Merchant Ivory' is often used as shorthand for lavish period films. A new doco tracks the remarkable life of the two men behind the production company, and the love that kept them going.

In Lapoujade’s description, the worlds Dick constructs are always on the point of collapsing, precisely because they are ...

Is media news truly in the public interest when it causes mental anguish? People today are burdened by accumulating and interconnected crises.

Writers have often turned to the royal family for inspiration, but in recent years it has been fiction, rather than factual biographies, that have grown in popularity. And the royals are not only ...

Burke also plays the author Forster, who functions as a kind of spectral touchstone, imparting wisdom and pithy observations ...

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A new R.E.M. biography traces the beloved band's arc from small-town Georgia to the forefront of the alt-rock scene. It's now ...

Mr Rosenberg’s novel does not have the high literary merit of Amis’s, but it is a clever reimagining of a tumultuous period ...

A Slight Angle is more than just historical fiction. It is a story about the timelessness of intimacy, expressed through ...

What is kindness, and can it really be measured? Discover how people choose to be kind, and how their "kindness quotient" is ...

“It is perhaps the most relaxing thing that I’ve ever done,” says the actress, whose new book of essays is “Lifeform.” She thanks her own mother for the gift of Margaret Atwood. In his ...