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Lucy Easthope reflects on life after catastrophe

The author reveals how the way we recover from disaster goes to the heart of what it means to be…

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Chinese fiction is booming, but authors cannot escape the regime’s tightening grip.

By Katie Stallard

People of colour do not simply exist as figments of white authors’ imagination, to be portrayed in whichever way they…

By Anita Sethi

The prolific creator of Jack Reacher thinks the obsession with his coffee- and cigarette-fuelled process is pure pretension.

By Kate Mossman

Michael Ashcroft’s heavy-breathing biography of Mrs Boris Johnson is deeply revealing – of its author and his tribe of Tory…

By Johanna Thomas-Corr

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By Sarah Manavis, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Katherine Cowles and Gavin Jacobson

The unmarried woman has long been derided in popular culture and beyond. Now single women are telling their side of…

By Emma John