Historian Niall Ferguson warns of debt calamity threatening the west
Britain at risk of going bust, says the Harvard professor who scorns economists
From comic cuts to bonkbusting bankers
How the arts are responding to the credit crunch
Google faces antitrust investigation over $125m book deal
Google is facing fresh accusations of anti-competitive behaviour, with the US Justice Department investigating the internet giant over its dealings with the book industry
Confessions of an investment banker
Aditya Chakrabortty: Tetsuya Ishikawa's novel promises to lift the lid on the men behind of the financial meltdown, but is fiction really the right genre?
The intelligentsia blockbuster
Bidisha: It's what the publishing world needs to prime the recovery pumps: a perfect meeting of high culture and base materialism – aka art lit
Teenagers’ credit note approach to fund £1m film of Clovis Dardentor
Trio raise £105,000 for Jules Verne adaptation by charging members of the public £1 to appear in the credits
‘Gay writing’ falls foul of Amazon sales ranking system
Online retailer blames reduced profiles of Winterson, Hollinghurst, Vidal and others on glitch in new family-friendly charts
The crunch chronicles: ten books that try to make sense of global chaos
From Margaret Atwood's Payback to False Dawn by John Gray: where to begin reading about the recession
Google is just an amoral menace
Henry Porter: The ever-growing empire produces nothing but seems determined to control everything
Bloomsbury losing magic without Potter
Bloomsbury can no longer rely upon its biggest name - Harry Potter - to bail it out if the recession deepens
The sordid legacy of the end of empire
Nick Cohen: The on-field drama in Antigua couldn't hope to match the exposure of Stanford's rotten regime
Shakespeare scholarship: a race to the Bottom?
John Sutherland on how the demands of publishing are conflicting with scholarship on Shakespeare
Waterstone’s joins the ranks of high street retailers shedding jobs
200 redundancies expected as book chain introduces cost-cutting measures following poor sales
Bloomsbury turns from Harry to Hamlet after boy wizard bows out
Publisher follows acquisition of Wisden almanack with purchase of Arden Shakespeare
So much for ‘late’ capitalism
Anna Shapiro: Greed, speculation, bust, misery ... our present economic woes are right there, along with all human life, in Charles Dickens