Antitrusting Apple: the plot with publishers to hike ebook prices

Dan Gillmor: I was a rabid ebook buyer but their greed cost them my loyalty

Hobbit profits at centre of The Butler title row, says Harvey Weinstein

Spat over film's title rights escalates as Harvey Weinstein accuses Warner Bros of bullying on morning TV

Even Le Carré’s latest fiction can’t do justice to Snowden

Simon Jenkins: Whistleblower and novelist both finger the enemy as their own side. But the full horror of truth always outdoes the imagination

Activists call for Ender’s Game boycott over author’s anti-gay views

US group Geeks Out launches 'Skip Ender's Game' website, citing novelist Orson Scott Card's opposition to gay marriage

Thomas Browne: religion as passion and pastime, part 8: on the death of a friend

Roz Kaveney: How to believe: Browne's approach to grief is a pragmatic one: memory and the possibility of learning are our consolations

What makes a ‘real African’?

Maaza Mengiste: Too often the continent's writers are quizzed about their identity rather than the world they create

Fascism in Greece: we needn’t say goodbye to Athens quite yet

Jon Wiltshire: Greece is in crisis and fascism is on the rise, but it still falls far short of the 1930s Berlin chronicled by Christopher Isherwood

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review

A compelling study argues that the rise of four ideologues to the world stage in 1979 had far-reaching consequences, writes Ian Thomson

Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business by Lynda Obst – review

David Thomson on the cynicism and gush of the hard-bitten Hollywood producer Lynda Obst

Sahar Delijani: ‘I had to tell my family’s story of the Iranian executions’

Sahar Delijani's parents were jailed and her uncle was killed by Iran's Islamic Republic in the 1980s. She tells Laura Barnett how the painful episode became her first novel, Children of the Jacaranda Tree

Steven Spielberg eyes Grapes of Wrath

Director poised to produce new film adaptation of John Steinbeck novel for DreamWorks, according to reports

Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police – review

Espionage involves deception and betrayal, usually of people you have pretended to befriend. It's a sordid business, writes Bernard Porter

Che Guevara’s ‘betrayer’ tells his side of the story after 40 years

Ciro Bustos, who sketched Guevara's face for the Bolivian army, tries to kill myth he sold out the Argentinian revolutionary

We keep moaning about population, but ignore consumption habits

Andrew Simms: Sharing planet Earth's finite resources in a better way is a more practical way of managing the needs of a rising population

Christian Bale gives up Batman role

Actor hangs up his cape, saying character is 'a torch' that should be handed on