Roberto Saviano: my critics want to caricature me as the Rushdie of Rome
The author of Gomorrah and Zero Zero Zero hits back at charges of plagiarism
TV drama depicting Russian invasion premieres in Norway
Norwegian thriller, Occupied, has been condemned by Moscow and is likely to tap into fears in Scandinavian countries of Russian aggression
Space for a spud: The Martian offers to post filmgoers a free potato
Ridley Scott space thriller starring Matt Damon as an astronaut left behind on the red planet makes tempting offer to fans of starchy food products
Ridley Scott: Ryan Gosling will ‘probably’ lead Blade Runner sequel
With Harrison Ford confirmed to return as Deckard, Scott has hinted that Gosling will take the role of the follow-up’s central character
How the banks ignored the lessons of the crash
The long read: Joris Luyendijk spent two years talking to hundreds of City insiders. They revealed how close we came to disaster – and how quickly finance went back to business as usual
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan review – a frustrating trail
An ambitious Persian-centric rewrite of world history is full of insight but let down by factual errors
Joan Collins ‘nagged sister about mammograms’, tribute reveals
Actor says she only found out about her sister’s illness two weeks before she died
Donald Trump v Joan Didion? Now I’d watch that
You do wonder how America’s coolest political journalist would deal with the Republican frontrunner – and whether she’d dismantle today’s hacks in the same way as she did in the 1988 presidential race
Like Jackie Collins, I kept my cancer diagnosis a secret – and I don’t regret it
Keeping her illness from her sister Joan must have been one of the hardest decisions Jackie Collins had ever had to make – I did the same to protect my parents
China enters Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Wolf Totem into Oscars 2016 race
Following its 2015 choice, Philippe Muyl’s The Nightingale, China has once again entered a film by a French director for best foreign language film
Maze Runner sequel sets scorching pace internationally as Everest fails to reach summit
In this week’s roundup of the global box-office scene, Maze Runner’s non-US figures show reliance on international audience and the action-drama Everest starts its box-office ascent solidly
Jackie Collins, novelist of Hollywood glamour and sex, dies aged 77
British-born author of Hollywood Wives and The Stud dies in Los Angeles of breast cancer which she had kept secret for more than six years
How Ta-Nehisi Coates’s letter to his son about being black in America became a bestseller
Between the World and Me is a vital analysis of America’s race problem. Here Coates explains how James Baldwin and his own father inspired his powerful message
Stalin’s Englishman review: the louche master of the spying game
Guy Burgess is recast as the key player in the Cambridge spy ring in a meticulous biography
The IRS phone dirge puts my life on hold
The psychology of hold music has come a long way since the 80s – as I found out when lost in the tax service’s musical fog