Yanis Varoufakis: ‘I would like to live in a world where we’re all privileged’
Greece’s former finance minister on talking politics with his 12-year-old daughter, Europe’s capitalist crisis, and his fears for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
The Guardian view on the IMF’s message: yes, tax the super-rich
Editorial: The Reagan-Thatcher revolution changed society’s beliefs about taxes for the worse. It’s a good thing the IMF agrees with Labour that we need a rethink if we want economic growth shared fairly
Trans teens are being killed while we debate nonexistent problems
Salman Rushdie’s uninformed views on gender reassignment surgery are a distraction from the real dangers, writes trans activist Zoe O’Connell
Robert Langdon in Catalonia: Dan Brown’s Origin picks bad day to launch
The Da Vinci Code author’s latest caper – partly set in Barcelona – is likely to struggle for attention as Spanish readers follow a rather more urgent story
Fifty shades of Xi: scores of books praising president published in China
Blitz on bookshelves comes ahead of next week’s political summit and includes tomes including Xi Jinping: Know More, Love More
Lost in La Mancha’s Jean Rochefort, veteran French actor, dies at 87
Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation
Ta-Nehisi Coates: the laureate of black lives
Coates’s eloquent polemics on the black experience in America brought him fame and the admiration of Barack Obama. Here he talks about the rise of white supremacy – and why Trump was a logical conclusion
The best books on North Korea: start your reading here
A literary tour of North Korea shines a light on the absurd realities and grim horrors of life in this cruel and capricious regime over the past 30 years
Boris Johnson was unwise to quote Kipling. But he wasn’t praising empire
The foreign secretary was caught being a klutz again, but Kipling’s poem wasn’t an argument for colonialism, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack
Johnny Depp says he would have ‘taken a bullet’ for Gerry Conlon
Hollywood star reveals close friendship with one of Guildford Four, who suggested he play him in film that became In the Name of the Father
The truth about capitalism is out as Marx’s magic cap starts to slip
Loose canon: A century after the rise of the Bolsheviks, the young are reading Karl Marx again – and faith in the superstitious beliefs that underpin market economies is faltering
Riding ‘the beast’: child migrants reveal full horror of their journeys to America
Author Valeria Luiselli began working as a volunteer interpreter at New York’s federal immigration court in 2015. She has since heard many disturbing accounts of unaccompanied children travelling through her home country, Mexico
British philosopher Onora O’Neill wins $1m Berggruen prize
Cambridge emeritus professor is praised for combining ‘rigour with timely prescriptions for what we really need to do’
‘Were you followed?’ Václav Havel’s secret plays staged in London homes
Updating the covert living-room theatre of protest in 1977 Czechoslovakia, an interactive trilogy shows how easily our own freedoms can be dismantled
Irish theatre on the rise: jail confessions and the fight for women’s rights
At the Dublin theatre festival, Shakespeare is reunited with his son, Sebastian Barry’s prisoners look back, Ibsen’s Nora lands in a dystopian future and Anu Productions deliver an urgent tale of torture