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He makes you laugh, shares your woes and comes with no sexual strings attached. But why, wonders Caroline O’Donoghue, is the gay man/straight female friendship such a caricature in popular culture?

Can the language someone uses be as unique as their fingerprints?

As musicians prepare for the Eurovision song contest on Saturday, entries for its literary counterpart have been announced

Scrolling through US comedian and social media phenomenon Dril’s Twitter account can be a confusing experience for those, like me, who don’t share the same references to “Weird Twitter”, videogaming, fast food, obsessive branding and 1990s popular culture.

Championed by Elena Ferrante, Céspedes’s neo-realist classic The Forbidden Notebook is being reissued 70 years after it was first published. It still speaks to women’s lives today

Rooney is among a number of successful western authors who have found a growing audience in China’s restless younger generation

Reading Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights to my children around 2007, I met its heroine, Lyra Belacqua. My children barely remember her. I will never forget her – nor Pantalaimon, her daemon; her soul in protean animal form.

Marisa Tomei narrates this sensational coming-of-age tale set in Naples, in which a young girl unravels her family’s secrets

"The Lying Life of Adults," the latest novel by the famously pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante, has been adapted — one might say inevitably — for the screen as a six-part Netflix series. It follows HBO's lauded and ongoing "My Brilliant Friend," based on Ferrante's "Neapolitan" tetralogy, and three books…

The award-winning novelist talks to Shiva Akhavan Rad about the fight for equality in Iran

The novelist’s atmospheric evocation of favourite scenes from others’ books strips them of their weight