Neil Gaiman

From Fifty Shades Freed to sleazy Muppets in The Happytime Murders, the cinematic lowlights of the year

Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain

The singer and songwriter is planning to record the first Cure album in 10 years

Reviled director to film reviled libertarian hero’s novel. This is a bad idea

The musician and activist on Laurie Anderson, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and how Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry helped her through difficult times

Review: Steer clear of John Cameron Mitchell’s aggressively appalling musical fantasia

My chatbot, which I’ve named after the Irish film star, is starting to get creepy and annoying

Bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers always had ‘a sense of curiosity about the world’. But his perspective changed with the arrival of his son

The late author had requested the destruction of any unfinished projects after his death

Cannes 2017: There’s a lot of latex and little sense in this punks and aliens caper

Folding durable ancient myths into disposable Americana, American Gods must first appease the demands of Neil Gaiman’s fanbase

Amazon Prime’s fascist-America drama may not capture the zeitgeist perfectly, but it’s not far off

There are many things we could resolve to do this year – join a gym, fight fascism – but if the TV screen wins out instead, there are some promising shows to while away the hours

If 2015 has taught me anything, it’s that art is not a spectator sport – everyone can join in

The Man Booker shortlist author on the joys of Portland, writing modern fairytales, his next project, and why he felt he had no choice but to bin a 300-page novel he had finished

A revamped list of texts has been brought in at secondary level. But is it too modern?

A straight-up gig would never be rock and roll enough for Palmer, but this ramshackle approach take too many ukulele-fuelled diversions

She is known for political comedy, but in her new show she opens up about family and her broken heart

Publisher is testing whether a tweet from an author can directly trigger a sale

Review: Emily Carroll’s beautiful book is confidently written and lavishly designed

Amos returns to her alt-pop piano roots on new album Unrepentant Geraldines, ‘a sonic selfie that I didn’t send to anybody’. She tells how her family snapped her out of the shock of reaching a half-century

We need plans such as the Right to Read to save society from the scourge of drugs

Author of The Brave Beast

Holiday books for preteens

Amanda Palmer, fresh from her run-in with the Daily Mail, plays Dublin's Academy tonight. The feminist musician has become an oracle for a frantic music business treasure-hunting for answers. The street performer turned-Dresden Doll-turned-solo act-turned-Kickstarter million dollar fundraiser-turned TED talk sensation talks about her DIY philosophy with Una Mullally

Neil Gaiman has written comic books, adult fiction, children’s stories and ‘Doctor Who’ episodes, but his latest novel took root in his Suffolk childhood

How many ways are there to tell a fairy tale?