The Latest Breaking News from TS Eliot

A century on, the epic masterpiece speaks to today’s anxieties about loss of tradition

The extraordinary Jamaican poet, playwright, editor and producer became a radio sensation in the 1940s, but her name has been largely lost to history – an injustice this deft documentary is here to remedy

Several of the poets appointed by, or inherited by the Queen, had to deal with public mockery. No wonder Philip Larkin turned down the role

Shows on education range from the warmly comic to the thoughtfully investigative, while TS Eliot’s The Waste Land gets a centenary revival

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

Scholars respond to author’s explanation for his new book appearing to copy some parts of classic texts

Every artist takes. What else do we do but endlessly recycle stories? It’s been going on since the ancient Greek tragedians

Australian author denies he is a plagiarist and says he has been ‘influenced by the greats’ of literature