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The Iranian-American poet on puncturing comfort, staying an apostate and her teenage love of RL Stine

Life writing is usually a conventional business, but these writers take on the job by discarding the rules, with thrilling results

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante and Dickens.

And only two of them will make you cry!

Emily Dickinson on the reaction to snakes, a good photo of a black-crowned night heron on the Chicago River, the restoration numbers of elk in Kentucky and a question/notes on stinkhorns are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

The Coral Stewards' Cup is the big betting race at Goodwood on Saturday. Mr Wagyu is at the top of Betfred's market, from Inver Park, Whenthedealinsdone and Regional

All too often, hope is equated to a desire for something fleeting: good results on an exam, the win of a favourite team, the wanted present. Quite whether something so insubstantial can actually be called “hope”, though, is a question that has taken on particular poignancy over the last two…

The 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

British director Terence Davies’s ninth feature centres on Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and decorated war veteran who suffered from shell shock and struggled to find 'redemption' from his secret queer romances.