US cinemas to show Nineteen Eighty-Four in anti-Trump protest
Coordinated screenings across North America set for 4 April to highlight Orwell’s portrait of a government ‘that manufactures facts’
Milo Yiannopoulos’s enablers deserve contempt – and must be confronted
The poster boy of the alt-right has lost his book deal after speaking in defence of suggested sexual relationships between older men and younger boys, but his lucrative bigotry was left unchecked for far too long
Cologne library opens its doors to refugees: ‘You fill this room with life’
The Cologne Public Library is serving as a social and educational space for the city’s refugees, as counterparts across Germany increasingly become places for community engagement. Could the UK learn from this?
John Irving attacks ‘intolerant’ Trump in defence of political awards speeches
Writer of The Cider House Rules laments new president’s threat to LGBT and abortion rights, and says winners at next weekend’s Oscars should be free to protest
Dick Bruna obituary
Creator of Miffy, the little rabbit who became a star of children’s literature
Miffy creator Dick Bruna has died aged 89
The Dutch artist and illustrator, whose much-loved stories about a cartoon rabbit sold more than 80m books, has died aged 89
Susi Dunsmore obituary
Other lives: Expert on textile traditions in the Himalayas who forged new links between Nepal and Britain
Retrieving an untold story: voices of Spanish female artists finally heard
Madrid commemorates a lost generation of female writers, artists, scientists and thinkers silenced by Franco
Trayvon Martin’s parents, five years on: ‘Racism is alive and well in America’
Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s 17-year-old son was killed by a neighbourhood watchman who was acquitted of his murder. They talk about becoming activists – and how they lost ‘hope and faith’ in justice
Pokot (Spoor) review – Miss Marple meets Angela Carter in the trackless Polish forest
Agnieszka Holland’s new film is a mix of forensic crime story and magical realist fairy tale that, adapted from Olga Tokarczuk’s novel, doesn’t always hang together
Elif Shafak: ‘When women are divided it is the male status quo that benefits’
The Turkish novelist on reclaiming faith from religion, her love for Istanbul, and the creative benefits of self-imposed exile
‘With every inch, the challenge multiplies’: me and my afro
It’s been short, long, straight and punky – reflecting the twists and turns of my life and my homeland, Cameroon
New Zealand’s surprising history of art crime: ‘I continue to be flabbergasted’
Global art crime is big business, and New Zealand is not exempt. It has its fair share of mystery disappearances, audacious forgers and stolen European art
Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt
The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and ‘the banality of evil’ in the 60s has become a surprise bestseller. Should we heed her warning that protesting just feeds the chaos?
Best new paperbacks: Margo Jefferson, Julian Barnes, Decca Aitkenhead
The first paperbacks of the new year offer rich pickings, from Barnes’s meditation on Shostakovitch to Jefferson’s memoir of growing up in the US’s black elite