Zhang Pu, brother of Wild Swans author Jung Chang, says his novel about a doomed Han-Tibetan romance was banned in China because it “refuses to look away” from Tibetan suffering – and says he would be detained if he returned. Writing exclusively for The London Economic, he explains why the...
Families hold silences that shape us more than we realise. For Richard K. Lowy, discovering the truth about his father’s life as a teenage twin subjected to Josef Mengele’s medical experiments at Auschwitz became an encounter with history at point-blank range — and a warning about how propaganda, denial and...
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Multi-award-winning film director, editor, scriptwriter, playwright, and author Julian Doyle is famed for his work with Monty Python, providing the special effects for Monty Python and the Holy Grail and editing The Meaning of Life. But, as he reveals, it was his work editing Monty Python’s Life of Brian, which...
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Global bestselling indie author RR Haywood warns that artificial intelligence is being increasingly used by hustlers to churn out books online, with potentially dire consequences for legitimate authors.
Ahmed Alid denies murdering Terence Carney, 70, in a Hartlepool street eight days after the Hamas attacks on Israel.