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In the early 1950s, William Burroughs – drug addict, homosexual and pioneering writer of what would come to be called the Beat generation – found himself in Mexico City. On the run after accidentally shooting his wife, Joan, during a drunken game of William Tell, Burroughs relished the freedom granted…

Peacock’s 'The Day of the Jackal' reboot may get bogged down in minutiae, but it’s still a worthwhile slow burn.

One of the greatest books at all time gets an equally ambitious streaming adaptation.

A photographer sets out to make a ‘personal geography’ of his native Germany in this poetic tale of loss and belonging

A whimsical new exhibition assembles a range of books that don’t exist, from Byron’s destroyed memoirs to Shakespeare’s lost play

A collection of articles, talks, letters and unpublished writing fills important gaps in the great naturalist’s life story

This 16-part series does justice to Gabriel García Márquez’s magical-realist masterwork – although the novel’s sexual politics have aged badly

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel, weaves superstition, sex and the surreal into an unparallelled Spanish-language epic. Helen Coffey assesses whether a new Netflix show can possibly do justice to the original

Rory Stewart’s memoir Politics On The Edge topped the biography category.

Amazon said the items violated its guidelines

An Ohio teacher with over 30 years of service has filed a lawsuit after being suspended for including books with LGBTQ+ characters in her classroom library.