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Spotlight on partisan split of issue as Republicans push for works to be taken out of schools and librariesA Senate hearing on book bans and censorship on Tuesday spotlighted the growing phenomenon in America and highlighted a partisan split on the iss…
Exclusive: James Norbury says he is fulfilling pledge made after his debut book landed him a six-figure dealThe self-taught artist and writer James Norbury was living below the poverty line and volunteering with a cat charity when his self-published bo…
‘There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t met yet’ is engraved beneath an image of the Nobel-winning Irish poet. Only he didn’t write itParticipants in next month’s Dublin marathon are due to receive a medal engraved with a quote attribute…
Biography by Walter Isaacson contains colorful nugget of then New York mayor seeking 10% stake in PayPal in return for adviceIn 2001, seeking to recruit Rudy Giuliani as a political fixer to help him turn PayPal into a bank, Elon Musk swiftly backed of…
Memorial by Ben Twiston-Davies is sited in Wallingford, where the mystery writer lived for more than 40 yearsA life-sized bronze statue of Agatha Christie has been unveiled in the Oxfordshire town of Wallingford, near where the detective novelist resid…
The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his countryThey were the rabble-rousing rappers that brought the 1980s racially charged streets of New York to the masses and tu…
A new book, “How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?”, shares the stories of India’s political prisoners.
The nomination for Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week agoHakim Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a prof…
The novelist’s four-page letter to his lawyer in 1954 recounts his injuries following two successive plane crashes in two days A letter written by Ernest Hemingway recounting his harrowing injuries after surviving two successive plane crashes in two da…
Foundation backtracks on earlier announcement that representatives from Russia, Belarus and Iran would be invitedThe Nobel Foundation has reversed its decision to invite ambassadors from Russia and Belarus to this year’s Nobel awards ceremony in Stockh…