David Barnett looks at a pioneering new project that aims to tell the inspiring stories of women who have shaped the world in comic book form 

The way writers drew on electricity to weave their stories tells us much about the history of electricity itself

From The Velvet Underground to Patti Smith, Kanye West and Lady Gaga, record covers are a piece of affordable art for the everyday music fan

'It’ll be sharp! It’ll be great! It’ll be fantastic!'

Three Waterstones shops have opened without the company's traditional branding

Three Waterstones shops have opened without the company's traditional branding

In 1967, a two-month orgy of violence and hysteria swept a rural province in China and an astonishing 4,000 people were brutally slaughtered. Without the bravery of Tan Hecheng, the story of what happened to these ‘black elements’ would never have been told. David Barnett on the journalist who uncovered the Killing Wind

Yiyun Li's memoir is as far from a ‘tell-all’ as one can get with its eight essays that are snapshots of her life, including her struggle with mental illness, but it is only a part of the bigger picture

One of them centres on the junket life of an actor

'They did not finally ‘do the right thing’ and now we know where their threshold lies'

Marvel’s Muslim superhero Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager who fights crime in Jersey City and challenges negative assumptions about Muslims 

Philip Pullman has been outspoken in his criticism of Donald Trump, so his forthcoming fantasy trilogy ‘The Book of Dust’, about the struggle between despotism and free speech, will certainly be read allegorically

Employing sensitivity readers to flag up racist, sexist or offensive content in books is commonplace now in the world of publishing as an additional check

Morgan engaged in a high-profile Twitter feud with the Harry Potter author last weekend

‘What can I tell you about it? The first thing to say is that Lyra is at the centre of the story’

The entire book will take 32,567 Tweets in total

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s new collection of short stories about displacement and exile are an antidote to Donald Trump’s plan to ban refugees from entering America

'Autofiction' has an important role to play in this new post-truth world

Public Lending Right released the figures which revealed the top 10 most-borrowed books, as well as the top 10 most-borrowed authors