Terence Davies’ Emily Dickinson biopic to premiere at Berlin film festival

British director’s biopic of American poet, A Quiet Passion, starring Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon, will receive its world premiere in Berlin in February

Lost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingway

Rediscovered manuscript suggests director detested writer’s macho portrayal of Spanish culture

Chigozie Obioma: the ghosts of my student years in northern Cyprus

When the Booker nominee arrived at a European university, he found many fellow Nigerian students had been duped into enrolling. And for some, that was only the beginning of their troubles...

Guillermo del Toro to bring controversial horror stories for kids to the big screen

Film-maker may direct adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz after his Pacific Rim sequel

Agatha Sadler obituary

Other lives: Bookseller beloved by artists and art historians

David Aaronovitch: Me, Mum, Dad… and Stalin

Argument-loving columnist David Aaronovitch talks about his raw, revealing memoir of his obsessive communist parents

The Name of God Is Mercy review – mixed messages from the pope

Pope Francis appears to have given the Catholic church a more forgiving face – but at its core, little has changed, as this Q&A reveals

Comic-book festival bows to pressure over all-male award shortlist

Angoulême says it will add female nominees after Daniel Clowes, Joann Sfar and Riad Sattouf pull out in protest

Iran’s failed cultural diplomacy in Syria

Nadia von Maltzahn has researched decades-long efforts by Iran and Syria to improve their countries’ cultural relations. Gareth Smyth asks her what went wrong

Ishmael Beah hails South Sudan’s former child soldiers as future leaders

Despite a Unicef-led education initiative, opportunities beyond the army are limited for decommissioned child soldiers in South Sudan. But the author Ishmael Beah believes these young survivors are vital to the country’s future

Social media mocks DC Comics for note saying Pakistan language is ‘Pakistanian’

The US publisher’s latest annual features an editor’s note describing text ‘translated from Pakistanian’, setting social media alight with derision

A fish called Tim Winton: scientists name new species after novelist

The ‘very beautiful’ gold and silver coloured grunter is one of 20 newly-identified fish species from the remote Kimberley in Western Australia

A generation of failed politicians has trapped the west in a tawdry nightmare

A cosseted, arrogant elite has presided over a swift decay in the very liberal values it claims, with bombs and guns, to be defending

‘Mein Kampf shows where ideologies can lead’: the case for republishing Hitler

Today the copyright on Mein Kampf expires, meaning it can be published in Germany again. Some fear any reissue could boost neo-Nazism, while others welcome a new scholarly edition as an overdue chance to debunk it

Big Bang Theory producers sued over use of Soft Kitty nursery rhyme

Daughters of New Hampshire teacher who wrote the 1930s ditty say sitcom makers used lyrics without their permission