Rosalyn Baxandall obituary

Feminist historian and activist who helped to launch New York Radical Women

How the BBC’s journalists fought to cover the Northern Ireland conflict

Book highlights the insistent pressure on the corporation to censor its reporting

Soup for Syria: chefs are stirred into action over refugee crisis

A new cookbook contains soup recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi, Claudia Roden and Anthony Bourdain – and the full cover price goes to support refugees

Gloria Steinem: ‘If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament’

She’s been at the forefront of the feminist movement since the 60s. What’s changed? Gloria Steinem talks about Sheryl Sandberg, Hillary Clinton – and the new threats to women’s rights.

A new Irish literary boom: the post-crash stars of fiction

Dynamic, radical, often female … Irish fiction is flourishing. Gone is the conservative writing – all nostalgia and sexual repression – of the Celtic Tiger years. The writers of the new wave are original and bold

Why Marlon James had to get out of Jamaica to win the Booker prize

A Brief History of Seven Killings breaks some very strong taboos – and its writer says he feared becoming a victim of homophobic rage

James Cameron recruits Robert Rodriguez to direct manga adaptation Battle Angel Alita

Working on live-action version of 90s comic-book series has left Avatar director and Sin City film-maker ‘like two kids building a go-kart’, says Cameron

Thor 3 set to feature female superhero Valkyrie

Chris Hemsworth’s hammer-happy Marvel hero to team up with the figure from the original Avengers comics in forthcoming sequel

Marlon James’ Man Booker prize heralds a new Caribbean era

The award for A Brief History of Seven Killings is a sign that our writers need no longer choose between ‘satire’ and ‘the sacred’

Armenian devil reappears after being erased from centuries-old gospel

Creature removed from manuscript by pious reader can be seen again using hyperspectral imaging, and will go on show as part of Bodleian Library exhibition

Why the ‘Modi Toadies’ are after Salman Rushdie

The author is frequently attacked online for his criticisms of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi – in response, he has popularised a new nickname

Charlize Theron to take Brad Pitt part in The Gray Man

Actor to take rejigged role in thriller originally about a CIA operative-turned assassin, amid increase in use of gender-swapping to give women access to more interesting roles

Pan: big budget turkey heading for $150m nosedive

Joe Wright’s prequel to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan stories has so far failed to capture the imagination of audiences across the globe following derisive reviews