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Verbal clashes from history are being thrillingly restaged for modern audiences. Do these grand battles prove we’ve lost the art of disagreement? And could watching them anew change the politics of tomorrow?

There are few playwrights doing it better than Graham

This look at the corruption of modern political discourse is dynamic and intoxicating

The nicest man in British showbiz is livid at what he calls ‘an unforgivable collapse in standards’ in government

The Star Trek actor is making his West End debut in a play about the 1968 US TV political debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley. But he fears the pair’s fiery exchanges may be partly to blame for today’s polarised politics

The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick

He’s gone from largely writing under-appreciated cult classics to renowned creator of a smash-hit comedy – and he’s not sure it’s really him. Might he call time on his brilliant satire?

Star Trek actor will play Gore Vidal in play based on 1968 TV debates that transformed political broadcasting

Jason Epstein was the publisher and editor of authors such as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. In his 2001 book, Book Business, he described how the once-relaxed Random House – where authors frequented the publishing office (and sometimes slept there), and where editors had stronger relationships…