From Bruegel to Nabokov and The Silence of the Lambs, butterflies have flitted through our imaginations and into our culture. Patrick Barkham pins up the choice specimens – and finds out why new film The Duke of Burgundy is awash with them
While bookstores and record shops close their doors, squeezed out by the online competition, the gallery still offers something the internet can’t: real-life art
Working as Naomi Campbell’s agent earned Carole White no shortage of tasty anecdotes for her memoir. Here are seven of the best
New figures from Nielsen BookScan show continuing decline since 2009 as more and more readers migrate to ebooks
A special edition of the crime-fiction king’s new novel will include a five-course dinner with the author, gold binoculars – and a very limited time to read it
The line between celebration and exploitation is a fine one – and I’m not really sure my literary hero should be fronting a fashion advertisement