Robert Silvers interview: ‘Someone told me Martin Scorsese might be interested in making a film about us. And he was’

Robert Silvers has been editor of the New York Review of Books since 1963. He tells Rachel Cooke how his magazine came to be the subject of a new Scorsese documentary

#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso – review

This bestseller is both the life story of a fashion entrepreneur and a guide to female empowerment. The trouble is it's as shallow as a teaspoon. By Helen Lewis

A critical theoretic Marxist dialectical analysis of the World Cup song

Stuart Jeffries: Is Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez's World Cup anthem, We Are One (Ole Ola) throwaway pop or a critique of the global sports myth? Clearly the latter …

Hopes of justice amid the atrocities of Auschwitz

Andrew Brown: Otto Dov Kulka's book tells a disturbing story of people about to be killed putting hopes of revenge and justice in Stalin's tyranny

Maya Angelou appreciation – ‘The ache for home lives in all of us’

Maya Angelou said she had thousands of daughters. I wonder if she ever knew really how many, writes Afua Hirsch

The best books on North Korea

From first hand accounts of gulag survivors to memoirs of defectors once part of the top echelons of government, here’s our pick of the best books on the secretive kingdom

In praise of … Maya Angelou

Editorial: Holding up a mirror to America

Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton launches campaign to revive TV series

The beloved children's television series, which ran from 1983-2006, may be coming back, with over $50,000 already raised of $1m target

Maya Angelou obituary

Writer, poet and civil rights campaigner lauded for her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Rachel Louise Carson commemorated in Google doodle

Work of eminent scientist and author of Silent Spring showed the world how DDT was devastating nature

Roman Polanski writes foreword to book about murdered wife, Sharon Tate

Jane Fonda and Joan Collins also contribute to volume about actor, who was killed by followers of Charles Manson in 1969

Dear Leader review – a telling account of the madness of North Korea

Jonathan Fenby: A poet allowed into North Korea's inner circle has a riveting, bizarre tale to tell

Star Wars original cast looked ‘a little melted’ for Episode VII – Carrie Fisher

Princess Leia actor describes to Hay festival her reunion with Harrison Ford and others to work on first of new Star Wars films

The Trigger review – reassessing Gavrilo Princip, ‘a surprisingly sympathetic figure’

Why did Gavrilo Princip assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914? This lively account tells his story, writes Iain Morris

Thomas Piketty’s economic data ‘came out of thin air’

French economist's bestselling book on growing equality in the west undermined by 'inexplicable' data, says Financial Times