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The award-winning Australian’s deconstruction of the novel form is a rich pleasure

For more than 50 years I’ve revelled in the epic, electrifying courage of boxing. But deaths, gangsterism and sportswashing have made it much harder to love

Bestselling crime novelist Joseph Wambaugh, who mined his own experience as a Los Angeles police officer, has died at 88

At the heart of the BBC’s new series Miss Austen is a fictional Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes). Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra’s destruction of her sister Jane Austen’s letters has been considered one of the greatest acts of literary vandalism in history. These letters would…

Letters: In response to an article about a CIA operation, Carl Gardner on tense days travelling to Prague, and David Parker on his father posting letters inserted into the Guardian

Household names like Michael Bloomberg, Alec Baldwin, Mick Jagger and Richard Branson are in the files. None of them were accused of crimes related to Epstein

The beloved tale got Turks applauding and Saudis cheering. How will it be received in Britain? We meet the team behind a high-flying, dance-circus rejig

The prequel stars an 18-year-old Geralt

Andrée Blouin was a political activist and writer from the Central African Republic. Until recently, her name hardly ever appeared in the grand narratives of Africa’s liberation.