Philip Ardagh on a memorable evening spent in the company of the late spy chief.

All measurements given in miles (mi) for public convenience.

ASH Smyth takes a leaf out of JMW Turner’s sketchbook.

Ronnie MacLennan Baird watches the world go by.

An outtake from Thomia: The Entangled Histories of Lanka & Her Greatest Public School, out today.

ASH Smyth talks to RS Burnett about his Antarctic thriller debut, and the long road to publication.

ASH Smyth ‘remembers’ the Singing Laundryman.

Why are we so desperate to believe that William Shakespeare wasn’t William Shakespeare?

A recently discovered opera by G.F. Handel.

Martin Rowson on the original unfilmable (and indeed unreadable) ‘anti-novel’, Tristram Shandy.

‘The gall sprawls like a thought bubble coming out of the acorn head.’ A new poem by Nathan Koblintz.

A new poem by Jon Courtenay Grimwood.

How to push for more, beam more… or just carry on being your cheese-eating self.

Three exclusive scenes from the indie horror/adventure movie the world needs to see!

In affectionate remembrance of Willard Price, 28.7.1887—14.10.1983