volumes about the state of the nation in Donal Ryan’s sequel to The Spinning Heart