Pearl of a museum: Vermeer shines among Dutch icons in new Mauritshuis

A dramatic yet tasteful refurbishment allows The Hague's fine collection of golden age Dutch art to seduce and intrigue, writes Jonathan Jones

Jeanette Winterson and the rabbit of truth

Tanya Gold: By giving Beatrix Potter's beast the Tarantino treatment, Winterson cuts through the sentimentality of her critics

The author has lost fans for killing and eating a bunny she found in her garden

Former publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, whose writing on culture and technology spanned the ideological divide

Settlement avoids trial judgment over conspiracy with publishers to raise the price of ebooks in the US. By Samuel Gibbs

Editorial: A 94-year-old philosopher who won't stand for any nonsense

Peter Preston enjoys Ed Conway's lively account of the 'rancid stew' of the crucial 1944 Bretton Woods summit and its consequences

Justin Marozzi's vivid history of Baghdad puts the city's recent troubles into revealing perspective, writes Anthony Sattin

Sixty drawings and prints from late artist's unfulfilled quest to illustrate James Joyce's epic on display in time for Bloomsday

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, who has won the £5,000 award, says victory shows that the country is not a 'literary desert'

Andrew Brown: Like Primo Levi, Otto Dov Kulka has the unusual ability to communicate what it meant to be a Nazi death camp inmate

Pushpinder Khaneka: our literary tour of Afghanistan takes in tales of war, kite-flying, the Taliban and patience stones

Kathryn Hughes: Moralists sneer at people who choose McDonald's or KFC. But not all of us have time to cook a Jamie Oliver recipe

In pared-down, poetic prose, Mukherjee traces the fractures in Kolkata society and its drought-ravaged earth, writes Anita Sethi