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Director on showing how sexual fluidity was accepted in Lincoln's time: "You know a love letter when you see it"

Gore Vidal's classic film on presidential nominations holds up

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.

Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 provides an opportunity to assess his record: he was a monster who murdered people on an industrial scale.

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

The matinee idol’s death in 1985 changed the public’s perception of Aids. Yet in life, finds Ryan Gilbey, the golden age actor was anything but an activist