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Frantz Fanon was an influential psychiatrist, Algerian revolutionary and pan-African thinker who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique. His work – and particularly his final book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – is still widely referenced to understand the fight against colonialism and also the postcolonial era…

Former PM’s memoir Unleashed argues he was victim of ‘witch-hunt’ and lockdown parties broke no rules

An adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s bestselling 2018 novel about a woman dealing with her friend’s suicide is tender and well-acted, if a little messy

Make every season spooky

Rachel Cusk, Neel Mukherjee and Jonathan Buckley and three debut authors in contention for award promoting innovation in fiction

The Oscar-winning actor and author of the Myron Bolitar series have been ‘writing pages over many months’ together to create a thriller to be published next year

Reese Witherspoon’s latest literary news marks a new direction for the Oscar-winning actor, producer and founder of her own book club

It was a bohemian enclave of drinking dens, dodgy bookies and after-dark decadence. As a famous book about the London quarter’s bygone charms reappears, our writer downs a breakfast negroni and sees if they can still be found

Exclusive: The cast of new Stephen King adaptation Salem’s Lot reveal the scariest scene in the movie and what it was like fighting off vampires