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Invoking older examples of accessing pornographic materials, justices grappled with the constitutionality of a law that requires adults to input their age into explicit websites

Talk of Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield conceals Trump's tour of sundown towns in battleground states

Colleagues pay tribute to Radio National broadcaster whose ‘naughty streak and compassion for underdog’ shone in interviews with everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Gore Vidal

An hour’s drive from the grit and grime of Naples lies a glittering stretch of coastline that’s so jaw-droppingly beautiful, it’s served as the setting for many an ancient myth.

Why are there almost no tears in great works of art? Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli is rectifying this – by embroidering balloon-shaped drops on to modern mashups of Giotto and Botticelli

American postmodernist novelist whose experimental approach challenged literary conventions

In Feud: Capote vs the Swans episode 6, Truman and the Swans see the world passing them by in a variety of ways.

Gore Vidal argued essays will outlast novels as a literary form. Hilary Mantel's essays, which explore her personal journey and struggles, suggest fiction and journalism have their own rewards. Vidal may or may not have agreed, but his own novels haven't aged as well as his essays.

The Taiwanese group’s compelling dance and William F Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal’s heated debates are among November’s offerings – plus an interactive theatrical quest