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The new Apple TV+ show Dark Matter is the brand's latest novel adaptation, and it topped last week's streaming charts.

This year’s International Booker prize shortlist is neatly varied, offering generational sagas, magical realism, and personal and political narratives that are “implicitly optimistic” , exploring the current realities of racism and oppression, global violence and ecological disaster.

Butler is among several writers refusing to appear at the literary festival over sponsor Baillie Gifford’s alleged involvement in ‘technology and arms in Israel’

Ed Hughes and Peter Cant’s chamber opera meditates on literature, aesthetics and theology and boasts John Tomlinson as Milton. But this opera of ideas doesn’t allow us to make out the actual ideas

Malik is the latest A-list star to read on the series

The prospect of a high school or college reunion elicits shame, dread and regret. What if going could actually be good for your mental health?

Bestselling author is behind several Netflix mystery hits, including ‘Fool Me Once’ and ‘Stay Close’

A French cartoonist has doubts about her boyfriend in Mirion Malle’s third book in English, a striking hymn to women and solidarity

When Olivia Laing began restoring a walled garden in Suffolk, the writer found that green spaces can also be sites of beauty, refuge and radical politics. They speak to Lucy Jones about their new book, ‘The Garden Against Time’

A school district in Houston has voted to redact chapters on vaccines and climate change, and parents and educators are worried

The two literary greats wrote 400,000 words to each other in letters that now reveal rare insights into their friendship - sometimes affectionate, intimate, cool and resentful