In comics, novels and films, the modern cult of the 'New Gothic' reveals a keen hunger for non-religious rebirth.

All aboard the Medes to hunt moldywarpes

Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's best-known authors and a critic of governments in Mexico and the US, died yesterday after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.

'We always find something to giggle about. We're like schoolgirls, but with gallows humour'

In celebration of the woman who scared my mother

Toni Morrison turns the focus of her extraordinary and sympathetic prose towards the plight of the poor

TheWind in the Willows offers humour and escapism but above all Kenneth Grahame’s classic is a hymn to the joys of childhood, says Griff Rhys Jones

Where are you now and what can you see?

James Bond has a new American publisher: Amazon.com.

As the second series of Game of Thrones descends once more on to our screens, Koch Media have announced that the release date of the videogame spin-off isn’t too far behind.

William Boyd, the celebrated author and James Bond enthusiast, is to step into Ian Fleming’s shoes and send Britain’s most famous fictional spy out on a new mission.

Tales of the totally unexpected

It's back on the box from tomorrow and Tim Lott explains why its blend of swords, sorcery and sex is such a winner

It often takes around 20 years for a forgotten author to be rediscovered. With the Scandinavian crime boom still rolling on, it's good to see attention returning to the first Stieg Larsson. Per Wahloo was a Swedish crime writer born in 1926 who worked as a journalist and editor of a left-wing literary magazine before turning to unusual thrillers. Sound familiar?