Paul Kriwaczek obituary
Television education producer and writer on the ancient world
Legal battles against cuts are worth fighting
Jon Robins: From tuition fees to library closures, charities and individuals are challenging in court the coalition's attempts to roll back the state
Working-class lives, in writing
Meredith Tax: The voices of ordinary working people in the US once had their own media. But writing classes can reinvent that empowerment
Cheesy poems get a new audience
McGonagall and McIntyre, two of Scotland's 'persistent bad poets', are remembered with new public recitals
Feminism: What does the F-word mean today?
When the Observer asked Annie Lennox to chair a discussion for Women's Day, the singer and social activist gathered five other high-flying women to find out what equality means to them – and how feminism can galvanise the next generation
Wanted: young readers
The Guardian launches a new adult-free books website for children
In praise of … manuscripts for the nation
Editorial: To be able to trace the way plot and character have evolved in novels is an invaluable legacy
Teacher who put pupils into their own sex’n’drugs novel awaits tribunal result
English teacher was sacked for gross misconduct over book containing sexual references and swearwords
Keep the books safe
AL Kennedy: As my decorator attempts to repair the disintegrating fabric of my flat, rather more alarming signs of collapse are besetting education
Brighton Rock tours help university engage with local people
Sussex University academic's tours of Brighton's murky past have been given a boost by new film version of Graham Greene's classic novel
The Guardian rosetta: the Datablog reference guide to nearly everything
Looking for ISO country codes? This is now the place to come. We want to make it easier to map data and keep it consistent. Take a look at our reference guide to IDs, codes and names and see how you can help make it better• Get the data
Christopher Pemberton obituary
Artist, scholar, teacher and translator with a deep affinity for the work of Cézanne
Brian Simpson obituary
Leading academic lawyer in the field of legal history, legal philosophy and human rights
Salinger: a burger-lover in the rye
Kathryn Hughes: As JD Salinger would have recognised, his letters show that Great Writers are not great all the time
Join the Campaign for Fun!
On what is officially the most miserable day of the year, it's a very good time to sign up to a drive to make children's reading fun again