Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) opens to public
Online archive of more than 2m books, documents, photographs and artworks from all over US now available to view for free
Anne Frank’s diary isn’t pornographic – it just reveals an uncomfortable truth
Emer O’Toole: Instead of banning the diary from schools, as Gail Horalek would like, we should teach girls not to be ashamed of their bodies
Amanda Knox: I went to jail naive and came out an introspective woman
US student tried for Meredith Kercher murder uses TV interview to restate innocence and ask to be 'reconsidered as a person'
Colin Firth set to join up with Matthew Vaughn’s The Secret Service
The actor is in line to star in the Kick-Ass director's new project for his first comic-book movie
Small Wars, Far Away Places by Michael Burleigh – review
Burleigh's survey of distant conflicts contains some small masterpieces but delights too much in human folly, writes Ben Shephard
Amanda Knox book not published in UK ‘due to libel laws’
HarperCollins advised not to publish British edition, after concerns arising from retrial and Italian defamation cases. By Mark Sweney
Iron Man 3 international cut angers Chinese bloggers
Internet users in China who have seen international cut of new superhero movie dismayed at lack of airtime for Chinese stars and China-set sequences
Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne was first world war propagandist
Writer was anti-war but new discovery shows he was drafted by military intelligence service MI7b, shut down in 1918
Optimism is appealing, but pessimism, alarm and anxiety have their uses
Ian Jack: Some believe the world, and humanity, is still capable of improving itself, but the endorsements for pessimism are often more persuasive
Amanda Knox reiterates innocence as memoir is published
The 25-year-old was reportedly paid $4m to recount her four years in an Italian jail for the murder of Meredith Kercher
Facts are Sacred: now available in exclusive iPad edition
Our new book is now available in an enhanced interactive iPad version
Stephen King makes ‘substantial’ donation to Maine gun control group
Author gives five-figure sum to Coalition for a Safer Maine
Fifty Shades of Grey: Gus van Sant makes steamy bid for director’s chair
Van Sant has reportedly shot sex scene – with Alex Pettyfer as Christian Grey – in hopes of tying himself to forthcoming film
The best books on Colombia: start your reading here
Pushpinder Khaneka reviews three Colombian classics that depict a land of magic and mayhem, with an eye on history, drugs and the country's many complexities
The best books on Nigeria: start your reading here
Pushpinder Khaneka's literary tour of Nigeria takes in precolonial times, the fallout of war and the double-edged sword of oil wealth