Hay Segovia: Three Englishmen in Spain
Paul Hamilos: This year's Hay festival in Segovia showed Spaniards peering at themselves through outsiders' eyes
War criminals must fear punishment. That’s why I went for John Bolton
George Monbiot: As long as the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted, we all have a duty to keep the truth alive
McEwan sees funny side of climate change in novel reading
Author surprises audiences at the Hay festival with an unexpected preview of his latest work
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