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This year’s resolution: No more worrying about all the volumes I know I’ll never read.

She went from small-town Canada to becoming the Marilyn Monroe of the 90s – bearing the brunt of that decade’s cruel misogyny in the process. Finally the Baywatch star is ready to tell her own story

Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb’s years-long collaboration is democracy at work.

Lucy Scholes's mid-century story anthology has lesser-known gems, plus Daphne Du Maurier's inspiration for Hitchcock's The Birds

“Sometimes, there is little left to lose.”

Steven Pinker, Mary Beard, Rebecca Solnit and others reveal the books that made them see the world differently

The best thing about reading—it cultivates empathy.  There is scientific evidence that literary fiction improves a reader’s capacity to understand what others are thinking and feeling.

I knew the recently released documentary Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb would be right up my alley. These two men, for those who may need a reminder, are, respectively, the author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (now in its 41st printing...

All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

A 50-year literary partnership is the subject of a new documentary.