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A group that promotes the Cantonese language has shut down after Hong Kong authorities said a fictional essay depicting a decline in liberties in the city on the group’s website violated the national security law. It's the latest example of the city’s erosion of freedom of expression. Andrew Chan, chairperson of the Societas Linguistica Hongkongensis, said in a Facebook post that national security officers visited a home where some of his family members live without a search warrant las...

A group that promotes the Cantonese language shut down on Monday after Hong Kong authorities said an essay submitted to a literary competition three years ago violated the national security law, in the latest example of the city's erosion of freedom of expression. Chan said he decided to halt the operation of his association due to the legal risks and a lack of resources.

The prodigious writer’s tricksy new novel features Napoleon, an alien named Harper and a trip to the moon. So why is it so dull?

Bush, who passed away earlier this month, never shied away from trying a new filmmaking technique.

A 1980s essay by Czech writer Milan Kundera on the peoples trapped between east and west is enjoying a new lease of life, says research professor Jacques Rupnik

An interesting story sapped of its weight by gimmicks over eager to impress

AUTHOR JANE SMILEY IS A LITERARY POWERHOUSE, and your neighbor. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, in her early 40s, for A Thousand Acres, her fifth novel, published in 1991.

There comes a time when speaking sensibly about politics becomes impossible. Enter the clowns.

Psychology researchers have found that nostalgia – which was once classified as a mental disorder – comes in different forms.

About the moral burden of European responsibility, which is 55 years old