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Culture wars in the United States form the backdrop to this taut political cliffhanger.
The 23rd novel by the Irish writer John Banville feels like the literary equivalent of Winston Churchill’s description of Russia.
Elmore Leonard’s slang-slung writing style was ?celebrated for "leaving out the bits that readers skip".
There is a confidence, economy and enjoyability to "Bad Monkey" that give the impression of a writer back in love with his franchise.
The 28th work of fiction from Scotland’s most successful crime writer turns on five ominous disappearances.
<em>The Fear Index</em>, a financial what-if, takes place entirely on the day that the Blair-Brown years officially ended: May 6 2010, election day.
The death of Lucien Freud highlights a specific crisis in the art of the traditional portrait.
Is this a good time for factual film-making? It depends on your definitions of fact and film.
Instead of disguising himself in time-honoured fugitive tradition, this terrorist enjoyed provoking his enemies by distributing images of his face.
From the facetious British foreign office memo writers to prophetic novelists, the pope and Catholicism have become the evil force of choice.
Bad times call for upbeat slogans, producers seem to think, no matter what the film is really about, writes Mark Lawson.
Until this week, the stand-out detail about the director Kenny Ortega was his habit of fining cast and crew a dollar for yawning on his sets.
Knowing that writing is a profession with no retirement date, publishers and readers are reluctant to let go.
Believers, when mentioning heaven, traditionally cast their eyes skywards, but the possibility of an afterlife may now be proved by looking down.
Since the death of Ian Fleming in 1964 his estate has authorised 32 novels about James Bond by other authors.
The most psychologically intriguing possibility regarding Hillary Clinton’s recollection of coming under sniper fire in Bosnia is that, for her, the memory is entirely accurate.…
In Hollywood movies, a single plot twist is no longer considered sufficient: the first surprise is the down payment on a more amazing revelation. Off-screen events now follow the…
If you’re ever stuck for a tie-break question to decide a pub quiz, try this: How many Oscars has the British government won? This is not a joke about Tony Blair’s thespian…
Mark Lawson profiles Kaavya Viswanathan, a writer embroiled in a plagiarism scandal.
There have previously been children whose birth attracted a certain amount of attention — Jesus Christ, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Mountbatten-Windsor, Brooklyn Beckham — but the…
