Ben Fountain’s top 10 books about Haiti

The novelist chooses the books that best explain a fascinating, baffling, tumultuous country

A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order

Phil Hoad: Film has moved on from the non-linear jigsaws once used to depict our globalised state. Mira Nair's thriller dynamic and the subtlety found in Danish counterpart A Hijacking point the direction things are going

From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy

Jonathan Jones: While Botticelli painted a mean Paradiso, Gustave Doré's dark drawings have been used to publicise Dan Brown's latest novel. We look at the art inspired by Dante's timeless text

Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror by Victoria Brittain – review

Victoria Brittain's account of the experiences suffered by the wives of terror suspects is a vital document, writes Yvonne Roberts

Gemma Arterton: ‘Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times’

The actress talks to Tim Lewis about going clubbing with her mum, her new role in a 'neo-feminist vampire movie' and why she has no regrets about playing Bond girl Strawberry Fields

Dan Brown’s Inferno: Florence hopes for a tourism miracle

Dan Brown's follow-up to The Da Vinci Code finds hidden messages in the work of Dante, providing rich pickings for eager modern conspiracy theorists

Art of fear: which are the best books inspired by the second world war?

Sam Jordison: As a weekend of talks and music at the Southbank Centre explores our cultural debt to the 1940s conflict, we ask which other great works were born on the battlefield

Polish spy said to be inspiration for Bond girls to be commemorated

Krystyna Skarbek, who won a string of medals for her wartime exploits, was described as having mesmeric power over men

Hacks and the City: Candace Bushnell jumps on hacking trend

Media Monkey: Hacker calling himself Guccifer posts first 50 pages of writer's new book on the internet

Murder of an Italian paparazzo: a tale of bunga bunga, blackmail and organised crime

The killing of Daniele Lo Presti in February has exposed how the paparazzi prey on the rich and famous in Italy – and how these hunters are becoming the hunted, writes Tobias Jones

Is Nobuyoshi Araki’s photography art or porn?

Alex Moshakis: Araki's pictures of trussed-up women in various states of undress – currently on show in London – explore the hidden eroticism beneath Japan's polite society

Tom Cruise confirmed for Mission: Impossible 5

Actor returns for fifth Mission after success of Ghost Protocol – reportedly with Jack Reacher's Christopher McQuarrie in tow

1963: the beginning of the feminist movement

Kira Cochrane on the year in which Sylvia Plath killed herself – and Betty Friedan's groundbreaking bestseller The Feminine Mystique was published

Iron Man 3 makes second-biggest US debut of all time

Marvel Studios' latest Tony Stark instalment opens with colossal $175.3m, putting it second only to 2012's The Avengers