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Australian star names Baron Cohen as the ‘massive asshole’ referred to in her memoir, Rebel Rising, as representatives for the Borat actor reject ‘demonstrably false’ allegations

Fiona Shaw, Cush Jumbo, Imelda Staunton and Miriam Margolyes to enact parts of novel’s concluding monologue in The Molly Films

This richly evocative tale – part of a project drawing on the work of long-forgotten contemporaries of Dostoevsky – bears repeated readings

The iconoclastic US author’s intellectually poised critique of minimalism boasts scintillating writing of breadth and power

Survivors’ stories provide gritty testament to the moral confusion of life in the aftermath of atrocity in the Pulitzer-nominated Native American’s eye-opening second novel

Other lives: Expert in critical criminology who advised the United Nations on organised crime and human trafficking

G. Adarsh Kumar, who is currently Director, SCMS Institute for Road Safety and Transportation (SiRST), was recipient of the Kerala Chief Minister’s first Transport Medal. He recently authored a book The Fact in the Fiction, narrating primary lessons on road safety with the help of stories.

The Palestinian author’s second novel in translation is an affecting portrait of one displaced family’s inescapable relationship with the past

NPR host Steve Inskeep joins other authors of books on the 16th president at annual Ford’s Theatre symposium

Three girlhood friends grow into the worlds of art, tech and activism and on towards a divisive, fascist-run nightmare in the American writer’s ambitious follow-up to The Leavers

'3 Body Problem' show makes smart changes from the book, yielding a good adaptation