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From Shakespeare's fools to Donald Trump, this exhilarating read considers stupidity in its many forms ...

The lives of Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, who found love and fame and lost it all, are vividly reimagined ...

With four murder inquiries in play, JK Rowling's eighth Cormoran Strike novel avoids the page-padding longeurs of previous volumes - but will he finally tell Robin how he feels about her?

A wounded bird becomes an image for much wider damage to our world ...

Originally published a year before her death, the Danish author's final novel is an autofictional suicide note ...

In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother ...

To be, or not to be ...

Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London's art scene - photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?

People are understandably wary of new technology, but human error is often more lethal ...

The Albanian author of Free and Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship - and how today's conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past ...