Richard Hart obituary
Other lives: Key figure in the West Indian trade union movement and nationalist politics, who became an influential historian of the Caribbean
French food critic attacks Michelin guide
Gilles Pudlowski leaks details of three-star restaurants and says guide had lost the plot
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink – review
Sheri Fink's account of events at a New Orleans hospital post-Katrina asks vital questions about the American healthcare system, writes Peter Beaumont
When the Hills Ask for Your Blood by David Belton – review
David Belton's account of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath serve as a fitting tribute to the actions of a heroic Franciscan priest, writes Chris Mullin
Binyavanga Wainaina interview: coming out in Kenya
Binyavanga Wainaina talks to Tim Adams about the chapter from his memoir titled 'I am a homosexual, Mum' and how it has placed him at the heart of the African debate on gay rights
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Obama’s guru, the biographer of presidents – and Miliband’s muse
Reagan, both Bushes, LBJ … American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has met them all, and now she has a book out on Teddy Roosevelt
Outcry as Penguin India pulps ‘alternative’ history of Hindus
Novelist Arundhati Roy leads chorus of protest after publisher settles lawsuit brought by militant group
Execution of Arab Iranian poet Hashem Shaabani condemned by rights groups
Poet and leading member of banned cultural organisation run by Ahwazi Arab minority reported hanged after public confession
Tristano: the love story that’s unique to each reader
Nanni Balestrini recreates 1966 tale using cutting-edge digital printing technology to make each version one in a trillion …
The Old Testament’s made-up camels are a problem for Zionism
Andrew Brown: The earliest camel bones have been dated at 1,500 years after Genesis – which undermines Zionists' promised land narrative
Wendy Doniger’s book is a tribute to Hinduism’s complexity, not an insult
Vijay Prashad: Penguin's decision to destroy The Hindus: An Alternative History panders to an orthodox, bourgeois view of this great religion
The best books on Iran: start your reading here
Pushpinder Khaneka: Our literary tour of Iran includes a clandestine autobiography under recent regimes, sharp satire and a history of revolution
Stuart Hall’s cultural legacy: Britain under the microscope
Stuart Jeffries: The so-called 'godfather of multiculturalism' changed Britain for the better even while he showed us the ugly truth about our racist society
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen – review
In this powerful though undisciplined account of the young women who taunted Putin, Carole Cadwalladr finds herself with a walk-on part in the story
Russian novelist says book being investigated over ‘gay propaganda’
Authorities deny they want to question Ludmila Ulitskaya over involvement in book mentioning homosexual families