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Katherine Rundell has just become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious literary prize – for a biography of ‘poet of desire’ John Donne. Why is she giving the £50,000 away? Because, she says, no man is an island

Near the end of FX's TV adaptation of "Fleishman Is in Trouble," after the upscale lives of its privileged main characters have emerged from their slow-motion implosion, one character tells another character about the book she might write about the whole mess.

One hundred years after the French writer’s death, translator Lucy Raitz suggests some good ways into his work

France's Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago this week, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. To mark the anniversary, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is hosting a major exhibition in Paris, where some of the secrets of Proust's 2,400-page novel "In Search of Lost…

I’m sitting under the thatched roof at Austin’s Hula Hut restaurant. The day could not be better. The Hula Hut is perched over the water, upstream from Lady Bird Lake. It’s far from the traffic noise of downtown Austin, bathed in what must be generations of laidback light.

Author Sarah Miller, who wrote 'Permission to be F***ing Happy' turned her life upside down and found happiness, after an unexpected death spurred her on

A scan of recent Australian memoirs suggests an appetite for stories about pain. But after telling their story, writers have to sell it – and that can come at a cost

As he was starting his literary career, Charles Dickens was a journalist. Alas, he was not a business reporter — that would have been too appropriate for the son of a debtors’ prison inmate.

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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday granted time to former Indian hockey team coach Sjoerd Marijne to file his response to lawsuits by two players and Hockey India against publication of his book.

JOBS at what is thought to be the world's biggest books festival will be cut in a "heatbreaking" move caused by bleak economic conditions…