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2/5 The filmmaker touches on forbidden desire and sexual scandal in his too-slight debut novel

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

Ross Levinsohn sacking was to ‘improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company’, says board, two weeks after fake authors exposed

He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confounded his peers

The author’s new novel explores how global events shape individual lives – but nothing prepared him for this ‘dark moment’

Actress Viola Davis recently said that critics serve no purpose. Is that true?

Writer Roger Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker.

This biopic of TV chef Julia Child is so charming and warm it’s televisual comfort food – seasoned with a fabulously old-fashioned turn from its lead