Dumfries and Galloway hosts literary residency for the first time
Applications are open for the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship, being hosted in Dumfries and Galloway.
‘The most desolate place in the world’: The sea of ice that inspired Frankenstein
This French glacier has given rise to countless works of art in the past 200 years. Paintings, photos and satellites reveal how the site...
Cambridge study suggests ‘poetic obsession’ with lawnmowers
Academic research suggests British poets have written about mowing the lawn for nearly 375 years.
Family of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accuses hospital of negligence over son’s death
A hospital in Lagos denies medical negligence over the death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 21-month-old.
‘Addictive’ diaries win prestigious non-fiction prize
Helen Garner's How to End a Story: Collected Diaries is first diary to win Baillie Gifford prize.
Dylan Thomas ‘plagiarised other poets’ repeatedly as schoolboy
He became a literary legend but as a schoolboy the young Dylan Thomas has been found to have copied poems.
York: Mixed views over ‘largest independent bookshop’ arriving in city
Topping and Company, which currently has four UK shops, is set to open in York in autumn 2025.
Taylor Swift to Hamnet: The best culture to look forward to this autumn
From returning pop superstars to Oscar-ready films and big-time celebrity memoirs, here are our recommendations for what to watch, listen to and read for...
TfL celebrates the 40th anniversary of Poems on the Underground
In 1986 the first Poems on the Underground appeared as part of an "art for all'" project.