California governor denies parole for Robert F Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan

Gavin Newsom rejects decision of parole board on releasing the 77-year-old

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A story about Philip Roth leering at ‘colleens’ in Dublin exposes a Neanderthal attitude

‘Dublin in the 1970s was a long day’s journey into sh**e’

Douglas Kennedy’s time living in Ireland – where he managed the Peacock theatre and wrote for ‘The Irish Times’ – feeds into his new novel, a sprawling, almost 600-page epic

Film-maker Pawel Pawlikowski’s deft touch to the fore in ‘Cold War’

The Polish auteur’s latest movie is of a stripe that enamours almost all who see it

Sex, addiction and shattering tradition in Moroccan literature

Moroccan author Leila Slimani has taken a bold step in writing about a bored woman addicted to sex at a time when publishers in the region expect her to ‘describe sand dunes and camels’, and women's sexuality is an explosive topic in her country and the wider Muslim world

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Douglas Kennedy: a storyteller grappling with the larger things in life

Six million books sold – and still the author of ‘The Big Picture’ is always fretting about the next one