Papa: film about Hemingway’s Havana years raises hope for Hollywood in Cuba

Biopic about American author’s life in Cuba makes history as first US production filmed on the island since 1960 trade embargo

Guadalajara book fair builds a bridge between Mexico and the UK

The giant event put a large contingent of Britain’s finest on display, and should provide an invitation for English-language readers to explore an unfamiliar new world of reading

What would your youthful library record say about you?

After the revelation that Haruki Murakami checked out Belle de Jour as a teenager, our writers tell tales of Biggles, pointless furtiveness and pretentious novels they never read

Black authors don’t write only for white women

Yes, book publishers do have a problem with black authors – it’s just not how the Man Booker prizewinner Marlon James describes it

Whip his shadow cabinet? There’s nothing Corbyn would like more

War in Syria is becoming overshadowed by the conflict within the Labour party, but it’s amazing what a little re-education can do

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions review – an in-depth study of faith’s foundations

Robin Lane Fox’s biography of the 4th-century saint deserves to become the standard work on his religious teaching

World artists call on climate negotiators to reach ‘ambitious’ deal in Paris

More than 300 musicians, actors and writers including David Bowie and Emma Thompson have signed an open letter ahead of next week’s climate talks

Tokyo Story’s Setsuko Hara dies at 95

Muse of Yasujuro Ozu who rose to fame in the 1930s and 40s was a key face of Japan’s postwar cinematic revival

The lost cries of London: reclaiming the street trader’s devalued tradition

From medieval times, the plethora of stallholders’ cries in London was recognised by travellers throughout Europe as indicative of the infinite variety of life in the capital. So what’s become of this grand urban theatre?

Moscow finally approves monument to celebrate author Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita author, whose classic novel centred on a character interpreted to be the devil, has long been surrounded by superstition

Marvel’s Stan Lee: ‘I’d never really thought of doing comics for a living’

The legendary comic creator on coming up with characters, his new Sky 1 series and how luck is an unexplored superpower

Lauretta Ngcobo obituary

South African writer and activist whose work explored apartheid and the struggle of black women

Burt Reynolds: I regret turning down Bond

Star of the Smokey and the Bandit films, Boogie Nights and Deliverance says he believed in 1970 that only an Englishman should play 007

Studio apartment: Room’s tiny, innovative film set goes on display

Claustrophobic self-contained set of the Oscars contender, about a kidnapped mother and child raised in confinement, has been reassembled in an LA cinema

Mexican mugshots: criminal cult heroes of the 60s

A haul of police photographs found in a flea market reveals dramatic shots of the thieves, bank robbers and nannies-turned-crooks that once made up the country’s lawless subculture