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Ali Smith, Phill Jupitus and Roger Scruton: Edinburgh international book festival round-up
From poetry to provocation, on film and in person, catch up with the highlights of a packed and wide-ranging weekend
Eve according to Christos Tsiolkas
Claire Armitstead: The author of The Slap and Barracuda is delighted that a short story he wrote for the Edinburgh book festival has been described as 'feminist'
Do you hear voices? You are not alone
Ben Alderson-Day: Auditory verbal hallucinations or ‘hearing voices’ is not restricted to people who have a form of psychosis. For many, the voices provide support and guidance or have a spiritual aspect
Edinburgh 2014 review: Letters Home – reinvents the short story for the stage
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kamila Shamsie and other authors push the theatrical boundaries of narrative, writes Claire Armitstead
Why The Hunger Games’ killer Katniss is a great female role model
Katniss Everdeen, heroine of The Hunger Games, is spiky and hard to like; but her qualities are so much more admirable than Twilight’s mopey vampire-lover Bella, writes Samantha Ellis
Edinburgh festival 2014 review – Spine: angry blast at society that denies knowledge
A troubled teenager and elderly woman bond over library books in Clara Brennan's fierce one-woman play starring Rosie Wyatt, writes Lyn Gardner
Will Self Q&A – as it happened
How he built that huge vocabulary to what he had for breakfast: author and journalist Will Self answered your questions in a live webchat. What did he have to say?
Alain de Botton in quotes: “The news promotes a toxic society of envy”
Why celebrity role models are OK, smartphones are not, and we should all be more biased than the BBC. An hour of philosophical crowd-pleasing distilled into key quotes
Hearing voices: what’s your experience when reading?
A study is looking into how readers hear (or don’t) the voices of the characters in their heads when they read – and going beyond that by examining the medical, scientific and spiritual aspects of hearing voices. What’s your experience?
EM Forster: ‘But for Masood, I might never have gone to India’
It took EM Forster 11 years to write A Passage to India – what made his progress so slow? Damon Galgut explores the repression and unreciprocated love that influenced the author's most celebrated work
Edinburgh festival 2014 review: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha – Cervantes with clowns
From pillow sheep to psychic monkeys, this madcap debut from Little Soldier is cunningly constructed and wonderfully inventive, writes Lyn Gardner
Edinburgh festival diary – Israeli group hunt for venue after run cancelled
Incubator Theatre vow to 'sing for peace on the streets' following protests over funding from Israeli government
Your Edinburgh: share your festival photographs
Whether you’re cracking up on the fringe, hanging out with bookish types at Charlotte Square, performing, working, or just generally going down with festival fever, share your pictures with us via GuardianWitness
Comic-Con 2014: authors flourish in spotlight as Young Adult genre grows up
From panels to the autograph area, Comic-Con 2014 is filled with successful writers who started out as fans