Why ‘Bushman banter’ was crucial to hunter-gatherers’ evolutionary success

The Ju/’hoansi people of the Kalahari have always been fiercely egalitarian. They hate inequality or showing off, and shun formal leadership institutions. It’s what made them part of the most successful, sustainable civilisation in human history

Mississippi students allowed to read To Kill a Mockingbird – with a parent’s note

Biloxi officials had pulled novel from reading list because some parents complained book’s language ‘makes people uncomfortable’

Yes, we must decolonise: our teaching has to go beyond elite white men

There’s no need for outrage over changes to our English curriculum, writes Cambridge academic Priyamvada Gopal

Kampot literary festival hopes to revive Cambodia’s lost art of storytelling

Atmospheric Kampot is hosting the likes of Jung Chang and Madeleine Thien as it seeks to rebuild Cambodia’s literary scene and defend its freedom of speech

Moomins and more: UK show to exhibit Tove Jansson’s broader work

Britain’s first major retrospective of Finnish artist, at Dulwich Picture Gallery, aims to enhance her reputation as serious artist

Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli – review

These devastating essays document the terrifying experiences of unaccompanied children crossing from Mexico into the US

Khizr Khan: the patriotic American Muslim who called out Donald Trump

The father of the US soldier Humayun Khan talks about losing his son to the Iraq war and why it drove him to challenge the future president on live TVPlus: An extract from Khizr Khan’s new book, An American Family

The boarding of U-559 changed the war – now both sides tell their story

In an updated extract from the bestselling Enigma history, we revisit the daring engagement in which two men gave their lives to make a breakthrough possible

Carol Drinkwater reveals sex attack by Hollywood director Elia Kazan

Rejecting the advances of a famous director cost the actor turned author the part of a lifetime. She explains why, 40 years on, she poured her shame and guilt into her latest novel, The Lost Girl

Hokkaido releases manga comic to combat North Korean threat

Weeks after missiles overflew Japanese island, officials produce comic advising residents what to do in event of test launch

Mystery over Christ’s orb in $100m Leonardo da Vinci painting

Crystal sphere in Salvator Mundi artwork lacks optical exactitude, causing experts to speculate over motive and authenticity

Rose McGowan’s tweet suggests a poetic justice for Weinstein’s poison

By tweeting Blake’s poem, A Poison Tree, without comment, after her Weinstein allegations, McGowan has helped illuminate its complex meanings, writes Guardian columnist Peter Bradshaw

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison review – the language of race and racism

The author of Beloved reads that novel alongside the real-life story that inspired it, in one of a resonant set of lectures on literature and the fetishisation of skin colour

New Zealand library cracks case of the missing books

Staff discover homeless people had been carefully hiding books under shelves at Auckland library so they could return to them without losing their place

How do you win the Man Booker prize? Move to New York or London

The prize used to champion outsiders. But a 2014 rule change has resulted in the neo-colonial dominance of the US and the UK says freelance writer Lucy Diver