World’s leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft
500 signatories including Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb state abuses
International bill of digital rights: call from 500 writers around the world
In a petition to the United Nations, a group of authors agree that democratic rights must apply in virtual as in real space
Caroline Criado-Perez: ‘I don’t know if I had a kind of breakdown’
Elizabeth Day talks to the student whose fight for a female face on British bank notes made her a target for abuse online
Maya Angelou writes poem in honour of Nelson Mandela
Angelou's poem, His Day is Done, is circulated in 15 languages as a tribute to Mandela 'on behalf of the American people'
Harvey Weinstein and Warner Bros in Hobbit legal showdown
Hollywood producer and studio go to arbitration over claims they owe him millions for Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy
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