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What do editors want?
Industry experts at the Emerging Writers' Festival reveal everything budding writers need to know when dealing with the gatekeepers of…
The best of this year's Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale features 88 countries and 150 artists. We’ve picked some of the best for this visual guide.
The Great Gatsby
With 'The Great Gatsby', Luhrmann again tries to demonstrate depth beyond the luxurious façade.
Kate Tempest: GZA meets Ted Hughes
Performance poet, rapper, playwright – Kate Tempest is a lot of literary things. Is this the future of poetry?
Indigenous Australian creative leadership programme announced
The British Council’s Indigenous Australian creative leadership programme is now open for talented Indigenous Australian creatives
Top Ten Trends at Cannes
Projecting its own obsession with materiality back into its auditoriums, Cannes Film Festival is chiefly concerned with artifice.
Harry Potter and the golden first edition
It’s a price that only JK Rowling could afford to pay.
Get paid to write
Famous creatives from Danielle Steel to Peter Carey started their writing careers as copywriters – why not you?
Painting is all in the mind
A new computer program decodes brain signals to enable paralysed people to draw and paint.
Lydia Davis wins Man Booker International Prize
New York-based Lydia Davis has been awarded the fifth Man Booker International Prize 2013.