Emma Cline’s novel about a man’s journey to Switzerland to end his life had been tipped to win the £50,000 prize ...

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The award-winning poet on having a mind like a weather vane, the ‘torture’ of writing lectures for her Oxford professorship, and why she hasn’t seen Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey ...

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A BBC interview today is likely to rattle the palace as the earl repeats his claim over then Prince of Wales’s ‘monstrous’ ...

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The outcry over the rapper’s calls for a ‘Free Palestine’ at the Met Life stadium shows that economic power is far more ...