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The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, an important early Christian book containing five distinct texts all copied by the same scribe, is going up for auction in June at Christie’s in London. If you have a spare £2-£3 million, don’t miss this opportunity to own a key example of the birth of Christian…

Hot young writer Caleb Azumah Nelson tells Emma Loffhagen about how gentrification is changing Peckham, and why an incident with the Met shows the police still have a race problem

From celebrity-clogged Italian villages to a Yorkshire Dales veterinary classic and an arty Manhattan affair, these books offer a dose of joy

Group says membership crisis means it cannot pay conference contracts as top writer condemns RWA’s ‘retreat from commitment to equality’

An eagerly awaited sequel to the author’s debut is a wildly inventive fantasy noir of lush and surprising child-like wonder

The artist’s daughter tells the compelling story of sitting for him, but too often gets lost in the detail

As a new book is released, Liquid Sky founders Claudia Rey and Carlos Slinger tell Wallpaper’s Mary Cleary about the downtown fashion store that attracted New York’s underground and had Chloë Sevigny as a sales clerk

A Franco-Algerian family’s struggles since the second world war are intimately captured across continents and generations

The onscreen version of the bestselling YA novels loses absolutely none of the originals’ charm. It’s fresh, lively and energetic – with actors that channel the source material brilliantly

The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, who were labeled enemies during World War II, has traumatized and galvanized the Japanese American community over the decades

It’s not pretty but conference calls at dawn keep us showing up. We’ve got novels to write, which is the only work we really want to do