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Amsterdam to Wolf Hall, Booker winners and bestsellers – authors including JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel, Philip Pullman, Nick Hornby and Ian McEwan annotate their own first editions. The books will be auctioned at Sotheby's next week in aid of English PEN
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The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, has divided medical opinionThe field of mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with the publication of the long-awaited and deeply-controversial US manual for diagnosing mental disorders.Early drafts of the book, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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Film promising revelations about reclusive Catcher in the Rye author has been snapped up by movie mogul Harvey WeinsteinJD Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, was one of America's most famous recluses and guarded his private life with fanatical dedication. Yet even he might have been impressed by the immense efforts being undertaken to keep details secret of a new documentary...
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From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon explainsConsider this curious item of furniture, which belongs to the Geffrye Museum in London and appears at Turner Contemporary, Margate, as part of Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing. The object in question, at...
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To get a sense of the places that inspired the Great Gatsby and F Scott Fitzgerald's decadent lifestyle, visit the hotels in the US and Europe he spent much of his life inF Scott Fitzgerald's short life was restless. He never set down roots, instead drifting from glittering 1920s New York and France to Switzerland and the American south in the 30s, with many waypoints in between. Hotels were a...
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Part of Shane Salerno's film about The Catcher in the Rye author is screened at Cannes after nine years in productionIt has been veiled in mystery and speculation, and has been nine years in the making. But now a few minutes of the highly anticipated documentary about JD Salinger by Shane Salerno – chiefly known as a writer of action films including Savages and Alien vs Predator – has been...
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Robert Schumann's tragic life has long coloured our view of his music. But as pianist Jonathan Biss concludes a year long series of concerts, he finds a composer betrayed by his biographyFor most of the century and a half since 's death, aged 46, his last, unhappy years, spent in the Endenich asylum, have been shrouded in mystery. , encouraged by a group of close associates that included ,...
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Not just a story of decline, Goulson's book offers fascinating insights into the world of the bumblebeeKetchup. Nothing better illustrates the mess we've made of managing the environment on which our survival depends. When you next plop it over your chips, as Dave Goulson points out in his enlightening account of a life studying bumblebees, consider that it was probably made in the Netherlands...
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Images from Death of a Naturalist, annotated by the author
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The arts interview: The artist tells Nicholas Wroe that getting out of her comfort zone and challenging prejudices is what makes her tickIn the quarter of a century since the artist came to public prominence she has been associated with an exceptionally wide variety of work. She was initially known for pieces in which she violently destroyed objects and then eerily suspended the resulting debris...
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