Harper Lee

HeadStuff is currently publishing a series of weekly articles on how the journalistic process is depicted on film – the intense research involved in the practice, the time it takes to articulate a story, and the false intimacies that come…

News Have you ever bunked off work to go to head to the cinema, or play dice in an alleyway? It turns out you're not alone. Fidel Castro liked to pass the time by pouring over the manuscripts of Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez,…

In as much as it’s possible to make such a statement, To Kill a Mockingbird is a perfect book; the rare modern literary classic that everyone has actually read. (If someone found an earlier, radically different draft of, say, Ulysses, it’s…

The Prophets are Weeping President Michael D Higgins has released a new poem tackling extremism and displacement inspired by the flight of people in Northern Iraq and Syria. The poem was completed before the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris…

Go Set a Watchman released by Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman, a new book by Harper Lee and the sequel to the iconic To Kill A Mockingbird, will be released this summer, a mere 55 years after the release of the 88 year old’s award winning…