Notes scribbled by a contemporary of the Bard in a copy of the Divine Comedy show he borrowed lines and even characters from the Italian poet, a historian claims

Documents suggests that Anne Hathaway may not, after all, have been left in Stratford while the playwright wrote his masterpieces in London

The Peruvian Nobel laureate died this week aged 89. William Boyd, who adapted his novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, pays tribute to the ‘great fox’ of Latin American literature

Forty years ago the author shared his Jew-hating views with the journalist Michael Coren. The exchange inspired the hit play, Giant — but Dahl’s toxic views are more prevalent now

Simon & Garfunkel · Sounds Of Silence · Song · 1966

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The queen of crime disagreed with Billy Collins over the titles and covers of her books, according to correspondence found in a Glasgow archive

Scientific analysis tells the story of the simian star’s troubled early years — and the later effects of a sugary diet

George Freeman says he rejected the proposal now being made by the government over fears that the technology could not be trusted

A documentary shows the depths Beijing will plunge to subsume the people whose land it annexed 75 years ago. One of its producers reveals what the team found

Plus: Penguin hiring for head of campaigns to promote Richard Osman; Nigel Havers’s agent and the key to negotiations; and Jools Holland’s kindred spirit

The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The...

A Nietzsche special issue of Cultural Capital

The memorial exhibition was banned even though the authorities had allowed pro-Palestinian activists to campaign in the same space

Well, well, well. I seem to have got off to a blistering start with my new reading resolution for 2025. A goodly pile of books cleared off the TBR mountain, as well as starting my Petrona Award 202…