The battle over public funding for our major orchestras has all the ingredients of comic opera, if not farce.

Gen X author is now investigating the way the world is wired, writes Chris Barton.

Carroll du Chateau talks to writer James McNeish about the people who fuelled his memoir.

Danielle Wright delves into the zine sub-culture, where she discovers underground publications about everything from neighbourhood cats to the joys of the photocopier.

An exhibition by eight LA artists gives a broad impression of contemporary styles

A young student has reportedly uncovered four previously unknown stories by New Zealand literary great Katherine Mansfield.

What we want, finds Nicky Pellegrino, is often different from what we get.

British writer Kate Summerscale explains to Stephen Jewell how her journalistic background helped her investigate a Victorian divorce.