How Netflix can spawn a Marvel-style Millarworld superhero universe
Acquisition of Scottish comic book business can transform into a multibillion-dollar film franchise
Netflix buys comic book company behind Kick-Ass and Kingsman
Streaming giant aims to copy Marvel owner Disney’s superhero strategy with Millarworld, its first ever acquisition
The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness review – a tale of betrayal by the church
Graham Caveney’s defiant, important memoir details how the Catholic establishment fails abuse victims
One old minibus and 1,300 books: the mobile library for refugees in Greece
A pair of volunteers set about providing to provide a quiet space to read and study, amid the upheaval and uncertainty that faces those who have fled their homes
Pearson to axe 3,000 jobs after slump at main US business
Cost-cutting move aims to save educational publisher about £300m a year with 10% cut in global staff after biggest loss in history in 2016
Peter Skrine obituary
Other lives: Professor of German who taught with humour and erudition
The cult of Babel: Odessa’s literary flashmobs attract book-loving tourists
The Black Sea city may lack the pedigree of St Petersburg but it was home to Isaac Babel, and has a storied past as a stopping point for globe-trotting intellectuals
Hunger by Roxane Gay review – one body’s lessons for everybody
This moving memoir of suffering and survival subtly questions not just how we judge ‘fat’, but how we dare to judge at all
Iranian artist to attend Edinburgh book festival after visa volte-face
Children’s book illustrator Ehsan Abdollahi was denied entry to UK but decision has been overturned by UK embassy in Tehran
Der Spiegel removes ‘antisemitic’ book from bestseller list
Finis Germania by Rolf Peter Sieferle has been withdrawn from influential list over ‘right-wing extremist’ content
Charlie Gard’s parents show the strength of human love
Loose canon: When it comes to morality, the passion of love must carry greater weight than the calculations of reason
The best books on Ghana: start your summer reading here
A literary tour of Ghana takes in the early disappointments of independence, a woman’s search for personal freedom, and the gradual evolution of democracy
Acclaimed Iranian artist refused visa to attend Edinburgh book festival
Children’s book illustrator Ehsan Abdollahi says Kafkaesque reasons given for refusal
Joanna Lumley’s India: is her TV show guilty of airbrushing history?
Joanna Lumley returned to the land of her birth to celebrate India and walk in her ‘family’s footsteps’. But does her series overlook British oppression in the former colony – and her own ancestors’ role?
What is your favourite Guardian article of 2017 so far?
We want to hear what you would like Gary Younge to include in this year’s Bedside Guardian, an end-of-year compendium of the best we’ve published