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The Hay Festival finished last night. The previous week it was blackmailed into ditching one of its sponsors, the wealth management group Baillie Gifford. A climate divestment activist group, Fossil Free Books, asked writers attending Hay to de-platform themselves in protest at Baillie Gifford’s sponsorship, because it invests two per…

Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists

Pitch-dark cynicism meets a spooky coming-of-age story in these promising debuts by two ‘alt lit’ proteges

Letter to friend and publisher Albert Ehrenstein, to be auctioned in June, details struggle to write at time of tuberculosis diagnosis

From plant names to notions of native species, many aspects of the natural world are shaped by empire. We need to decolonise, says the author of a new book – but not all experts agree

After Amanda Jones got death threats for speaking out against censorship, she sued her attackers and wrote a memoir

Three sisters attempt to deal with their father’s death as the end of the world draws near in an evocative novel about sibling rivalry

Species once viewed as a threat are undergoing a horticultural reassessment and being hailed for their resilience and beauty across the UK

The art gallery boss on the role of museums today, the politics of sponsorship and how Cornelia Parker influenced her decision-making