As sales of cosmetics for men soar, book reveals industry’s first boom was in 1700s Male cosmetics are no longer the preserve of rock stars...

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As museum prepares to celebrate Lewis Carroll’s heroine, ties to mysticism and magical societies have come to light in a new work, Through a...

The Books of Jacob, praised by the Nobel prize judges and winner of Poland’s prestigious Nike award, will be published in the UK in November...

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CSIS included quote from A Perfect Spy in tweet about job postings, bewildering Twitter users For an intelligence agency seeking new recrui...

The Lyrics, a ‘self-portrait in 154 songs’, will look at the people, places and circumstances behind songs written in boyhood, with the Beat...

Anita Dunn said privately what aides ‘would never say in public’ Cautious campaigning won pandemic battle with Trump US politics – live c...

Poet and countercultural pioneer put on trial for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl went on to become a beloved icon of San Francisco Lawren...

State of Terror, written by Clinton and author Louise Penny, will follow a novice secretary of state after ‘four years of American leadershi...

Galia Oz claims late author – hailed as Israel’s greatest – beat and humiliated her in childhood, but siblings say they remember him differe...

Tax breaks announced for companies who pay for manuscript by the Marquis de Sade, valued at €4.5m The French government is appealing for co...

A travelogue of final resting places seeks to make readers confront their own mortality The first night Jack Cooke slept in his hearse – st...

Scholar Edward Said longed to write novels, yet never succeeded, a new biography reveals Edward Said was clear and firm: the work of a cri...