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Newly released Epstein estate photos feature literal Lolita quotes and chilling text exchanges, raising urgent questions about symbolism, abuse, and elite connections in the ongoing release of Epstein files.

Exclusive: Book to detail life from child poverty and teenage pregnancy to unions and Labour deputy leadership before fall from grace

This gripping thriller has topped bestseller charts all year

France's largest Braille publisher struggles to continue producing embossed books in the digital age. Researchers delve into people's guts with a large-scale study on the French population's microbiome. And Louise Bourgeois, the French midwife who in 1609 became the first woman in Europe to publish a book about medicine.

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour docuseries may have boosted Liz Moore's The God of the Woods, which is now set for a Netflix adaptation.

White elephant parties – in which people are invited to steal each other’s gifts – are the last thing we need right now

Riva is a restaurant that gently embraces its diners, imploring them to come back, and back, and back

Will The Winds of Winter ever be released? Explore why George R. R. Martin's massive HBO deals and the Zeigarnik Effect may leave the series forever unfinished.

US hedge fund Elliott thought to prefer IPO in London over New York, which could be welcome boost to UK stock market

The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

This resurrected Danish novel about a man who is ‘frozen down’, awaking in an Orwellian dystopia two decades later, is inventive, funny and all too timely