Curry houses, grocery stores, textile shops, and bilingual street signs: All pepper the street known as Banglatown—Brick Lane, East London’s iconic Bangladeshi neighborhood. Wandering among a throng of Bengali locals and international... Read more »
Northern writers still face a struggle to make it in the London-centric literary world, the organisers of a regional literary prize have said. Claire Malcolm, founder and chief executive of New Writing... Read more »
A celebration of the author Martin Amis, who died last May aged 73, is due to be held in London next month. Friends, family and colleagues of Amis will gather at St... Read more »
Armistead Maupin is just where he wants to be. But that’s not where you might expect. The writer who made his name as the bard of San Francisco – or at least an earlier incarnation of it,... Read more »
A west London library has had to temporarily close after bedbugs were found in returned books. It was announced on Monday that Northolt library in West Ealing would be closed until the... Read more »