Risky business
Ros Taylor: Hay Festival 2008: Rory Stewart offers a very different vision from the certainty that led to war in Afghanistan and Iraq
Hay festival: Irving wrestles with control issues
John Irving's characters may do exactly what he tells them to do, but the world outside is not so compliant
Hay festival: Amis at full throttle
Martin Amis's take on the great geopolitical issues of the day is relishable not for his analysis but for his phrases - and what phrases
Hay festival: ‘The Woodstock of the mind’
The rain came, but the enthusiasm of the people who really make the festival what it is - the visitors - remained undampened
Hay festival: Chick lit’s not all fluff
Marian Keyes never lets the darker side of her fiction take over. Doesn't that make her chick-lit blockbusters just as realistic as literary fiction?
Stop digging!
John Harris: Hay festival 2008: Martin Amis should return to fiction. Global politics are not his strong point
Hay festival: Is the political novel dead?
The latest round of political memoirs leaves no room for novelists to offer intimate bulletins from Westminster. But fiction should aspire to more than gossip
Hay festival: Ranging and raging
I regret missing Jimmy Carter, but I regret missing the opportunity to protest the children's age-ranging debate more
Festival competition: Who would you like to see at Hay?
I'd like to see Montaigne, the essayist. But tell us who you'd most like to see at Hay for the chance to win a prize
Hay festival: Alan Weisman looks forward to nature
What would the world be like if we left it to itself?
Hay festival: A Valentine to the festival
With both my husband and myself appearing on the programme, this year's Hay festival has been a little different
Bolton dodges attempted ‘war crimes’ arrest
Environmental campaigner George Monbiot challenges the former Bush official at Hay festival over war in Iraq
Hay Festival: Does philosophy have a future?
Philosophy may be going through a bad patch at present but that's not to say that asking the big questions all a waste of time - or is it?
Hay Festival: Charlie Higson is the Bond canon’s Ken Dodd
It's remarkable that Higson's books remain faithful to Bond without including cigarettes, booze, sex and shooting people, and with such aplomb
Why is the book world threatened by gamers?
Aleks Krotoski: There's a shift afoot in storytelling, one unavoidably inspired by computer games and new technologies