Call Me Dave by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott; Cameron at 10 by Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon review – the great Tory deception
Two tomes on David Cameron’s first term are compelling enough but share one glaring omission
Nawal El Saadawi: ‘Do you feel you are liberated? I feel I am not’
As her books are reissued here, the formidable Nawal El Saadawi, 83, doctor, author, anti-FGM campaigner and voice of Egyptian feminism, is as combative as ever…
Clive James: ‘Still being alive is embarrassing’
The broadcaster, writing in the Guardian about life after his leukemia diagnosis, talks of surviving beyond expectations – and his love of the Great British Bake Off
Svetlana Alexievich deserves her place alongside Pinter and Gordimer
The Belarusian journalist’s nonfiction is overtly political. And its literary merit makes it every inch a worthy recipient of the Nobel prize
Gender-swap Twilight should expose the flaws in the original – I can’t wait
Stephenie Meyer’s Life and Death has a mopey teenage boy lusting over a sexy, strong, much older woman. That’s thrillingly subversive
Jilly Cooper’s first lesbian sex scene? I can’t wait
The bestselling author says she wants to write a lesbian romp, but is that really what her readers want? After all, lesbians don’t have sex in the same places straight women do, like around horses or money
Chantal Akerman: a director with a rare creative vision
The Belgian director’s rigour and brilliance survive a fascinating body of work
‘Black economic empowerment has failed’: Piketty on South African inequality
In Soweto to deliver the annual Nelson Mandela lecture, the rock star economist says the country is more unequal than under apartheid. Daily Maverick reports
Petition demands Maze Runner cast apologise for ‘thefts’ from Native American burial site
More than 28,000 people sign up after Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials star Dylan O’Brien suggests actors took artefacts from New Mexico location
The Jewish story, the Arab story … and a plan by Mr Davies
After a trip to Israel and the West Bank, teacher Michael Davies is planning to change the way students learn about the history of the conflict
The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft
Her argument – outrageous at the time – was that women were capable of reason, and deserved to have that recognised. Now it’s our turn to recognise her contribution to women’s rights
Hasbro reveals plans for four more Transformers movies
Future of the multibillion-dollar franchise will also include TV and digital development, says toymaker
Maths palace built by calculus ‘rock star’ on sale for £11.4m
James Stewart’s calculus text books made him very rich. He spent his fortune on Integral House, an award-winning architectural marvel inspired by calculus, which is now on sale after he died last year
Strangers Drowning review – notes from the far end of the moral spectrum
Larissa MacFarquhar’s facinating encounters with the relentless logic of extreme do-gooders pose important questions for all of us
The Invention of Russia by Arkady Ostrovsky; The New Tsar by Steven Lee Myers; The Red Web by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan – review
Three new studies of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power and his authoritarian methods of stifling free speech make gloomy reading