Are computer games a literary genre?

A waste of words, or the driving element in modern gaming? Our writers beg to differ...

Nothing to write home about

Jill Papworth asks whether a writing competition for school-children is just a marketing exercise

Ed Balls seeks power to dictate what textbooks GCSE and A-level students must study

The law would allow the government to set 'minimum requirements' for qualifications

British Library mislays 9,000 books

Text worth £20,000 and a luxury edition of Mein Kampf among missing volumes

Shelved – did Kremlin make my Stalin book disappear?

Russian publisher Atticus cancels publication of acclaimed book by scholar Orlando Figes about life under Stalin

The Bible quiz – it’s revelations time

Quin Parker: Following poet Andrew Motion's pronouncement that young people have terrible Bible knowledge, we decided to test you, good reader. And here's how you did ...

The myths of ‘ancient Greece’ dispelled

Charlotte Higgins: Paul Cartledge, the first ever professor of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge, aims to promote the public understanding of the Greek world

Quiz: How much do you know about the Bible?

According to poet Andrew Motion, to read and understand literature we need to understand the Bible. Test your knowledge of Bible stories from both Old and New Testaments

The essential Bible stories

The top five stories from the good book

Poems which passeth understanding

Some verses that draw on the Bible

Book of revelation

All children should be taught the Bible at school, says Andrew Motion. Without the great stories, they cannot hope to understand history and literature. Janet Murray reports