Lady Chatterley’s legal case: how the book changed the meaning of obscene
Sixty years on from the obscenity trial of Penguin Books, Lady Chatterley’s Lover remains a symbol for freedom of expression
From everyteen to annoying: are today’s young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye?
JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield once seemed the universal voice of teenage angst, but now he’s too quaint for young people. Can we learn to love it again, asks Dana Czapnik
Sir Fergus Millar obituary
Classicist whose work transformed the study of ancient history
Bryan Magee obituary
Writer, philosopher and broadcaster who became an MP for Labour and the SDP
Jerome Ch’en obituary
Historian of modern China, cut off from his roots, who rued the rise of the military and the Communist conquest
School textbooks are on the way out – and pupils will lose so much with them
New generations will miss the memories bound up with the sight and smell of books, says Sam Leith, literary editor of the Spectator
Pearson shifts to Netflix-style subscription model for textbooks
Academic publisher hopes to convince students to subscribe to access online materials
The Guardian view on the creative self: it needs more than 15 minutes
Editorial: Britons need time and space to release their imagination. It would be good for them and for their country
William Gray obituary
Literary critic whose multidisciplinary perspective revealed the existential depth of fairytales and fantasy
How to Train Your Dragon author Cressida Cowell named new children’s laureate
The author and illustrator comes to role with ‘giant to-do list’, which includes making school libraries a legal requirement, and more time for creativity
Norman Stone obituary
Historian and controversial media commentator who taught at Cambridge, Oxford and in Turkey
Forest schools: is yours more a marketing gimmick than an outdoors education?
Some UK schools have merely jumped on the bandwagon of the popular Scandinavian idea, a new book argues
Alice Oswald elected Oxford professor of poetry by huge margin
Oswald will be the first woman to serve in the role, established three centuries ago
Nicholas Sparks defends diversity record at school after emails leak
Author of The Notebook and school’s co-founder says emails to former headmaster are ‘not news’ ahead of trial in August
What Cambridge University taught us about racism
Cambridge graduates Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi on their guide for fellow students, published by Stormzy’s #Merky Books