Alison Flood 
One of the world’s most fiendish literary puzzles – a murder mystery in which all the pages are out of order – has been solved for just the third time in almost a century. Cain’s Jawbone was dreamed up by … Read more
A fragment from a 12th-century French poem previously believed to have been lost forever has been found by an academic in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Dr Tamara Atkin from Queen Mary University of London was researching the reuse of books during … Read more
Newly opened archives at the Swedish Academy have revealed the depth of concern among Nobel judges for the consequences awaiting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn if the dissident Soviet writer were awarded the prize for literature in 1970. The author of One Day … Read more