Stephen Moss

Nearly 500 Taliban prisoners have tunnelled their way out of an Afghan prison, but how does their feat match up to those other great breakouts?

These Italian ruins should be preserved, but not turned into a theme park, writes Stephen Moss.

Writer Nadine Gordimer is fighting again, this time against government’s plans to muzzle the media. She tells <b>Stephen Moss</b> why.

Twenty years after helping defeat apartheid, the eminent writer is fighting government plans to muzzle South Africa’s media.

Yann Martel has been savaged for writing about the World War II genocide in his follow-up to <i>Life of Pi</i>.

Ridley Scott claims his new version of <i>Robin Hood</i>, starring Russell Crowe, is the most historically accurate portrayal.

As his 12th novel comes out, the novelist admits fearing his decline as a writer and is still wounded by the critics, writes Stephen Moss.

Jane Goodall, who began her seminal work on the chimpanzees of Africa 50 years ago, is now touring the world with another important message.

The ideas behind the theory of evolution have been scientific gospel for decades — and yet creationists refuse to go the way of the dinosaurs.

"Please put packages behind the wheelie bin. Don’t worry — they’re only foreign books."

Author Michelle Paver is becoming used to celebrity: interviews, book signings, author tours, writes Stephen Moss.