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Elizabeth Gilbert has withdrawn her forthcoming novel “The Snow Forest” from publication amid increasingly vociferous fallout over her decision to set the narrative in Russia while the war in Ukraine is ongoing.

The celebrated US author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men has died. Here, leading contemporaries and critics pay tribute to him

Himanshu Jangid’s coffee table book, The Art of Restoration, documents the process of salvaging vintage cars

These interrupted stories, in fiction and real life, are powerfully moving and key into a universal anxiety

Irvine Welsh, Sebastian Faulks and Bernardine Evaristo will be among the writers appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as it marks…

Greta Thunberg, Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre and First Minister Humza Yousaf will also take part.

It will be the follow-up to the Good Morning Britain presenter’s 2021 bestseller The Power of Hope

A couple rely on each other for survival on a post-apocalyptic island, in this darkly unsettling tale

I am aware that adaptations have been with us for centuries and that Shakespeare borrowed his best plots. But that doesn't stop this book lover from being suspicious when movies and plays glom onto my favorite titles.

While I was standing in the Jewish archives in Warsaw, Poland, during a recent humanitarian trip to strengthen programs of protection and safety for refugees from Ukraine, time became quite circular — an evocation of William Faulkner’s adage that “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.” For brought…

Julie Sullivan's debut novel, "The World is Full of Champions," takes a critical look at the chasm that exists between a fictional family from the Black elite in Philadelphia and their working-class maid and her family.