The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...

A Sebastopol writer speculates on what the famous TV chef might have been doing as an agent with the OSS during World War II ...

Virginia Woolf, Hilary Mantel and Prince Harry, we learn from A Voyage Around the Queen (Fourth Estate, £25), have each ...

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, by Rhodri Lewis (Princeton ... history focusses on a tumultuous decade that comprised the Irish War of Independence, the wrangling over the treaty that partitioned ...

Australian actors from shows including Colin from Accounts, Boy Swallows Universe, Austin are named as having potential to break out on the world stage.

Tom Hanks recently shared his thoughts on the rise and recent struggles of superhero cinema. Lots of talent in Hollywood have their opinions on these films and while some embrace it, others feel that ...

The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...

“Their survival is nothing short of miraculous, as the jars were removed to safety together with the family’s art collection ...

It shows how his themes, genres and forms have evolved and interlaced since the 1960s. Love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past and Northern Ireland ...

First introduced as part of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's New 52 Batman run at the turn of the 2010s, the secret society ...