No one would listen to Stephen Fry if he was poor
The actor sneers at child sex abuse victims and says free speech is being stifled. But he is part of the 1% who enjoy a platform – it’s ordinary people who struggle to be heard
Doreen Massey obituary
Radical geographer, feminist, theorist and political activist admired worldwide for her work on space, place and power
Finland ranked world’s most literate nation
Report pooling studies of ‘literate behaviour characteristics’ from around the world puts the Nordic country first, 16 places ahead of the UK
Keith Jeffery obituary
Historian who wrote on the British and Irish military and chronicled the early years of MI6
Senegal’s founding president’s poetry heard in native language for first time
The late Léopold Sédar Senghor was a renowned poet but only recently has a significant volume of his work been translated from French to Serer
Who would be a librarian now? You know what, I’ll have a go
My friends laugh at me but training to be a professional librarian is a sort of calling – like becoming a priest, only with warmer business premises
Book lovers smash quiz world record for World Book Day
Over six thousand readers take a new Guinness World Records title for World Book Day
Originals by Adam Grant; The End of Average by Todd Rose review – how to innovate and excel
Two US academics debunk common assumptions about potential and success
Why is London’s Garden Bridge worth as much as five Lancashire museums? Ask Joanna Lumley
While RIBA calls for an investigation into how a £60m footbridge was approved after Lumley’s meeting at her old chum Boris Johnson’s offices, there are closures in the north. I know why some people hate London
Let’s hope the justice ministry teaches Gove to regret killing Mockingbird
The novel tells a moral tale that in today’s divided and unequal world teenagers need to study more than ever
Libraries saved me, now they need rescuing
Books provide access to a better way of life, and for many, libraries are the only way they can get to them. That is why I am campaigning to save them and you should, too
Marvin Minsky obituary
Pioneer of artificial intelligence research
Libraries and schools need free author visits, so I set up YA Shot
Cuts to library funding in schools and community mean author visits are a luxury that only some can afford, that’s why author Alexia Casale founded the YA Shot festival and programme to partner libraries and schools for author visits – here’s how your library system can apply to be part of YA Shot
Free love or genocide? The trouble with Utopias
Ever since Thomas More wrote Utopia 500 years ago, visionaries from William Morris to Ursula K Le Guin have dreamed of ideal worlds. But beneath the fig-leaf of fiction, the results are often bland – or bloody
It’s time for a virtual tea break and to draw together
Most illustrators spend a lot of time alone… and many eat a lot of toast to comfort themselves. That’s why Sarah McIntyre has made a Twitter-based virtual studio tea break that everyone can join in with