Steven Spielberg to tackle The BFG movie

Roald Dahl story previously filmed in 1989 to become Spielberg's latest directorial project, for release in 2016

Russia cracks down on swearing in public performances

Parliament's lower house passes law implementing ban and fines for foul language in theatres, music gigs and cinemas

Surprise as Nigerian censors halt premiere of civil war film

Half of a Yellow Sun starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, based on a novel, depicts 1967–1970 tribal conflict

Eight classic young adult novels that deserve the Hollywood treatment

YA franchises are a big deal at the box office, but there are plenty of teen classics left for Hollywood to plunder

Search for Cervantes’ lost remains: team to begin sweep of Madrid convent

Ground-penetrating radar equipment to be used in hope of finding remains of Spanish author of Don Quixote

Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner review – the last days of the Americans

Rachel Kushner's first novel is an epic and enjoyable look at wealth tainted by loss in expatriate Cuba. By Anne Enright

Glenn Greenwald book to contain ‘new stories from the Snowden archive’

Journalist who broke Guardian story about NSA surveillance says new documents 'will help inform the debate even further'

Frédéric Gros: why going for a walk is the best way to free your mind

Some of the finest thinkers in history were also enthusiastic walkers. Philosopher Frédéric Gros tells Carole Cadwalladr why we should fall in step with Nietzsche and Kant

James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in Of Mice and Men on Broadway – reviews

John Steinbeck's classic is revived on Broadway with an all-star cast, but the critics can't agree if its leads bring huge chemistry or are simply reading from CliffsNotes

Mythical beasts and voodoo worship: photographing pagan rituals in China

Sean O'Hagan: Using a cheap Holga film camera, Zhang Xiao captures the otherworldliness of a new-year festival that has survived China's surge towards modernity in Shanxi, a haunting new photobook

Michael Lewis: ‘Wall Street has gone insane’

Flash Boys, an exposé of 'rigged' high-frequency trading, has sold 130,000 copies in its first week and is already being turned into a film. Its author, Michael Lewis, tells Emma Brockes why the story is so compelling

Sheryl Sandberg ‘does more than her fair share of childcare’

Husband of Facebook COO and author of Lean In reveals household chores are distributed between them 'more like 60/40'

The best books on Somalia: start your reading here

Pushpinder Khaneka: our literary tour of Somalia examines lives blighted by civil war, and unearths reasons for optimism in the 'world's most failed state'

Why Apple’s censorship was just a storm in a D-cup

A skirmish between Apple and a French publisher over a risque book cover hardly recalls the censorship battles of the past, writes Anna Baddeley

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting review – ‘musicality and a following wind’

Former US soldier and award-winning novelist Kevin Powers turns out to be a considerable poet too, writes Kate Kellaway