Marvel and DC face backlash over pay: ‘They sent a thank you note and $5,000 – the movie made $1bn’
As the comics giants make billions from their storylines and characters, writers and artists are speaking out about their struggles for fair payment
If the government cared about free speech, it would reform the London libel industry
Recent action against a book about Putin shows what can happen when journalism collides with the English legal system, says senior lecturer in law Justin Borg-Barthet
Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art
When a lewd cartoon of Rupert Bear landed the editors of the 60s counterculture paper in court, David Hockney, John Lennon, Robert Crumb and more made some of their most urgent art in response
Twitter admits it verified fake account of author Cormac McCarthy
Reclusive US novelist’s agent confirms he did not share his opinions about kombucha and SoundCloud
OnlyFans isn’t revolutionising sex work, and using it ruined things I once did for personal pleasure
The site gives more visibility to a certain type of sex work, but like all social media, it invades every aspect of your life
Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana biopic to screen at Venice film festival
Spencer, telling the story of Diana and Charles’s bitter divorce, will battle for the Golden Lion alongside the latest by Pedro Almodóvar
How we made Viz: ‘We printed 150 copies for £42.52’
‘There were complaints that The Fat Slags stereotyped women as sex objects – but they were using their sexuality to get what they wanted, so it was quite the opposite’
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne review – Hogarthian remorselessness
Boyne taps into the spirit of late-period Tom Sharpe in a relentless satire of social media centred around a chatshow host
I Alone Can Fix It: Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker on their Trump bestseller
The Washington Post reporters have unleashed a second startling story of incompetence and malevolence in the White House
The Last Letter from Your Lover review – sappy romance is nothing to write home about
The adaptation of Jojo Moyes’s 2012 novel, starring Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones, toggles between two love stories and shortchanges both
Michael Wolff: Murdoch hates Trump but loves Fox News money more
In book, Wolff says that Murdoch personally approved network’s early call of Arizona, which signalled Trump’s defeat
Priscilla Johnson McMillan obituary
Journalist, author and historian who knew both President John F Kennedy and his alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
Michael Horovitz obituary
Iconoclastic poet, editor and leading light of British counterculture during the 1950s and 60s
Rupert Murdoch approved Fox News Arizona call that signaled Trump defeat, book says
Loss of state signalled Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat but Murdoch reportedly said: ‘Fuck him’
The Cat Person debate shows how fiction writers use real life does matter
Kristen Roupenian’s viral 2017 short story is again being debated, now over her alleged use of details drawn from life. The questions this raises do not have neat answers