‘Love is always complicated’: Elizabeth Gilbert and the rise of later-in-life lesbians

Eat, Pray, Love author flooded with support after she announces relationship with her best friend – but she is far from alone in meeting a female partner after leaving a heterosexual marriage

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 32 – The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper (1947)

The historian’s vivid, terrifying account of the Führer’s demise, based on his postwar work for British intelligence, remains unsurpassed

Voices above the chaos: female war poets from the Middle East

The carnage in Turkey and Syria has led to a blossoming of poetry – with women at the forefront. Here, two of them tell their stories

Unseen treasures from the golden age of Disney revealed for first time

Sketches and scenes from classic animated movies, including The Jungle Book and Fantasia, unearthed in studio’s archives

Meet Generation M: the young, affluent Muslims changing the world

Burkinis, misery memoirs and people on camels: the caricatures of Islam don’t leave much room for modernity. The author of a new book argues that this image is absurd – and that a new demographic is about to flex its economic muscles

Tom Ford on Nocturnal Animals: ‘Believe it or not, I’m not just about style’

The fashion director turned auteur explained the thinking behind the most attention-grabbing sequences in his new film, at its gala screening in Venice

If technology makes humans into gods, old questions return

Loose canon: Yuval Noah Harari’s new book Homo Deus imagines a world in which life is painless, purposeless and long

Alicia Vikander on pregnancy: ‘Half the women in the audience will be thinking: she doesn’t know what it’s like’

The Oscar-winner spoke at the premiere of The Light Between Oceans about co-star Michael Fassbender, and the challenges of playing a pregnant woman and having a family

Air Force One: the ultimate power trip

The president’s aircraft is a symbol of US strength. Peter Conrad examines its history and depictions in film, and what it really tells us about America

‘I’ve done really bad things’: The undercover cop who abandoned the war on drugs

Neil Woods used to risk his life to catch drug dealers. But as gangs responded with escalating violence and intimidation – some even poisoning users who talked to the police – he started to see legalisation as the only solution

Mills & Boon: zero shades of feminism

Val Derbyshire is right to nail the snobbery directed at romance literature. But the truth is, a genre that revels in forced seduction does nothing to empower women

Nicolas Sarkozy is back! And he’s more rightwing than ever

The former French president “Sarko” is returning to politics and in a new book he sets out his vision for France: a big non to multiculturalism

A ‘radical alternative’: how one man changed the perception of Los Angeles

In the 1960s, British architectural critic Reyner Banham declared his love for the city that his fellow intellectuals hated. What Banham wrote about Los Angeles redefined how the world perceived it – but what would he think of LA today?

The Euro and Its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz – review

The economist exposes the flaws of the common currency, but his solutions for reform don’t convince

Musical version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to open in Moscow

Apart from some cuts – and the inline skating – producers say musical adaptation remains faithful to classic novel