The humbug of war
Hay festival: Martin Kettle: As the spat over the 65th D-Day memorial and Antony Beevor's book reveal, there is pain and brutality behind the heroic myth
A disarming encounter
Hay festival: Joe Queenan: Thank heaven for folk who still read books, as opposed to carrying guns and knives. They're an easier audience to please
Leeds Modern and ancient
Hay festival: Martin Kettle: I feel I know Alan Bennett as we share a Headingley upbringing. But it's a literary persona, not the man, we really connect with
Documentary on intensive pig farming faces legal threat
World's largest pork processor Smithfield Foods hits back at criticisms in Pig Business
Hay festival: Was there ever a golden age of reading?
Complaints about dumbing down are nothing new, argued Stefan Collini at the Hay festival, but are literary festivals and reading groups signs of a thriving literary culture?
Hay cuts
Audience questions is where Guardian Hay festival-goers are revealed in all their variegated glory
Archishop’s sermon: you can find God in Eliot, Austen and even Philip Pullman
Rowan Williams delivers evensong at Hay-on-Wye in front of audience of 250 - including Desmond Tutu
Rowan, Dostoevsky and a world without God
Mark Vernon: Hay festival: On a good day for God at Hay, AN Wilson talked to Rowan Williams and Richard Bauckham won the Michael Ramsay prize
Hay cuts
Charlotte Higgins on the latest from the festival, including extra security for Ruth Padel
The great £10 book-buying challenge
Diana Quick and David Nicholls spend a tenner on second-hand books at Hay. Stephen Moss looks at what they bought
How to talk Pestonian: a Shakespearean masterclass
Stephen Moss thinks his dull monotone is holding him back. So he pleads for a quick lesson with Robert Peston
Buddy, can you spare a rhyme?
Among the deckchairs of the Hay festival, Aida Edemariam asks who can recite any poetry
What the future looks like
As the planet faces the most dangerous century in its 4.5bn-year history, astronomer royal Martin Rees looks into his crystal ball
Nose to nose: a long-running debate finally settled
Most entertaining question at Hay so far: who has the prettier nose, Jane Birkin or Brigitte Bardot?
Welcome to our yurt
A stream of speakers have been taking a breather in G2's Hay home over the last few days: Jake Chapman hated it, Ed Miliband said it was the best he'd seen, Heston Blumenthal just wondered where the roast lamb was. All were grilled by Jon Henley