Why that Jane Austen quotation on the new £10 note is a major blunder

Duplicated many million times on the new £10 banknote will be a line in praise of reading – it's a shame it was uttered by an Austen character who had no genuine interest in reading at all

Jane Austen to appear on £10 note

Bank of England governor Mark Carney says author will feature from 2017 in victory for activists calling for more female faces

Vincenzo Cerami obituary

Italian screenwriter, novelist and poet who formed a successful partnership with film director Roberto Benigni

If rap gets peckish: 2 Chainz prepares cookbook to accompany new album

2 Chainz says B.O.A.T.S II will have a recipe for every song. He's the latest in a long line of rappers who know their onions, says Stuart Heritage

The Slavoj Žižek v Noam Chomsky spat is worth a ringside seat

Peter Thompson: It's barely caused a ripple outside leftist discourse, but their debate on theory, ideology and reality touches on important stuff

Jonathan Franzen: ‘Egypt is the worst place to be a migratory bird’

Adam Welz: US author sounds warning over Egyptian trapping that kills millions of birds as they migrate from Europe into Africa

The best books on Brazil: start your reading here

Pushpinder Khaneka's Brazilian adventure begins with a celebrated literary classic and ends with a heady historical portrait of this vibrant nation

Bill Gates invites us all to read Jared Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday

Liz Bury: The philanthropist has shared his summer reading list to provoke debate on popular science and morality in world affairs

12 Years a Slave: first trailer hits web

Steve McQueen's historical drama, based on a true story, stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a free man tricked into bondage in the 1840s

Henning Mankell: ‘I shall not miss Wallander’

Now that Henning Mankell has consigned his gloomy detective to a care home, what next for the master of Scandi-noir? Well, a novel about a young Swedish brothel madam in Mozambique, actually