Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The writer and director Cord Jefferson has struck gold with... Read more »
Monica Heisey The author of Really Good, Actually on Being Alive from the musical Company, by Stephen Sondheim My favourite love song is maybe a little untraditional in that it’s not addressed... Read more »
Jamie Dornan fled to a rural hideaway when critics panned his performance in Fifty Shades of Grey, the actor has revealed. An empty house – offered as a retreat by his director,... Read more »
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Sebastian Barry: ‘When you get past 60, you do feel a licence to write fearlessly’ | Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry, 68, is the author of 11 novels and 15 plays. Five of his books have been long- or shortlisted for the Booker prize, and his novels have won numerous awards,... Read more »
Twenty-five historians of the civil war and Reconstruction filed a US supreme court brief in support of the attempt by Colorado to remove Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th amendment,... Read more »
Emil Ferris’s début graphic novel, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” published when she was fifty-five, was a breakout hit, garnering praise from critics and peers for its intricately cross-hatched drawings, its gripping... Read more »
The Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov was having dinner with friends at his home in Kyiv on the evening of 24 February 2022 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Within hours he was advised that his name probably... Read more »
Victoria’s oldest independent bookshop has apologised after its owner called for more picture books with “just white kids on the cover” and claimed that the chain would stop stocking “woke agenda” content... Read more »