Leonardo DiCaprio looking to star in real life tale of Jim Crow south

Beth Macy’s Truevine tells the story of albino black boys displayed as circus freaks in racially segregated Virginia, and DiCaprio’s production company is negotiating rights to the book

Don DeLillo’s White Noise to be adapted for film

Michael Almereyda is set to adapt the 1985 story of professor of Hitler studies forced to confront his mortality when a toxic black cloud appears above his town

What a nation chooses to remember and forget: the war for New Zealand’s history

Those who tell Maori to stop living in the past rarely apply the same logic to first world war commemorations. Is New Zealand mature enough to own its history?

Angry young women return – wiser and happier in midlife

In the years since Cathi Hanauer’s bestselling anthology of life stories, the women she spoke to have new goals

As Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote stalls again, Disney plans rival movie

Screenwriter Billy Ray reportedly working on adaptation of classic novel about the delusional, romantic knight

Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize in literature

Singer-songwriter takes award for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’

‘No one in fashion really cares about a diverse world’ – R J Hernández

The author of the new Devil Wears Prada talks about diversity, the American Dream and identity politics

François Hollande: France has ‘a problem with Islam’

Book also quotes French president as saying too many people arrive illegally and that Nicolas Sarkozy is ‘the little De Gaulle’

Wonder Woman named UN girls’ empowerment ambassador

DC superhero punching for gender equality to be honoured at her 75th birthday party, attended by Ban Ki-moon and ‘surprise guests’

The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha – review

This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic’s political future

Elena Ferrante and the trouble with anonymity

The supposed exposure of the much-feted novelist’s true identity has caused a lot of outrage this week. From Jane Austen to Banksy, countless artists have tried to stay in the shadows, but it only makes people want to know more

The reviewer who tried to trump all Hitler comparisons

Mendacious, half-insane, an egomaniac, a demagogue – that’s what they said about the Nazi leader in the 1930s, before his election. Remind you of anyone?

Madaya Mom: Marvel comic reveals Syrian crisis TV cameras can’t reach

Comic illustrates a woman’s correspondence with ABC News about her family’s struggle to endure the war: ‘Our bodies are no longer used to eating’

I know how Elena Ferrante feels. My great-aunt was outed too

Henry Handel Richardson was one of the foremost Australian novelists of the early 20th century … and nobody knew she was a woman until somebody tipped off a newspaper

The Guardian view on unmasking Elena Ferrante: an impoverishing act

Editorial: In exchange for their lives, writers give us their books. We should respect how private they wish to be