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Those who love short-form fiction have had reason to cheer recently: the success of high profile competitions such as the BBC Short Story award, Sunday Times EFG Short Story award and the new Costa Short Story award; and now Alice Munro winning the Nobel after several decades of producing quietly brilliant volumes. A literary form

A collection of rare photographs of samurai presented by Daniella Dangoor is being exhibited at The London Photograph Fair. Most photographs purporting to be of samurai are actually not and were taken after 1877, when the samurai system was abolished. These images are of genuine samurai, taken between 1860 and 1877. The photographs in the

A year after the invasion of Ukraine, the writing is on the wall for Russias president You can order your own copy of this cartoon Chris Riddell Sat 25 Feb 2023 13.00EST Last modified on Fri 17 Mar 2023 08.53EDT

Gary Chilton, whose father, Chris, scored a record 222 goals for Hull City, accuses the PFA of treating former players with dementia like the elephant in the room Ten days ago the Chilton family were at breaking point. Chris Chilton, 77, was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease and vascular dementia in 2012. Eight years later he

Buford returns to his love affair with cooking in this engaging, if garrulous, account of working in a top Lyon restaurant It has taken Bill Buford a long time to give us Dirt. His last book, Heat, which detailed his macho adventures in the Italian kitchen, came out in 2006. But then, as he admits,