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Why evolutionary theory should be applied to peacocks, politics, iPhones and quite a lot in between ...

Organisers of the award for LGBTQ+ writers have paused the prize this year, after controversy over the longlisting of John Boyne meant it was 'overshadowed by hurt and anger'

From jewellery to the Parthenon marbles, why do people collect things? And what happens when interest tips into obsession?

A Cumbrian wind is the central character in this hugely ambitious, millennia-spanning novel, which was 20 years in the making ...

The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government ...

Sympathy Tower Tokyo attracted controversy for being partly written using AI. Does its author think the technology could write a better novel than a human?

With fans eagerly awaiting the reclusive author's first book in more than a decade, the noir caper Shadow Ticket, we assess his best fiction of the past 60 years ...

Kim's meditation on the disruptions experienced by family members during the Korean war and North Korean dictatorship explores absence, searching and separation ...

A father searches for his missing daughter at a business park, only to become a living ghost in a corporate nightmare ...

An exhilarating collection distills the late writer's thinking on power, exile and the importance of the mother tongue ...