In his final book, Departure(s), the Booker-winning author explores love death, and ageing

Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality.

Weird vibes, eccentric characters, odd punctuation — it’s all here in Nicola Barker’s energising and exasperating novel, TonyInterruptor

Purpose of role: The job is to drive and manage all parts of marketing for Swift Press and to manage occasional publicity campaigns.

Elaborating classic pop and doo-wop into divinely beautiful and inimitable hitmaking, these are some of the late musician’s most unmistakable masterpieces

Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter

The American writer, who this week won the Pulitzer prize for his novel James, says the White House under the ‘idiot’ Donald Trump is too absurd for satire

Thirty years after winning the Booker for The Ghost Road, Pat Barker discusses feeling like an outsider, writing about men, and the under-representation of working-class voices

Notes to John is a collection of the writer’s jottings about her sessions with a psychiatrist. She didn’t think them worth publishing when she was alive — and she wasn’t wrong

Stephen May has a penchant for reimagining the lives of historical figures and his new novel, ‘Green Ink’, is a case in point. May evocatively explores what…

Don Paterson contemplates the Terminator in the Augean stables

Stephen May has a penchant for reimagining the lives of historical figures and his new novel, ‘Green Ink’, is a case in point. May evocatively explores what…

An energetic ragtime with a memorable cast of characters and some sharp asides