Michael Asser obituary
Other lives: Librarian and arts administrator who translated Greek biblical texts into English
Hilary Mantel knew how corrosive deference to monarchy can be – and why we must resist
Let us mark this year of royal death and accession by challenging the notion that a man with a crown is more important than everyone else, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
‘Restoring the river’: why Kenyans are returning to precolonial spirituality
From TikTok videos to traditional songs and stories, Kikuyu cultural beliefs and practices suppressed under 19th-century colonialism are seeing a revival
The Lindisfarne Gospels review – was Eadfrith the monk Britain’s first great artist?
This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson Pollock
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by AN Wilson review – a poignant memoir
The controversialist is in a reflective mood as he examines his parents’ troubled relationship and the failures of his first marriage
Winters in the World by Eleanor Parker review – a dive into the Anglo-Saxon year
An magical exploration of the weather literature left behind by the poets, scientists and historians of Anglo-Saxon Britain
UK sales of The Satanic Verses surge after Rushdie stabbing
Publisher Vintage has ordered a reprint following rush to buy the 1988 novel in the wake of the attack on the author earlier this month
The Guardian view on Salman Rushdie: democracy relies on the right to dissent
Editorial: No piece of writing deserves a death sentence or should be met with the threat of assault
Do you want free speech to thrive? Then it has to be regulated, now more than ever
The online safety bill in the UK is shaping up to be a censor’s nightmare, but we need to take this debate seriously, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
What it was like asking for Salman Rushdie’s work in a Pakistan bookshop
As an aspiring writer I loved many exiled authors, from Márquez to Kundera, but with Rushdie the stakes were raised
Salman Rushdie teaches us an invaluable lesson
It is courageous and necessary to stand up against tyrants – even when those tyrants claim to have God on their side
Rushdie stabbing was ‘an attack on who we are’, says venue’s president
Head of Chautauqua Institution, which seeks to built interfaith connections, profoundly shaken by Friday’s violence
Who is Salman Rushdie? Author whose book The Satanic Verses made him a target
The Indian-born writer has been stabbed in New York, and it’s not his first brush with violence
A tsunami of outrage: Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses
The writer had no idea his novel would unleash such anger and become a litmus test of freedom of expression
Has history got it wrong about Oliver Cromwell’s persecution of Catholics?
Hundreds of lost documents have been unearthed revealing the Puritan leader’s radical views on religious freedom