Director Sarah Polley paired up with Little Women adaptation
Canadian film-maker to helm latest big-screen version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel about four sisters coming of age in 19th-century New England
Remains of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, ‘found in convent’
Archaeologists and anthropologists say they have positively identified fragments from the body of literary giant who died in 1616 in Madrid
Men with no name: the return of the existential hero
From Sean Penn’s The Gunman to Michael Mann’s Blackhat, the thinking man’s action hero is back, and attempting to put the art back in Sartre
Outrage in India: rape and misogyny exposed – new ebooks
Lyndee Prickitt’s devastating interactive story, We Are Angry, deserves to be far more widely read
The Lion Wakes: A Modern History of HSBC by David Kynaston and Richard Roberts review – exhaustive and exhausting
This account of the bank’s journey from relative obscurity in Hong Kong to global omnipresence could have dished more dirt on HSBC’s bosses
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson review – novelistic detail
Nicholson’s intimate and amusingly sharp exploration of the 50s reminds us how difficult a time this was for women
Sarah Chayes: on living in Afghanistan and sleeping with a Kalashnikov
The foreign policy expert and writer on Afghanistan life, western mistakes and sleeping with a Kalashnikov
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma review – four brothers and a terrible prophecy
This promising debut spins a simple, almost mythological conceit into a heartbreaking elegy to Nigeria’s lost promise, writes Helon Habila
Readers suggest the 10 best feminists
Last week, to mark International Women’s Day, we listed the 10 best feminists. From Pankhurst to Greer, here are those you felt should have made the cut
Reese Witherspoon to play US soldier killed in Afghanistan
After patriotic success of American Sniper, Hollywood tackles story of Ashley White, and a team of pioneering elite women soldiers deployed on the battlefield
We must reclaim the climate change debate from the political extremes
Alarmists and deniers need to climb out of their parallel trenches, engage with the developing world and work together to end the crisis
Did Mr Darcy make his fortune from slavery?
Novelist Joanna Trollope argues that one of literature’s greatest romantic heroes would have funded his estate with profits from the slave trade
Review: Blueprint for Revolution, a fantastically readable and useful handbook for activists
Want to start a revolution? All you need is Tolkien and Monty Python, according to the man behind the Serbian uprisings, finds Duncan Green
Meet Srdja Popovic, the secret architect of global revolution
The Serbian activist who formed the Otpor! movement in 1998 to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic has taken his philosophy of protest – laced with humour and rock’n’roll – worldwide. He explains how to mobilise people and change the world
One of Us review – compelling account of Norway’s lone-wolf killer
A study of Anders Breivik’s murderous rampage in 2011 has echoes of American Psycho