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Howl: illuminating draft of Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem found

Rafe Spall to star in West End premiere of To Kill a Mockingbird

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Doubts cast over provenance of unearthed Sappho poems

Bertrand Tavernier, veteran French director of Round Midnight, dies aged 79

Debut authors dominate on 'extraordinary' Dylan Thomas prize shortlist

JRR Tolkien's own illustrations appear in Lord of the Rings for the first time

Michael Sheen to star in Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre

Carmen Maria Machado wins Rathbones Folio prize for queer abuse memoir

Marcus Rashford vows to reach children who have never owned book

Campaign to buy JRR Tolkien's Oxford home fails

Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury issues another profit upgrade

Thomas Bernhard was a 'demon', half-brother reveals in bestseller

Authors fear the worst if Penguin owner takes over Simon & Schuster

Translator Kate Briggs among this year's Windham-Campbell prize winners

‘He was a kid with a million questions’: Fauci to star in children's book

UK watchdog investigates Penguin owner's Simon & Schuster takeover

Douglas Adams' note to self reveals author found writing torture

Nawal El Saadawi, trailblazing Egyptian writer, dies aged 89

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Prince Harry writes foreword to book for children who have lost parents to Covid

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Rick Morton: 'We need to guard against the idea that we're in a competition of pain'

'Self-satisfied pork butcher': Shakespeare grave effigy believed to be definitive likeness

Margaret Atwood to edit collaborative modern Decameron for the Covid era

'We are guests on Earth': Akram Khan to stage The Jungle Book as climate crisis tale

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Runners in England plan 330-mile relay to mark launch of parkrun book

Marvel announces first gay Captain America

Shortlist for Carnegie medal offers locked-down children 'hope and escapism'

Ralph Fiennes to direct and star in TS Eliot's Four Quartets

Julie Burchill fires new publisher identified as a white nationalist

Beano hero: Dennis the Menace turns 70

'Part of you is saying "I'm in hell'': Stephen Fry talks to Jonathan Biss

Hergé's heirs sue artist over his Tintin/Edward Hopper mashups

‘Imperially nostalgic racists’ target Empireland author with hate mail

'Not suitable': Catalan translator for Amanda Gorman poem removed

First trans woman makes Women's prize longlist, alongside Dawn French and Ali Smith

Winston Marshall on break from Mumford and Sons after praising rightwing writer

Tenement Kid: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie to publish memoir

Perseverance Martian landing point named after Octavia E Butler

Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, dies aged 91

Ken Follett gives book proceeds to French cathedral restoration fund

The Queen’s Gambit to become a stage musical

Rare Andy Warhol cookbook Wild Raspberries goes to auction

Diane Abbott signs deal for 'honest and moving' memoirs

Guardians of UK's literary jewels at risk in V&A plan to cut key library staff

How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution

Amanda Gorman tells of being followed by security guard who said she looked 'suspicious'

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld writes poem about Amanda Gorman furore

Dave Stewart and Joss Stone team up for Time Traveller's Wife musical

Dr Seuss rockets up US charts after books pulled over racist portrayals

Vladimir Nabokov's Superman poem published for the first time

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Edna O'Brien to receive France's highest honour for the arts

Researchers read sealed 17th century letter without opening it

Six Dr Seuss books cease publication over racist and insensitive portrayals

Bookshop.org raises £1m for UK's indie booksellers amid lockdown

'Shocked by the uproar': Amanda Gorman's white translator quits