Death of the bookworm

Michael Rosen: Children are being taught to read at school – but not to love books' complexity and depth. It's a national disgrace

Let’s hear it for the autodidact

John Sutherland: Sean Connery's memoir is surprising, not least because the actor emerges from its thoughtful pages as self-taught: how inspiring

Michael Baxandall

Obituary: Influential art historian noted for his perspicacity and scholarly approach

Please put a sock in it – this is a library

Hephzibah Anderson: Once as essential to libraries as books themselves, silence is now as elusive as that stolen copy of Lord of the Flies

Losing one’s place at the British Library

There's nowhere to sit at the British Library, but don't blame the students, says John Sutherland

Sats: literally failing

Michael Rosen: The government is still wedded to Sats. Why, when the tests emphasise rote learning and cramp imaginations?

No school like home

Home education can be 'astonishingly efficient', says a new study. Jessica Shepherd meets the children who don't go to school

Of ivory towers and coups d’etat

David Shariatmadari: Ann Lambton, one of the world's great Iranologists, has died. What drew her to the subject, and what was her legacy?

‘Extreme behaviour was the norm’

The Salford teacher who went to jail for firing an air pistol has now written a book. David Ward meets her

Cecil Todes

Obituary: Psychiatrist who wrote a frank book about his battle with Parkinson's

Breathless with amazement

Polly Toynbee and David Walker accompany Brent school students on a visit to Oxford

Critics’ choice

The book: The Usborne History of Britain by Ruth Brocklehurst et al

Missing Shakespeare: stolen First Folio surfaces in US

Long wait is over for £15m British literary treasure last seen in 1998

Critics’ choice

The book: The Bare Bum Gang and the Football Face-Off | Even Stevens FC