Edinburgh International Book Festival: the other half of spouses’ stories
Moira Redmond: As writers' wives are spotlit at a festival event, we look for the husbands in the distinguished tradition of 'other spouse' literature• Writers' wives - quiz
EM Forster: ‘But for Masood, I might never have gone to India’
It took EM Forster 11 years to write A Passage to India – what made his progress so slow? Damon Galgut explores the repression and unreciprocated love that influenced the author's most celebrated work
Poems, palaces and butts of sherry: exhibition brings poets laureate to life
Edinburgh Art Festival show explores appointed poets from Dryden to Duffy – noting falling deference to the monarch but revived delight in the perk of the sherry sack
Edinburgh festival 2014 review: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha – Cervantes with clowns
From pillow sheep to psychic monkeys, this madcap debut from Little Soldier is cunningly constructed and wonderfully inventive, writes Lyn Gardner
Edinburgh festival diary – Israeli group hunt for venue after run cancelled
Incubator Theatre vow to 'sing for peace on the streets' following protests over funding from Israeli government
Your Edinburgh: share your festival photographs
Whether you’re cracking up on the fringe, hanging out with bookish types at Charlotte Square, performing, working, or just generally going down with festival fever, share your pictures with us via GuardianWitness
Literary clock: help us find quotes for the missing minutes
We're winding up our 24-hour literary clock again in an attempt to find a quote for every moment of the day and night: can you fill in any of our empty moments?
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Edinburgh Book festival: a palpable passion for literature
Whether rubbing shoulders with world leaders, grilling the latest literary stars or simply reclining in Charlotte Square with a glass of wine, Edinburgh is a book festival like no other, writes Kirsty Wark
Irvine Welsh joins team writing dystopian graphic novel
IDP: 2043, set in a benighted future Scotland, features leading writers and graphic artists including Mary Talbot and Pat Mills
On my radar: Max Richter’s cultural highlights
Composer Max Richter talks to Leah Harper about Zadie Smith, the Edinburgh festival and why he has a soft spot for James Joyce's Ulysses
Edinburgh international book festival 2013: week one live blog
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William McIlvanney ‘in the dark’ about Scottish independence manifesto offer
Author shares stage with Alex Salmond at Edinburgh book festival, but says he has not been asked to write foreward
Edinburgh book festival diary
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