The reports of the death of Neil Armstrong have read at times like an obituary for the United States, or at least a lament for the passing o...

The news that Wonder Woman will get to do the jiggy-jiggy with Superman has coincided neatly with US senatorial candidate Todd Akin's ...

A fascinating set of old police mugshots, Newcastle-upon-Tyne criminals of the 1930s , has been published on Flickr by Tyne & Wear Archi...

Hard on the heels of China Mieville's challenge to the parochialism of English literary fiction, Ian McEwan, in an interview with Alex ...

I recently finished reading China Mieville's Embassytown , which roughly coincided with his appearance at the Edinburgh World Writers...