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Two decades before Peter Jackson, 'The Return of the King' dropped. Here's why it still matters.

Recent studies suggest we’ve fallen out of love with reading – but the more chaotic our times, the deeper is our need to slow down and read fiction

El Eternauta writer and his daughters were disappeared by military in 70s, but his grandchildren could still be alive

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent. But on the journey inside her mind and life, we get a good account of how…

You’ve been married for 50 years and you’re in love, so maybe you just speak a different ‘love language’

INTERVIEW: The prolific non-fiction writer returns to her favourite themes of hope and uncertainty in her cheerful new book, ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’. In a conversation with Hannah Ewens, she discusses why fiction is overrated, why new age spirituality is a hoax and how a functional social welfare…

Famed philosopher AC Grayling is speaking at writers' festivals around Australia - but you won't find him promoting it on social media.

Generally when I’m reviewing a book on a subject I’ve written about, I turn to the index as soon as I’m bored to see if I’m quoted, so I can skip to the scintillating bits. No need to, here; I rock up in the very first paragraph of the introduction:…

London is a living, breathing anthology of stories. From Soho to Dalston, every corner whispers tales of those who dared to be different. It’s in these streets that Oscar Wilde once walked, where Virginia Woolf penned her thoughts, and where countless unnamed heroes lived authentically, even when the world wasn’t…

The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan