A farewell to arms? Hemingway biopic heralds new chapter for Cuba and US

Papa, about friendship between author and journalist, is first big Hollywood movie to be filmed on island in more than 50 years

Farley Mowat obituary

Fiery conservationist, writer and defender of Canada's wilderness

Hemingway biopic is first major Hollywood film shot in Cuba since 1959

The story of the US writer's friendship with a young journalist, starring Adrian Sparks and Giovanni Ribisi, receives exemption from America's six-decade embargo, writes Ben Child

New York Public Library abandons controversial renovation plans

Campaigners shocked and elated as plans to turn iconic Fifth Avenue research institution into a lending library are axed

TS Eliot’s Ash Wednesday – a call to spiritual awareness that falls short

Roz Kaveney: TS Eliot – part 6: As with Dante, this is a poem in which the visions of hell are stronger than the visions of heaven

The 100 best novels: No 33 – Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900)

Theodore Dreiser was no stylist, but there's a terrific momentum to his novel about a country girl's American dream, writes Robert McCrum

The Spy with 29 Names review – enthralling tale of a wartime double agent

A pacy account of the life of Juan Pujol, the Catalan spy who tricked Hitler over the D-day landings, is enjoyed by Ben East

Target: Italy review – Britain’s secret war against Mussolini

Roderick Bailey's pacy account of Britain's undercover role in fomenting anti-Fascist activity in wartime Italy grips Ian Thomson

Khaled Hosseini: ‘I have reconnected with Afghanistan in an intimate way’

The bestselling author of The Kite Runner talks to Kate Kellaway about storytelling, family and reconnecting with his country

How the BBC brought hope to occupied France

As the 70th anniversary of D-Day nears, a new book uncovers poignant cross-Channel letters

Signs of change in Tehran at ‘world’s biggest book fair’

Censorship persists but there are fewer prohibitions this year at event that draws 500,000 people daily from across Iran

Front: a play that views the hell of war from all sides

Director Luk Perceval talks to Hugh Rorrison about his latest theatre project, an unflinching 'polyphony in four languages' that examines the first world war from German, Flemish, British and French perspectives