Four Hong Kong publishers known for books critical of Chinese regime missing
Rights groups raise alarm for Gui Minhai, last seen travelling to Thailand, Lu Bo and Zhang Zhiping, who headed to China, and missing Lin Rongji
The Tokyo hotel where guests can curl up with 1,700 good books
Book and Bed is a Japanese hotel that’s taking a very novel approach to hospitality
George Bush Sr book reveals a more dangerous Dick Cheney than anyone knew
Destiny and Power shows a VP with more authority than almost all his predecessors, making plain Bush Jr’s administration could have been even worse
Arundhati Roy returns award in protest against religious intolerance in India
Novelist joins Bollywood figures and others in handing back awards, with many criticising Modi government for not condemning violence
‘Iron-ass’ Cheney and ‘arrogant’ Rumsfeld damaged America, says George Bush Sr
Former president claims hawkish reaction to 9/11 attacks and desire to ‘get our way in the Middle East’ hurt his son’s administration, says new biography
Trump’s new book Crippled America – the live read as it happened
Adam Gabbatt is reading the Republican presidential candidate’s new book so you don’t have to
Hunger Games ride brings District 12 to Dubai theme park
Visitors will be able to wander around recreation of Katniss Everdeen’s neighbourhood, complete with downtrodden inhabitants and rundown buildings – with more tie-ins planned for China and the US
Shirley Conran: ‘Maths is a feminist issue’
The author of Superwoman and Lace has produced a course aimed at convincing girls that even Beyoncé must know how to check her investment portfolio
Mein Kampf: strange tales of the world’s most dangerous book
A stage version of Hitler’s rambling manifesto is attracting big audiences, months before its copyright expires and a new academic edition is published
Ubud writers’ festival debates massacre ‘that we’re not supposed to talk about’
The 50th anniversary of Indonesia’s 1965 anti-communist purges which killed 500,000 gets public airing despite authorities’ moves to enforce silence
We’ll lose something vital if we stop debate on campus and beyond
It is vital that we remain exactly what we are: a tolerant society that makes no demand on us but to obey the rule of law
‘I did it! Now bring me schnapps!’ How Rabin’s assassin greeted news that Israel’s champion of peace was dead
Twenty years ago, Yigal Amir, a 25-year-old Jewish extremist, assassinated the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin. In this excerpt from his book Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, Dan Ephron describes the moments that followed
Of course I believe in ghosts – my sanity depends on it
Loose canon: A century on, Freud’s melancholia remains the psychological condition of the lost soul. Which is why psychoanalysis has become the modern form of exorcism
To Hell and Back review: Ian Kershaw’s expert view of the 20th-century apocalypse
Kershaw’s masterly single-volume survey of the 1914 to 1949 period deserves classic status