Sydney writers’ festival 2016 lineup: Gloria Steinem, Jonathan Franzen, Kate Tempest
The 2016 festival celebrates Italian novelist Elena Ferrante, and will feature award-winning poet Tempest and A Little Life author Hanya Yanagihara
Can Pakistan win its war against the Taliban?
More than 70 people were killed and hundreds more injured on Easter Sunday after a suicide bomber massacred families in Lahore. As the army wages a war against religious extremists, author Mohammed Hanif asks how his country can recover from the slaughter
A Very Expensive Poison review – definitive account of Litvinenko murder
Guardian reporter Luke Harding uses a wealth of new material to retell this amazing and horrifying story
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 9 – Dispatches by Michael Herr (1977)
A compelling sense of urgency and a unique voice make Michael Herr’s Vietnam memoir the definitive account of war in our time
Trade policy is no longer just for political nerds: it matters in the UK and US
Rise of outsiders such as Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn reflects sense of being left behind by globalisation
Riad Sattouf: not French, not Syrian… I’m a cartoonist
The bestselling graphic novelist endured a traumatic childhood in Libya, Syria and France. Then he lost 12 of his colleagues in the Charlie Hebdo slaughter. Now he’s telling his life story frame by frame…
Australian wins global cosplay competition with necromancer outfit
Sam Mansfield, aka Major Sam, toiled away for four months on her costume, which features lit up cat skeletons and five layers of dyed silk organza
They seek Elena Ferrante here…
For 24 years now the bestselling writer of My Brilliant Friend and other acclaimed Neapolitan novels has evaded detection
Isis kills Syrian poet who opposed Assad government
Mohammad Bashir al-Aani and son had been captured after family funeral and held for several months accused of apostasy
Александр Литвиненко и cамое радиоактивное полотенце в мире
Фрагмент книги журналиста The Guardian Люка Хардинга об убийстве Александра Литвиненко
Who is Elena Ferrante? Novelist issues denial as guessing game goes on
Marcella Marmo is latest to deny being real author of acclaimed Neapolitan novels series
‘Ireland is becoming no place for the young… we need brave people willing to be bad citizens’
One hundred years on from the Easter Rising, amid economic crisis and deep uncertainty in Ireland, five young novelists offer a personal view of their homeland today
Céline: French literary genius or repellent antisemite? New film rekindles an old conflict
A movie drama about the innovative novelist has fuelled a thorny national debate about his legacy
The Guardian view on Seamus Heaney: Virgilian farewell
Editorial: The poet’s last work before his death in 2013 was a translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Book VI. And the Nobel prizewinner left us both an eloquent farewell – and a poem for our times
Ben Affleck: Robin is already dead in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
According to the star, the caped crusader is grieving the loss of his boy wonder sidekick, in Zack Snyder’s forthcoming superhero smackdown