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The second day of the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival was marked by a special episode of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book, bringing...

Of London, friendships and friendships with London. “Common Ground” with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Naomi Ishiguro Image...

Set in the Barbican Centre’s intimate Curve Gallery, Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta centres her first major London exhibition, Sun at...

“Desiree and Stella, Mallard’s girls. As they grew, they no longer seemed like one body split in two, but two bodies poured into one,...

Narrated by an unnamed woman of colour, Jo Hamya’s novel explores this character’s tumultuous journey into employment following her short...

The Golden Ass, written in second-century Rome by the philosopher and author Apuleius, is one of the earliest novels in human history. It...

Theatres may be closed, and stages made quiet, but Giles Terera’s Hamilton and Me opens the curtains to uncover the back stage work,...

I dial the German mobile number, take a swig of peppermint tea and wait for the call to connect. The recipient picks up, apologising...

It’s a quiet and intimate night at the National Poetry Library in the usually busy Southbank Centre. Conversations about poetry and its...

Walking into the British Museum’s ‘Troy: Myth and Reality” exhibition, one is immediately transported to an ancient world of heroes,...