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Prolific author and screenwriter committed to exploring social justice in work such as Wild Wood and A Game of Soldiers

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The Chocolat author on the magic of Ray Bradbury, beating Ulysses fatigue, and the poetry of Wuthering Heights

Bryan Lee O'Malley’s chaotic world is more than worthy of revival

Our Scott Pilgrim Takes Off review says the new Netflix anime adaptation is a blast set to great music

Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim anime is a great complement to its source material — but without the context of its predecessor, the series loses its life.

“On the other bank … that is where Henri Lopes now rests,” wrote novelist and journalist Nicolas Michel in a beautiful tribute to mark the passing of the celebrated Congolese author. It’s a reference, of course, to Lopes’ 1992 novel Sur l'autre Rive (On the Other Bank).

How science textbooks in Texas address climate change is at the center of a key vote

Soma, an anthology of A.K. Ramanujan's mostly unpublished poems, edited by Guillermo Rodriguez and Krishna Ramanujan, offers readers an opportunity to explore the poet's fascination with the Soma plant. Contextualised by two essays, the book reclaims and records a critical moment of literary history. The poems, while not unselfconscious, require…

Steven Wilson is the renaissance man of modern prog. He’s also something of an enigma, and new album The Harmony Codex is as enigmatic as anything he's made

Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult novel The Master and Margarita has inspired many artists.