Anne Valery obituary
Co-writer of the TV series Tenko who dramatised the lives of women overlooked in most accounts of the second world war
Incredible Hulk statue to transform image of US library
Northlake public library turns to crowdfunding website to raise $30,000 for nine-foot tall Hulk replica
State propaganda exhibition puts Morph and Hitler under scrutiny
More than 200 posters, films, interviews and other ephemera part of look at gentle – and not so gentle – methods of persuasion
Bid to censor Anne Frank’s ‘pornographic’ diary in schools fails
Michigan school committee rejects mother's plea to remove edition of Diary of a Young Girl from students' eyes
Orwell prize goes to ‘chilling’ study of Baha Mousa’s death
A Very British Killing by AT Williams acclaimed by judges as an 'incendiary, eloquent and angry' investigation
Cannes 2013: Judge The Great Gatsby on box office, says Baz Luhrmann
Brash and exuberant, the opening movie of the 66th festival has divided critics, but its director is upbeat about audience response
A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order
Phil Hoad: Film has moved on from the non-linear jigsaws once used to depict our globalised state. Mira Nair's thriller dynamic and the subtlety found in Danish counterpart A Hijacking point the direction things are going
From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy
Jonathan Jones: While Botticelli painted a mean Paradiso, Gustave Doré's dark drawings have been used to publicise Dan Brown's latest novel. We look at the art inspired by Dante's timeless text
Bret Easton Ellis attacks ‘gatekeepers of politically correct gayness’
Ellis rails against activist group Glaad for imposing a sanitized version of homosexuality upon complicated lives of individuals
Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror by Victoria Brittain – review
Victoria Brittain's account of the experiences suffered by the wives of terror suspects is a vital document, writes Yvonne Roberts
Gemma Arterton: ‘Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times’
The actress talks to Tim Lewis about going clubbing with her mum, her new role in a 'neo-feminist vampire movie' and why she has no regrets about playing Bond girl Strawberry Fields
Dan Brown’s Inferno: Florence hopes for a tourism miracle
Dan Brown's follow-up to The Da Vinci Code finds hidden messages in the work of Dante, providing rich pickings for eager modern conspiracy theorists
William Sutcliffe: the power of the West Bank wall
A visit to the West Bank with the Palestine festival of literature made William Sutcliffe rebuild his novel The Wall
The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson – review
This startling debut about Georgia under Soviet rule beguiles Kapka Kassabova