Editorial: Verse’s connection to nature can inspire awareness and hope amid the climate crisis, offering clarity beyond data

The best literary comfort reads rebuild our strength so we can face reality, argues novelist Francesca Segal. She picks her ultimate reading list – with help from Nick Hornby, Sathnam Sanghera and...

I wear it for peace, for the killed civilians – and for all the conscripts, including my relative, who were forced to fight, says writer Phineas Harper

Prolific actor with more than 200 film and TV credits, including Final Destination, The Rock, The Crow and Platoon, died at home after a long illness

As Patti Smith’s debut single turns 50, punk musicians and music writers pick the songs that define the genre’s resistance, rebellion and refusal

National Literacy Trust finds only 35% of eight to 18-year-olds enjoy reading in their spare time, a sharp drop on last year to the lowest figure yet recorded

Widely and wildly talented musician and industry mogul worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Will Smith and others

In The Loney and Starve Acre, the novelist has tapped into a rich seam of rural menace. As his new collection Barrowbeck is published, he considers how today’s fictions are haunted by climate anxiety

For Halloween, critics pick their most nightmarish baddies, from Count Orlok in Nosferatu to Annie Wilkes in Misery

Recent releases like Terrifier 3 show that the business of scaring cinema audiences is in rude health. But such horror flicks are standing on the blood-soaked shoulders of giants

The unknown Bram Stoker story Gibbet Hill, published soon before the author began working on Dracula, has eerie echoes of his vampire classic

A new survey suggests that young people are shunning AI algorithms and online retailers to experience the joy of visiting bookshops

Prolific artist who was a major star in both Nashville and Hollywood retired in 2021 after a six-decade career

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall

Exclusive: Scholar names Henry Porter as likely co-author of 1604 play after linguistic clues in his surviving work

In roles including Gordon Tracy, Brains, the Daleks and Grandpa Pig, Graham was ‘generous with his time and his talent’