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Looking for more interesting bookmarks? Check out the Webby winners
The 15th annual Webby Awards offered entertainment as well as a rich clearing house for some of the most interesting material on the Internet today.
The Bard's sources are up for review once again
Current speculation about the origins of Shakespeare's character Ophelia points to a 16th-century coroner's report.
Authors get a boost from screen
Authors these days generally don't get too fussed about the editing of their finely honed opus into bite-sized scenes, because they know the fortune that can be accrued from the simple phrase "now a major motion picture" stamped across the front of their book.
The importance of the theme tune
The writer of the Golden Girls tune Thank You for being a Friend, Andrew Gold, died last week, and it took him just an hour to write the song. We look at the tie between TV programmes and their theme tunes.
Middle East authors a magnet at the prestigious Hay festival
Middle East authors are the centre of attention at the final weekend of the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, an annual celebration of culture in the Welsh countryside.
A Broadway flop in 1988, Stephen King's Carrie set for a stage revival
Once the laughing stock of Broadway, a new stage version of Stephen King's Carrie is to be revived in New York in January.
Author Jennifer Egan is one prized writer
Jennifer Egan talks to The National about how winning the Pullitzer for her book A Visit From The Goon Squad has (and hasn't) changed her career.
Silent movies no longer regarded as a thing of the past
Silent movies have long been regarded as a relic of cinema's past. But a flurry of successful films with no dialogue - one of which is being tipped for a Best Picture Oscar - has changed that perception.
Peru's Santiago Roncagliolo uses a thriller to probe his country's past
The Peruvian author Santiago Roncagliolo, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, uses a crime thriller to examine the problems of his nation in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Beat depression - visit a museum, says new study
A new study has found that people who go to museums and concerts, enjoy films or the theatre, genuinely are happier, healthier and less anxious.
Author Philip Roth feels the wrath
The row over the Man Booker International Prize joins a long line of literary award controversies.
Lady Gaga bumps Oprah down the Forbes list
During the week of Oprah's last ever TV chat show, Lady Gaga moves into the number-one position on Forbes magazine's Celebrity Power List.
Dubstep's giant steps
Wondering what all this talk of dubstep is about? Here's a beginner's guide to the musical genre that's just hit the mainstream.
Medical dramas still grip audiences worldwide
As House enters its eighth (and as Laurie says) final season, we look at medical series' and examine what makes them so popular.
Mixed up memories
Aminatta Forna's latest Orange Prize-nominated book, The Memory of Love, tackles love and death in Sierra Leone,
