The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Nikos Kazantzakis is for many the best Greek writer of the 20th century and his books have been translated more than his ...

Lines from Mambazham by Vyloppilli Sreedhara MenonThe simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem Mambazham (1936) of a mother offering a mango to her son, where he had ...

After Sterling Morrison quit the Velvet Underground, he traded his guitar for poetry books. We take a close look at his University of Texas scholarship.

Jack Rooke’s coming-of-age story has reached its conclusion. We will miss this brilliant sitcom, which always acknowledges, ...

Almost purely by chance, Futurism has discovered a hilarious bug within multiple chatbots that causes it to spit out insane answers when asked about writers' spouses — including multiple ...

A phone alarm pings, and Adonis Florides gets up. Excuse me, he says briskly, there’s “something I have to do”. I wonder if ...

In his new series, Costner chronicles the 1903 meeting between Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir, and the impact it had on ...

Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.

In cinemas today you can watch Timothée Chalamet impersonate Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. For Esquire, Mick Brown — one of the rare journalists to have interviewed the great man in ...

Knife isn’t set in Hampi. It was the next Rushdie book I read. It is a painful, and gripping narrative. But it is also ...

In the second extract form his critically acclaimed biography, Paul Hindmarsh charts Wilfred Heaton's musical apprenticeship.