How to Survive a Plague by David France – review

An eyewitness of the remarkable 1980s campaign to help Aids sufferers reports straight from the heart of the action

Elie Wiesel remembered by Menachem Rosensaft

The law professor and Nobel peace prize winner’s friend recalls a man of immense kindness and curiosity who never let the Holocaust define him

First edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia set to fetch $1m at auction

Rare European copy of key mathematics text is going under hammer at Christie’s in New York with record guide price

Publisher apologises for ‘sexist’ wording on cover of Elena Garro book

Ad on front of new edition of work by the late Mexican novelist criticised for focusing on her relationships with male writers

Members’ views: ‘Trevor Noah’s take was really thought-provoking’

Guardian Members Isy Mead and Corey Sutch discuss the comedian’s extraordinary account of growing up in apartheid-era South Africa

The Mothers by Brit Bennett review – a bold new voice in American fiction

This tale of absent mothers and the daughters they left behind is an impressive debut

Stranger things: Albert Camus’ enigmatic outsider hits Berlin

The Schaubühne is staging the absurdist classic with three actors sharing the main role. Director Philipp Preuss reflects on what ‘otherness’ means in society

First trailer released for Martin Scorsese’s Oscar contender Silence

Scorsese’s study of Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan stars Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver alongside Liam Neeson

‘It’s like they were selling heroin to schoolkids’: censorship hits booksellers at Kuwait book fair

Many Arab book fairs have been a free space for publishers to sell titles banned in shops, but Kuwait has seen raised levels of censorship – turning the book trade into a risky business

Tom Hiddleston and Ben Wheatley to reunite for Frank Miller adaptation

High-Rise actor and director to collaborate on big-screen version of Miller and Geof Darrow’s comic Hard Boiled

Austerlitz review – a thoughtful look at Holocaust tourism

Sergei Loznitsa sets up his cameras at the sites of the Nazi death camps, to watch the behaviour of the visitors and ask how best to remember history

Diversity can distract us from economic inequality

Loose canon: Donald Trump got elected because the liberal elite didn’t care enough about the gap between rich and poor

Could there really be only one new black male novelist in Britain?

There’s plenty of talent among minority ethnic writers in the UK, but their books rarely make it to the shelves – and that’s shameful

Poets’ unlikely love letters are turned into critically acclaimed film

Die Geträumten consists of readings from the letters of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan – daughter of a Nazi and son of Jews

Literal interpretation of Bible ‘helps increase church attendance’

Study finds conservative theology mixed with innovative worship approach helps Protestant churches grow congregations