Carrie Gracie: ‘I learned about equal pay the hard way’

When the BBC’s China editor Carrie Gracie found out she was earning much less than her male colleagues, she decided to do the unthinkable: take on her employer

In lieu of Ian McKellen’s own memoirs, a new biography offers revelations

After the actor abandoned a £1m book deal, an old friend took up the baton. John Humphrys, meanwhile, gears up for his own memoir…

Rape is not ‘sex’, and ‘broken hearts’ don’t cause murder. Women are dying – and language matters

A year after Jill Meagher was murdered, Tracy Connelly was too. The different ways each crime was reported speaks volumes

The future looks bleak for the restoration of William Blake’s cottage

ITV News has the clearest take on our own bleak futures, while cinemagoers are getting younger all the time

Mark Halperin attempts comeback after #MeToo accusations with Trump book

Halperin, who was accused of sexual misconduct by at least a dozen women at ABC News, to release book on how to beat Trump

Behind the Screen review – inside the social media sweatshops

Sarah T Roberts’s vital new study demonstrates how online content moderation is a global industry that operates on the back of human exploitation

Switch off the phone, turn on the radio and tune into Proust

In the age of the short attention-span, a radio adaptation of In Search of Lost Time is high-class therapy, says the Guardian and Observer writer Alex Clark

No Logo at 20: have we lost the battle against the total branding of our lives?

Twenty years on from the book that analysed the growing political power of ‘superbrands’

Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings ‘cannot use much of Tolkien’s plot’

Scholar working on the show says the author’s estate has refused permission to depict any of the events shown in Peter Jackson’s films

Fights, festivals, fear: Sohrab Hura’s angst-ridden India

With his photographs of out-of-control hedonism, punch-ups and blood-letting rituals, Hura captures a nation in the grip of an angry new nationalism

Sex, drugs, politics: how the streaming giants are blowing up Bollywood

New Amazon and Netflix dramas take in themes that India’s established cinema rarely touches, with millions of potential subscribers available

The Tiger Who Came to Tea coming to TV this Christmas

David Oyelowo to star in animated version of Judith Kerr children’s classic

Jane Austen’s Sanditon ‘sexed up’ in Andrew Davies adaptation

Screenwriter says he used all the material from Austen’s work in first half of first episode

Hurrah for ‘flyting’ – but we can do better than Piers Morgan and Alan Sugar

The ‘frenemies’ have taken to aiming insulting limericks at each other – but they can’t beat 15th-century poets William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy

Stand Out of Our Light: politics and the big tech threat

Books by James Williams and Carles Boix offer fascinating takes on how we can combat anger and distraction online