The world of graphic novels can be hard to navigate, especially if you’re not a superhero fan. Here are seven of the best introductions to t...

Though heavy with egotistical bluster, the former Greek finance minister has valid points to make in this critique of the EU and global melt...

Before their workshop at the NGV Art Book Fair in Melbourne, writing studio the Good Copy shares some tips Should you use italics for movi...

Writer Robert Macfarlane hails the Quarry Wood novelist, who will adorn £5 notes entering circulation later this year, as ‘a brilliant, prog...

Writer Robert Macfarlane hails the Quarry Wood novelist, who will adorn £5 notes entering circulation later this year, as ‘a brilliant, prog...

The Australian feminist’s famous polemic remains a masterpiece of passionate free expression Some of the outstanding books in this series...

He’s obsessed with ‘spectacular rear ends’ and he calls his fans scum. Yet comic artist Robert Crumb is at risk of becoming respectable. As ...

‘My bibimbap salad will make fans of kimchi and furikake swoon!’ Phew! Made it. Sorry, I’m a bit out of breath. I’ve just rushed back from ...

Barker’s fictionalised biography of Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna is typically audacious but a little hit and miss When, in 1965, Christophe...

The author of the phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series talks about getting kids to read, including his own Rick Riordan, a 51-year-o...

Hearing voices can be as much a sign of creativity as madness, according to an intriguing new psychological study “What shall I say about th...

In extracts from Somini Sengupta’s book The End of Karma, the stories of two young Indians hoping to escape from a life of service and drudg...

Nepal’s earthquake, a year ago this week, is just one chapter in the country’s tragic history When he was a student, Thomas Bell wanted to g...

Hope Jahren’s remarkable memoir is both personal odyssey and the story of her profound affinity with the natural world Leaves, soil and seed...