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The Beach Boys legendary album Smile is finally to be released this year, more than 40 years after it was originally recorded.

The international best-seller Alone in Berlin gets an added twist with the discovery of a chapter no one knew existed.

As the Smithsonian Museum asks the public to vote on which videogames should be included in a forthcoming exhibition, we take a look at the history of videogame art.

Manu Joseph, whose debut novel Serious Men is a contender for the Man Asian Literary Prize, takes an uncompromising look at modern India through the eyes of an 'anti-hero' from the Dalit caste.

The sculptor objects to changes made to his work of art, and it fails to sell at auction.

Worried that the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature will expose some embarrassing gaps in your knowledge? Read our crib notes on what to say about the biggest names attending, from Margaret Atwood to Wole Soyinka.

The Canadian author talks about novels, poetry and technology before she visits Dubai for the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.

Ahead of her appearance at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, the biographer Hilary Spurling talks about how she gets inside her subjects' heads.

The discovery of the wreck of a ship commanded by the skipper who inspired Moby-Dick shines a light on the fascinating back-story to Herman Melville's classic novel.

New poetry is gaining real momentum - meaning there's no excuse for unthinkingly copying out the old favourites any more.

With two of this year's Oscar front-runners based on true stories but not strictly faithful to the facts, we look at the relationship between art and truth.

We go behind the scenes at the Google Art Project and talk to one of the project leaders about how it was done, and what it means for the future of art.