Amanda Knox book release postponed in UK
Waiting to be Heard will be published as planned in US, Canada and Australia but legal concerns delay British launch
Poster poems: religion
Billy Mills: Whether you're believer, blasphemer or Buddhist – this month's commandment is to share with us your spiritual scribblings
London Book Fair: Elif Shafak on Turkey’s progress
With Turkey the focus of this year's London Book Fair, Elif Shafak says her country is starting to find its voice
Cat Marnell may be a freak show, but she’s staring right back at us
Megan Carpentier: Love or hate her, the blogger chooses to write about her drug use. And after sealing that book deal, you can't deny her agency
What a Blooming mistake: Irish coin misquotes line from Ulysses
Central Bank of Ireland gaffe causes 10,000 €10 coins honouring Irish modernist writer to be minted with an extra word
Why Margaret Thatcher chose Wordsworth’s Ode for her funeral
John Mullan: Intimations of Immortality is a remarkable choice, both heartfelt and considered
Pablo Neruda: Chile’s beloved poet endures, as do questions over his death
Mike Gonzalez: Neruda's art was part of the struggle for social justice. His body is being exhumed over claims Pinochet's regime murdered him
Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s body to be exhumed over murder claims
Chilean poet was long thought to have succumbed to cancer but driver claims he was murdered by Pinochet regime
The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment
Peter Thompson: How to believe: Adorno and Horkheimer wrote this key text during their wartime exile, arriving at a pessimistic view of our place in a false system
The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantánamo by Ahmed Errachidi – review
One man's account of his imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay reveals great courage. It needed to be told, writes Tim Adams
Dying for the Truth: Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War – excerpt
In this extract, the anonymous duo behind the Blog del Narco tell why they risk their lives to document Mexico's war on drugsReported in partnership with the Texas observer
‘They stole our dreams’: blogger reveals cost of reporting Mexico’s drug wars
Exclusive: Author of celebrated Blog del Narco speaks for first time about the dangers – and reveals she is a woman
Jean Floud obituary
Leading educational sociologist and academic who became the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
How Beyond a Boundary broke down the barriers of race, class and empire
Selma James: Fifty years ago my husband's book on cricket inspired our anti-discrimination struggles – and continues to do so to this day
Amina Cachalia turned down Nelson Mandela’s offer of marriage, son claims
Activist politely rebuffed Mandela's proposal in 1990s out of loyalty to her late husband, says Ghaleb Cachalia