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At 81, M. John Harrison has become the oldest-ever winner of the prestigious literary award with The End of Everything.

<p>Visiting Srinagar once, Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra found Iqbal in a rather unexpected place. Or, at least, in an unlikely heart.</p> <p>For most Indians, Mishra notes, Iqbal was simply the “misguided instigator of the movement for Pakistan.” But then Mishra met Mohammad Ishaq Khan, a historian of Islam in Kashmir. By his very nature, Dr. Khan held poli

British writer Tom Rob Smith led an enlightening Q&A session on the difference between writing prose fiction and writing for the screen this afternoon at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, where he is one of the headline speakers. During the session, the Emmy winner, best known for the novel Child 44 and the series The Assassination […]

Books by Intan Paramaditha, Dario Voltolini, Egana Djabbarova and Miljenko Jergovic

Taiwanese literary IP developer and production company Mirror Fiction announced the winners of its fifth Mirror Fiction Award and unveiled five projects for its 2027 slate at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF). The NT$1 million ($32,000) Grand Prize went to Iris Kong for “The Stand-In Family” (provisional title), a suspense novel about four strangers […

Mirror Fiction, a Taiwanese IP development and production outfit, handed out cash prizes worth more than $50,000 to two authors, to help them publish their works and adapt them for screen, in the fifth edition of its biennial awards. The announcement was made at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF), where Mirror Fiction also unveiled its […]

Irish artist-turned-filmmaker Myrid Carten, who won three BIFAs for her feature debut and made the U.K. BAFTA Breakthrough list, talks to THR about her journey so far – and what lies ahead.

From bestselling South African crime fiction author Deon Meyer comes a thriller that perilously entwines local and international threats.

Hot Springs, Arkansas is known for many things – as the childhood home of Bill Clinton, as the former site of Major League Baseball’s spring training (in the era of Babe Ruth), for its beautiful national park, and for its mineral springs and the splendid early 20th century bathhouses built to accommodate legions of spa-goers. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Chanel Pysnik is leaving Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Productions where she served as Head of Nonfiction, Film & TV for the past five and a half years. No immediate replacement has been named for Pysnik who joined Archewell Productions in May 2021, less than a year after the company’s official launch with […]

En s’inspirant du roman de Kamel Daoud « Meursault, contre-enquête », le réalisateur met en scène la rencontre, dans l’Algérie des années 1990 marquée par le terrorisme islamiste, d’un jeune journaliste et d’un vieil homme.

An audio drama produced by The Martian author Andy Weir, a fictional autobiography from Michael Moorcock and a new John Scalzi novel – November is a big month for sci-fi fans, says Alison Flood

Ian Rankin’s The Heights, his first stand-alone book in two decades, continues crime fiction’s grand tradition of exploring corruption and exploitation

Just uncalled-for.

The site's data is reportedly intact, but the cause of the outage is still unknown.

A fictional election in "Kingstonia" is helping students at UNSW learn how to manipulate and sway voters on social media by using AI bots.

EXCLUSIVE: The Circle Training Initiative, dedicated to women and gender-expansive filmmakers, has unveiled the five feature film projects selected for its third Circle Fiction Orbit incubator event taking place in Montenegro this week. They include Portuguese director and screenwriter Leonor Bettencourt Loureiro’s Por Este Arroios Acima, exploring the conne

Der Welt bekannt wurde er als Raumschiff-Enterprise-Kapitän Picard, aber seine große Liebe galt sein Leben lang Shakespeare. Jetzt ist der große englische Schauspieler Patrick Stewart gestorben. Ein Nachruf von Franziska Hoppen.

The site has such a passionate user base that, within two hours of the announcement, its status page's posts had garnered millions of views (and much panicked commentary) across social media.

De Britse acteur Sir Patrick Stewart (86) is overleden. Dat meldt zijn publicist. Hoewel hij oorspronkelijk vooral een klassieke theateracteur was, is hij bij het grote publiek voornamelijk bekend om zijn rollen in sciencefiction: van Captain Picard in ‘Star Trek’ tot professor X in ‘X-men’.

Investors are digesting Anthropic's S-1 filing that the Securities and Exchange Commission released on Monday.

'L'uomo che scriveva soltanto sugli aerei' è l'esordio narrativo del regista di 'Volver'

ENQUÊTE - Ils ont découvert la science-fiction enfant. Devenus les hommes les plus riches du monde, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg ou Peter Thiel rêvent de transformer leurs livres de chevet en réalité.

Sarah Moss: Is it possible for me, an immigrant writer, to produce ‘Irish fiction’?

Plus Winterveil by Ava Reid; Firstborn by MJ Hastings; and don’t read E Lockhart’s The Pools on public transport, whatever you do

Translated Japanese fiction is obsessed with quiet stories taking place in bookshops and cafes, but life and work in Japan are not as idyllic as it seems.

As peptides gain popularity among some wellness influencers and federal government officials, doctors share what you need to know.

British filmmaker Joanna Hogg, who has been serving as president of the Feature Narrative Competition jury at the ninth edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival this week, tells Variety she prefers to know as little as possible about a film before watching it, “not even a synopsis of the story.” “I prefer to go […]

We seem to be in crisis mode when it comes to masculinity: the Tate brothers, looksmaxxing, Hegsethian obsessions with testosterone and TikTok videos awash in pumped bodies spouting unapologetic misogyny. The fear of effeminization has never felt so acute, which presumably is why Matt Damon’s Odysseus needed bulging muscles, to ensure his sensitivity was mit

<img style="float: right" src="https://i.ds.at/9sNtdQ/rs:fill:150:0/plain/lido-images/2026/09/06/8e880ebb-f002-4c63-a6c9-73a141c0883c.webp">Theresa Hannigs "Parts Per Million" trifft aus der nahen Zukunft mitten in die Gegenwart der Rekordhitze und Trockenheit

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New York Comic Con can be a strange place sometimes, but this year, Sega gave select media the opportunity to make it stranger (than heaven). We went hands-on with developer Ryu ga Gotoku's next major project, and while our extended look offered glimpses into the decades-spanning adventure, there's clearly still a lot more to see.&nbsp; The three-hour demo w

Ryu Ga Gotoku's next major game hopes to live up to Like A Dragon's legacy.