When Judy Blume started writing in the late 1960s, the young-adult category was dominated by what were known as “problem novels”, said Katy Waldman in The New Yorker: books that “took up social issues ...

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The 250th anniversary of Constable’s birth has seen a flurry of publications about the great painter and his work. This rich ...

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Maggie O’Farrell’s 10th novel, Land, opens with mapmaker Tomás and his son Liam surveying a windswept peninsula in the west ...

Emily — that free, wild, untameable spirit, never happy nor well but on the sweeping moors that gathered round her home.” So wrote Elizabeth Gaskell of Emily Bronte in her pioneering 1857 biography of ...

The Biography [Photo provided to China Daily] On an early summer afternoon, book lovers gathered along Nanjing's Changjiang Road for "Our Nanjing — Having Afternoon Tea with Ye Zhaoyan", a literary ...

THE LIFE of one of Yorkshire’s most celebrated and forgotten composers has been captured in a new biography, as well as inspiring a murder ...

Siddaramaiah: Rasheed Kidwai's new book on DK Shivakumar traces the Congress leader's rivalry with the outgoing Karnataka ...

Back at the Yale library that holds his archive, the low-key creator of “Doonesbury” reunites with the journalist who pieced ...

A man who wrote a book about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor alleged the former royal had a disturbing pick-up line for women ...

Exclusive: New biography uncovers Frank Hawking’s papers in which he lamented that his son had ‘little initiative’ ...