Story by Rod Serling, Twilight Zone creator, published after 70 years
Daughters of TV great write introductions to First Squad, First Platoon, a story of war in the Pacific released by Strand Magazine
Martin Bax obituary
Paediatrician specialising in child development and novelist who founded the literary periodical Ambit
The Freaks Came Out to Write review – how the Village Voice changed American journalism
Tricia Romano’s entertaining oral history of the radical New York newspaper is an elegy to a rough and ready era of punch-ups and passion
Tim Hilton obituary
Journalist, biographer of John Ruskin and brilliant art critic who wrote for the Guardian and Independent on Sunday
Anthony Holden obituary
Journalist, author and poker player who worked for the Sunday Times and became music critic of the Observer
Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure
More than £3,000 raised to keep the Student – founded in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh University – going
Jared Kushner pressured Washington Post to fire editor over Russia, book says
Marty Baron says Trump’s son-in-law leaned on Post publisher to withdraw support of Russia election interference investigation
‘Insulting’: Beano fans pour scorn on UK government advert
Anger at ‘created in London’ tagline on poster of Dennis the Menace, who was made by a cartoonist in Dundee
The White Review literary magazine ceases publishing
A statement cited increased costs and removal of UK state funding as the magazine, which featured writers including Paul Murray, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Sally Rooney, is to consider its future
The Times review: how the newspaper of record survived – and thrived
Adam Nagourney’s rigorous reporting shines, though he misses chances to illuminate less well-known parts of the story
Enter the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2024
The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is now opened for submissions
‘We’re gripped by graphomania’: why writing became an online contagion and how we can contain it
Conspiracy theories, provocations, baseless accusations… long before our clickbait era, women in pre-revolutionary France were the subject of salacious attacks. Their response offers hope for us all
Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer
Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele
At 48, I should be inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow and her abs. But they make me want to throw things
You want a middle-aged woman to run an ultramarathon or start a wellness empire? Can’t I just have a breakdown? writes Emma Beddington
Al Jaffee, legendary Mad magazine cartoonist, dies aged 102
The artist behind the magazine’s famous “fold-in” drawing, Jaffee was Mad’s longest-tenured contributor and only retired when he was 99