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The 90s were a decade of carefree optimism and comically low stakes. Matthew Perry’s death brings us crashing back into the now

For three decades, authors scribbled away with the spectre of the Bad Sex Award judges looking over their shoulder. The award — run by the small Soho-based magazine Literary Review — names and shames writers for “redundant, poorly written or unnecessarily pornographic descriptions of sex in fiction”. It became so…

Even Whartonites might have cause to cheer at this incisive reworking of her final novel

In his latest brief but dazzling journey to the edges of understanding, the theoretical physicist takes us into the heart of a black hole and out the other side

How the myth of the male genius shields our cultural heroes from scrutiny

The celebrated writer’s new novel, about a widowed septuagenarian, opens strongly but can’t resolve the vast number of threads it starts to spin

Editorial: The latest collection to go online reveals the six centuries of influence of a medieval giant who predated the printed press

We cross live to one of the capitals of organised crime in New Zealand

Britney's bombshell new memoir is the ultimate proof that performative radical honesty is in vogue right now, says Alex Peake-Tomkinson