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After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success

The American rapper, 45, tells The Standard: ‘It's time for these men who have been using their power and all the other things... it's time for their reckoning’

John le Carré’s son does him proud in an excellent spy thriller about a Soviet agent that faithfully bridges two of his father’s classic tales

Forget the Silk Roads, it’s the Golden Road we should be celebrating. Renowned historian William Dalrymple argues that, thanks to its major role in global trade between AD300 and 600, it’s India, rather than China, to which we owe some of the most important developments in human civilisation, writes Melanie…

Based on its star’s novel of the same name, the series about recovery and redemption is affecting, poetic and anything but cheesy

The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny

A new book of classic but simple recipes makes solo cooking more pleasure than chore

Denis Villeneuve is definitely (maybe?) heading back to Arrakis. Here's what the director has revealed about when a third 'Dune' movie, 'Dune Messiah,' could start filming.

Poetry of Byron borrowed by schoolboy Leonard Ewbank, who studied at Oxford and was killed at Ypres in 1916

Nick Harkaway was a successful novelist in his own right when his brothers asked him to continue their late father’s spy series. Could he pull it off? Plus an exclusive extract from his novel, Karla’s Choice

Life inspires art in the debut novel by the Belle and Sebastian songwriter, tracing a young man’s path to music