Gordon Brown at the Edinburgh international book festival: flat as a pancake
Oh dear Gordon: where did it all go wrong?
Connery ‘exclusive’ headlines Edinburgh festival
Launch of Sir Sean Connery's memoirs to top bill at 2008's Edinburgh book festival
Thomas biopic to headline Edinburgh film festival
The Edge of Love, a film about the life and loves of the poet Dylan Thomas, has been selected as the opening night gala for this year's Edinburgh international film festival
Lord of the dance
David Greig, whose new version of The Bacchae swept the Edinburgh festival, explains why we need to listen to the words of Euripides now more than ever.
A cultural success story
Iain Macwhirter: The Edinburgh festival is a huge hit every year - and this merits the recognition and the involvement of Britain's great cultural institutions.
Would you sit through a six-hour play?
Our culture may be defined by the soundbite and the text message but it seems we like our books, films and plays to be of epic proportions.
My week: Irvine Welsh
The author pays tribute to an old friend, takes his new short film, Nuts, to the Edinburgh Festival and celebrates a wedding. Meanwhile, there's the tricky problem of how to stop his mum stalking him.
Coat
This romantic comedy inspired by Gogol is genuinely touching but over-complicated, writes Lyn Gardner.
Reith’s daughter tells of his volcanic moods
Marista Leishman, the daughter of Lord Reith, told the Edinburgh international book festival of her childhood dodging her father's 'volcanic moods'. By Charlotte Higgins.
Signing off with Chekhov and chuckles
Edinburgh diary: I bumped into a pal last week - let's call him Simon - who was wearing a chalkstripe suit, looking furious and gesticulating wildly at the book festival's camp on Charlotte Square. 'When are your arty friends all going to bugger off?' he bellowed.
Two-act rant from Sean and Harold
On opposite sides of Edinburgh, two grand septuagenarians - each, in his different way, a British cultural icon - have taken the opportunity to vent their respective spleens.
‘We’ve got madness in the family’
Nina Raine is one of theatre's brightest talents. Does having a famous poet for a father help? By Maddy Costa.
Love in a time of terror
Michel Houellebecq caused a furore with his novel, Platform. So who better to adapt it for stage than 'the Quentin Tarantino of opera', Calixto Bieito? By Stuart Jeffries.
The body beautiful
Despite their monumental proportions and meticulous detail, Ron Mueck's sculptures are also understated. It is this that gives them their unsettling power, writes Craig Raine.