In Martin Amiss short story Career Move, Alistair, a screenwriter, has just finished his latest script and is sending it off to theLittle Magazinewith the slim hope that hell get it published. Meanwhile, Luke, a poet, has just dashed off a sonnet ca lled Sonnet that hes faxed to his agent before hitting the gym

When I was asked to write a book about Banksy there were two things that worried me. The first was that I had no idea who Banksy was, but I consoled myself with the fact that neither did anyone else. The second problem was that I needed to view so me of his work. This is a harder task than you might imagine, since Banksys are not exactly hanging in art galleries across the country and the graffiti he puts up on walls is often obliterated

In 1994, the director Bla Tarr released a film seven hours long calledStntang. Hailed as a cinematic masterpiece, the writer Susan Sontag said: Id be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life. Now, for the first time, the novel that insp ired it is being published in English. Originally written in 1985 by the Hungarian author Lszl Krasznahorkai, its translated by the poet George Szirtes and offers a bleak, yet darkly comic, vision of a collective farm limping through the dying ...

Hilary MantelsWolf Hall, her Man Booker-winning opus about statesman Thomas Cromwells decisive role in Henry VIIIs break from Rome and the English Reformation, terminated abruptly at the point where the next chapter in Henrys affections and Cro mwells sinuous realisation of them begins. But the button was only tantalisingly on pause

The judges for the Short Film Palme dor at Cannes are unlikely to be casting envious eyes at the videos made by teams Sterling and Phoenix in episode nine of the2012 Apprentice.Filming an advert to promote English sparkling wine was the decisive test in a challenge that had started with such high hopes for the eight remaining candidates who assembled at the Grand Champagne Bar in St Pancras Station at 6

It is heartening to see so many exciting and original children's books being published at the moment. Yet it's also good to remember some of the pioneers of great children's literature. So well done HarperCollins for deciding to reissue some class ics includingHarold And The Purple Crayonby Crockett Johnson

It is heartening to see so many exciting and original children's books being published at the moment. Yet it's also good to remember some of the pioneers of great children's literature. So well done HarperCollins for deciding to reissue some class ics includingHarold And The Purple Crayonby Crockett Johnson

What kind of philosopher would declare that a love affair is a route to philosophical truth? A French one. Thats not the only way Alain Badiou fits the Anglo-Saxon image of what a French intellectual ought to be.

Tributes have poured in to Carlos Fuentes, one of the Spanish-speaking world's best known writers.The Mexican writer, who has had died at the age of 83 after suffering a massive hemorrhage in his digestive tract, will be honoured later today in a ceremony at the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, with his casket on display, the The National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature confirmed

BBC producer Colin Grant stands beneath the majestic Portland Stone portico of Londons Bush House and points out the spot, around 10 years ago, where he met his literary hero V S Naipaul. I remember going to meet him in reception in this wonderful , grand entrance, says Grant. And in he came rather regally, like a viceroy