Writer dies in Manhattan hospital after infection, his agent Lynn Nesbit confirms

James invented the ‘psychological novel’ in The Portrait of a Lady. How could I not follow the fortunes of its heroine?

It looks like Glasto is heading for a hiatus in 2019 and this week it announced its Variety Bazaar. But fans aren’t happy, and organiser Michael Eavis is openly worried “this might be one risk too far”

Dassey’s overturned conviction is third time in 18 months a TV show or podcast altered course of case

‘In a country with a lot of barrier-breaking to be done for women, a female narrative is a welcome one’

Author Harper Lee’s death is sad but her first novel has life lessons for us all

‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ author was a feisty storyteller with a powerful message

Mockingbird author ‘appeared’ in Truman Capote novels

After success of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee retreated from public view

Eileen Battersby’s verdict on author’s much anticipated Go Set a Watchman

The convoluted history of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman

Iowa deserves a more prominent place on the US cultural map thanks to two programmes for writers that ignore borders and backgrounds and help make impossible conversations happen

After reading the script of the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical classic, which is coming to Dublin soon, it becomes apparent that my school’s version left out a few bits

‘New’ novel preceded Lee’s classic but was not published at the time

Ciarán Clark has brought the Outhouse centre’s library back to life and created a city centre gem in the process

The great French writer Colette was the first French woman to be given a state funeral - although she was denied a Catholic one because of her two divorces

A round-up of the best new crime thrillers, including books by Sinéad Crowley, Jakob Arjouni, Erin Kelly and Mark Billingham

The story of the true-life murder of a mother and children is let down by unconvincing melodramatic subplots

Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad

Rather than being bullied into adoration by tub-thumping promotion, filmgoers felt they had discovered Hoffman all on their own

For four decades, Kim Newman has provided a peerless commentary to the lesser known gems of horror cinema – and is a dab hand himself at the monster myths

The Appalachian writer Ron Rash brings his dark southern tales to the Kilkenny Arts Festival

Opinion: a monument to the 43rd president of the United States offers a selective presentation of his life

Truth was much less important than fantasy and invention in the self-made world of the legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland