The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – review
While it is always visually extraordinary, it is totally uninvolving, writes Lyn Gardner
Simon Hoggart’s week: festival folks flip between jokes and soaks
Wet Edinburgh is the place to plug a book, see a familial fringe foray and hear the one about the magician and the media baron
Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation
Playwright's biographer, Christopher Bigsby, defends work produced in later years at Edinburgh book festival
An Evening with David Sedaris – review
David Sedaris comfortably holds his own against all the other standups on the fringe, writes Brian Logan
Tell us about your Edinburgh international book festival
The books team are heading to Edinburgh and we'd like to invite you to join in too
The literary map of Edinburgh
Explore Edinburgh with this literary map of the city
Edinburgh festival 2011: Soak it up!
Sign up for a dance marathon, catch the Chinese Romeo and Juliet – and don't miss Harry Potter getting cut down to size. Our critics pick the best of this year's Edinburgh festival
The Earl of Harewood obituary
Grandson of George V whose work with English National Opera helped transform British attitudes
Jackie Kay for Scotland’s national poet!
Most of the candidates for Scotland's top poetry job were in attendance at the festival - but there can be only one choice, writes Charlotte Higgins
Dragons’ Pen rampages at Edinburgh
Only one of the budding authors presenting their pitches at the Edinburgh festival went home in tears, writes Charlotte Higgins
McSex and McSweeney’s at the Edinburgh book festival
The Edinburgh international book festival has let down its hair with a series of relaxed, free evening events, writes Charlotte Higgins
Candia McWilliam, AS Byatt and the ethics of the memoir
Are memoirists vampires and thieves, who inevitably reduce those about whom they write?
Laminated loneliness of the blind author
Candia McWilliam describes her fluctuating sight to an audience at the Edinburgh international book festival
Book festivals bring out the brains in Britons
Jonathan Jones: Turn off the TV, put down the papers, and take a tour of Britain's book festivals. We are a lot more cultured than you think
Andrew O’Hagan’s all-conquering dog
Andrew O'Hagan imported a trio of actors to "do" the voices in his latest, canine-narrated novel, which features Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and a dog called Maf, writes Charlotte Higgins