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The house in which legendary poet Ted Hughes once owned and became a centre for creative writing with Arvon North is being ...

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Tributes have poured in for Val Kilmer. The actor who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman Forever,” and channeled as Jim Morrison ...

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Directors including Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Mann have paid tribute to actor Val Kilmer, following his ...

Reclusive American novelist Thomas Pynchon has a new novel slated to be published this fall, his first since 2013’s Bleeding Edge. The author Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Inherent Vice and ...