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He partied with high society America but caused outrage when he spilled their secrets. Ebs Burnough talks us through his new film about Answered Prayers – the ‘smart, salacious’ novel Capote never finished

1984 has reached No.1 spot on Amazon's top-selling book list over the weekend. Too bad few people citing the book's dystopian horrors in earnest seem to understand the usage.

Graeme Simsion has made the subject of autism front and centre of his third Rosie Result. "To write a book now that skirted around discussion of autism would be disingenuous."

Talking about breaking up has never been easy, especially if you're in the public eye, but when did we invent this type of language to tell people love is dead?

NUMBER-crunching literary criticism was the butt of an academic in-joke in “Arcadia” (1993), Tom Stoppard’s cerebral play. Bernard Nightingale, a foppish poetry don, scoffs at a colleague who used a computer program to attribute an anonymous story to D.H.

Alleged ban on 1748 erotic novel seen as pandering to the sensibilities of a generation of ‘snowflake’ students

Editorial: Two hundred years after the novelist’s death, snobbery continues to cloud our celebration of one of Britain’s greatest writers

See the 10 passages of The Handmaid's Tale that Kindle users highlight the most.

Loyalty cuts both ways as a poor young Indian lands a job as driver for a successful Delhi businessman in Ramin Bahrani’s compelling film

Jeanette Winterson’s inventive fiction has always pushed boundaries. She tells AN Devers why her new novel is taking on gender-fluidity and the rise of humanoid robots

SOME advice is worse than useless. A short list of bullet points from eHow, a website, that is passing around social networks purports to show “how to write good.” (Each rule was jokingly broken in explaining it.) Unfortunately, it will not help most people write good.

When the logic of capitalism means universities are run as businesses, much is lost. Reclaiming literature is crucial to understanding the times we live in

Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen’s books are remarkably relevant to women in Pakistan today, as Moni Mohsin found when she met the sub-continental Janeites

Two centuries after the publication of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the monster she created still stalks our imaginations. Adam Frost, Sergio Gallardo and Edu Fuentes piece together the facts behind the myth

"I still call Australia hom... ophobic."

One Hundred Years of Solitude’s author took cues from Kafka – and his grandmother – to tell an impossible story that disarms the reader’s scepticism