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The Booker-winning author on the impact of Audre Lorde’s essays, being entranced by Dylan Thomas, and finding her poetic voice with Derek Walcott

The writer could face up to seven-and-a-half years in prison for charges relating to his 2014 book about a Kurdish man who flees Turkey, which was banned there last year

The Bond-like adventures of Biffy began in 1916 in Russia and appear straight from the pages of 007 thrillers

The chaos element of the populist right disrupts France’s weary liberal regime, in a novel of sadness and eerie serenity that marks a new direction

A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement with students and parents

The department has killed more than 400 substantiated cases of alleged misconduct this year

Why don’t men read? Oh, I know dear male Standard readers do, those urbane, literary, poised and secretly perverted doyens of good taste. But those other men, they are not reading fiction. Oh sure, they read Sir Alex Ferguson’s book, Lewis Hamilton’s book, books about cage fighters and career criminals,…

He has risen...

Wallpaper* catches up with Isabella Burley, founder of Climax, as she inaugurates a New York outpost of the cult bookstore and showcases a playful new collaboration with fashion label Chopova Lowena

The Big Little Lies author imagines what would happen if a mysterious woman on a flight began predicting the deaths of her fellow passengers

Manuscript that begins with boys evacuated amid nuclear war is part of exhibition marking 70 years since novel’s publication