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Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood

A boy’s search for his mother, a freedom-loving poet who opposes America’s authoritarian regime, makes for a shaky follow-up to Little Fires Everywhere

Lviv BookForum is partnering with Hay festival for a programme of in-person and online events, which will be streamed free from 6-9 October

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

In a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation

Writers including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri and Ian McEwan have spoken out after the attack in New York

Psychology professor draws on 20 years of studying often crippling issue that can affect sufferers’ careers and even health