Thomas Browne: religion as passion and pastime, part 7: Vulgar Errors II
Roz Kaveney: How to believe: What is interesting about Browne is not that he got things right, but that he thought getting the small things right important
David Cameron: I want to be Harry Potter
PM tells students in Kazakhstan that he would like to be JK Rowling's hero but hints that some might view him as the villain
Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston – review
Gabriel Weston's tale of a gynaecologist who performs abortions is a bold, brave and utterly gripping read, writes Lucy Scholes
China’s War With Japan by Rana Mitter – review
An excellent account of the Sino-Japanese conflict argues that it had a profound impact on the course of the second world war, writes Delia Davin
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain – review
Chris Power is impressed by tightly plotted stories of deluded revolutionaries and patronising idealists
Israeli authors campaign against eviction of West Bank villagers
David Grossman, Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua are among 24 writers calling for reprieve for villages in South Hebron hills
Richard Matheson obituary
Science fiction author and inspiration to Stephen King whose novels, such as I Am Legend, were adapted for film and TV
Why so few women in the London Review of Books?
Kathryn Heyman: I'm assured that the marginal exposure of women in an otherwise worthy journal is a 'complicated' question. Is it, really?
Jim Carrey condemns violence in his own movie Kick-Ass 2
Actor, who filmed role one month before Newtown shootings, tweeted that 'now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence'
Thomas Browne: religion as passion and pastime, part 6: Vulgar Errors I
Roz Kaveney: How to believe: Browne was so keen to dissect obvious absurdity that it is glaring when there are thoughts he doesn't dare let himself think
Kevin Powers: ‘I’ve always had a certain level of comfort with the dark part of the human experience’
The former soldier and winner of the Guardian first book award on conveying the experience of war, the immediacy of poetry, and his instinct to write. Interview by Tim Lewis
Italian Ways by Tim Parks – review
An entertainingly angry study of Italy's railways and the people who run them has Andrew Martin hoping for more
Former death row couple: ‘Life turned out beautifully’
Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle are a happy couple with a rare common bond. Each spent more than 15 years on death row for murder – she in the US, he in Ireland – before being found innocent and given back their freedom. Huma Qureshi meets them
From memory to sexuality, the digital age is changing us completely
Jonathan Freedland: I once thought the world of the internet would be the same as before, only faster. In fact, it's altering every corner of human life
Fifty Shades of Grey the movie – could it maybe, just maybe, be good?
Mathilda Gregory: With Sam Taylor-Johnson directing, an artist who knows a thing about female desire, the film of the hit book could surprise us all