Indian publishers wake up to new generation of homegrown thrillers

Readers increasingly swapping Agatha Christie and Dan Brown for compatriots with a focus on fast plots and happy endings

Salman Rushdie: hate-filled rhetoric of ‘jihadi cool’ is persuading British Muslims to join Isis

Alison Flood: The writer argues that those who have ‘horribly mangled’ the language of religion are targeting modernity

Iggy Pop and Dario Argento seek crowdfunding for Sandman horror film

Donors who contribute towards $250,000 target on Indiegogo, for ETA Hoffmann’s The Sandman, will get perks including possible roles opposite Iggy

Salman Rushdie to share PEN Pinter prize with Mazen Darwish

The author publicises plight of imprisoned Syrian activist by sharing the PEN Pinter award for international writer of courage

Anna Morpurgo Davies obituary

Historical linguist who unlocked the secrets of Ancient Greek and Anatolian

Chinese media accuse Japanese manga star Doraemon of subverting youth

Robotic cat, which is the subject of an exhibition touring China, is portrayed as Japanese propaganda tool by some newspapers

Celebrity autobiographies: you couldn’t make it up

Peter Bradshaw: Notebook: If this is a pile of memoirs from Roy Keane, John Cleese and more, it must be super Thursday – the publishing industry’s equivalent of Christmas

Helmut Kohl chides Angela Merkel and Mikhail Gorbachev in new book

Former German chancellor in less than charitable mood in interview transcripts to be published without his permission

Karl Lagerfeld’s flimflam feminism won’t hurt the real thing

Hadley Freeman: If such tokenistic feminism is fashionable now then it follows it will be unfashionable later – which is just fine with me

The Tom and Jerry racism warning is a reminder about diversity in modern storytelling

Anne Perkins: First thoughts: If current stories reflected all cultures more accurately, we’d be better placed to recognise the dated attitudes in older TV and literature

Anthony Horowitz is writing new James Bond novel from Ian Fleming idea

Alison Flood: Murder on Wheels, the first novel to be adapted from an original Ian Fleming treatment since his death, may see Bond foil Russian plans to scupper a Formula One race in the 50s

Crime and Punishment to be made into musical for Moscow stage

Russian film director Andrei Konchalovsky is involved in project to adapt Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment next year

Camera shy: the religious community that shuns the limelight

Bolivia’s Mennonites have forsaken the modern world, but Jordi Ruiz Cirera’s new book of striking portraits captures the beauty of their austere lives, writes Sean O’Hagan

A brief survey of the short story: Barry Hannah

Chris Power: A writer who captured the violence, bigotry and wild humour of the American deep south in line after unpredictable line

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing five-star review – a courageously feminist production

Eimear McBride’s award-winning novel transitions perfectly to the stage in Corn Exchange’s startling and upsetting Dublin theatre festival show about the impact of sexual abuse, writes Helen Meany