Jungle Book movie to be directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Warner Bros moving ahead with live-action Rudyard Kipling film, even though a similar project is under way at Disney

Gillian Slovo wins Golden PEN award

Novelist wins free speech charity's prize soon after contentious resignation as its president

Vatican and Bodleian libraries launch online archive of ancient religious texts

Website funding from Polonsky Foundation includes Bodleian's 1455 Gutenberg Bible and aims to put 1.5m pages online

Best at rugby*, top of the charts: the joy of being a Kiwi

Singer Lorde and Man Booker prize winner Eleanor Catton have become ambassadors for a cultural renaissance in NZ

Naomie Harris interview: ‘Playing Winnie is the hardest thing I’ve done’

Naomie Harris talks to Kate Kellaway about playing the controversial figure of Winnie Mandela in the new Nelson Mandela biopic

Princess Bride memoir to be written by Cary Elwes

Lead actor of cult 1980s movie to publish account of making the postmodern fairy story

Jeremy Scahill: the man exposing the US Dirty War

While making the documentary Dirty Wars, Scahill met the survivors of secret US hit squads around the world – and promised to bring their story back to America, he tells Stephen Moss

The wisest minds of our time: Guardian readers share their picks

Kayla Epstein: 'Normally I don't go in for Hindu gurus, but she's got it going on:' our readers single out the greatest minds of the 21st century

Hammer to reanimate Abominable Snowman film

British outfit to make new version of cult 50s Yeti horror starring Peter Cushing in wake of Woman in Black success

Referring to JFK’s presidency as ‘Camelot’ doesn’t do him justice

Sarah-Jane Stratford: The musical that prompted the Camelot reference is actually a story of failed idealism. It, like all mythology, distracts us from the truth

CS Lewis’s literary legacy: ‘dodgy and unpleasant’ or ‘exceptionally good’?

It's 50 years since CS Lewis died. His legacy encompasses far more than just Narnia – Rowan Williams, AS Byatt, Philip Pullman and others give their thoughts on his body of work

In or Outsider? Camus and Algeria

Sam Jordison: How far the novel expresses Camus' own view of his birth country has been much on readers' minds

Fifty Shades of Grey goes viral – literally

Library copies of the bestselling sadomasochistic romance were found to carry traces of herpes and cocaine

Priscilla: the Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare – review

Nicholas Shakespeare unearths some awkward truths in researching the wartime story of his glamorous aunt, writes Lucy Lethbridge