The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time fluently explores the space between the big events: the dark sky between the stars which is full of particles of soot and the chaos of thoughts and their endless associational travels. How do we inject meaning into the random?

Can millions of children really be wrong? Harry Potter has electrified a whole generation of children and turned them on to reading, but isn’t it all just based on an elite world of “blood and entitlement”, peopled with inert characters, which normal children can never be a part of?

“No one’s going to give you the floor...you have to earn it by telling the best story”
Elizabeth Gilbert recounts her tale

The legendary German director on the necessity of not looking away.

The literati debate Le Carré