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June 14 Thanks to Moondreamer, who has discovered that TWO of Gabriel Byrne’s latest films–Le Capital and Le Temps De L’Aventure (Just A Sigh)–will be screened at the Munich Film Festival (Filmfest München), which runs June...

In Episode 97 of So you want to be a writer: Book 2 of Allison Tait’s The Mapmaker Chronicles is shortlisted for the Aurealis Award, punctuation in famous novels, a poem that shows how tricky English can be, and would you write differently if you were...

EARLY IN MARCH, I attended one of the Writers Bloc interview sessions that Andrea Grossman presents regularly in Los Angeles, this one featuring Dublin author John Banville. He was touring from his native emerald isle, not on behalf of his prize-winning...

Inertia may be enough to keep a statue in the ground, but it’s not going to make anybody care about the president on that statue. Doing that takes effort—like a movement across the country. Or, alternatively, a lot of little movements in different parts...

From gripping fiction to history, brilliant poetry to biography, our guest contributors offer their recommendations for the beach and elsewhere The Guardian’s summer books special: Julian Barnes, Sarah Churchwell, Kazuo Ishiguro and more pick their...