The investigative journalist and author of a study of Gypsy and Traveller communities tells Killian Fox why she was drawn to their lives, history and culture
Tom Stoppard's fierce, unrelenting opposition to the abuse of human rights makes him the ideal recipient of the Pinter/PEN prize, writes Michael Billington
Fifty years after Kim Philby fled to Moscow while working for the Observer, new light is being shed on the links that united a clubland elite with a taste for secret service adventures
Joanna Moorhead: When she entered a convent, Eleanor Stewart was ready to dedicate her life to God. But working as a midwife, she realised her true vocation lay elsewhere – as a mother
Xan Brooks: The 2013 edition of the Venice film festival also finds room for James Franco, Hayao Miyazaki and Paul Schrader's controversial The Canyons, starring Lindsay Lohan