The Frankfurt school, part 7: what’s left?
Peter Thompson: How to believe: Habermas and Honneth represent both a break with the Frankfurt school and continuity around the theme of reification
Judy Blume helped a generation of young women to grow up
Morven Crumlish: Fans will whoop to hear Tiger Eyes has been made into a film. For many she was the first writer to make sense of the world
Waiting to Be Heard: A memoir by Amanda Knox – review
The compelling drama at the heart of Knox's account of her incarceration is more than fodder for online obsessives, says Tom Kington
Niall Ferguson apologises for remarks about ‘gay and childless’ Keynes
In speech at conference, Harvard professor implied economist lacked foresight because he was childless and gay
Read all about Amanda Knox – except in neurotic Britain
Nick Cohen: Fear of libel action stopped UK publication of Amanda Knox's memoir – and shows again how little we care about free speech
Isabel Allende: ‘I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world’
The magical realist talks to Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy about writing as a 'rollercoaster', and why her late daughter's presence never leaves her
A glimpse into Guantánamo Bay’s library
Nina Martyris: From the well-thumbed – Danielle Steele – to the untouched classics, pictures posted by US journalists show the reading matter permitted in the world's most controversial prison
Steven Spielberg and Bradley Cooper join forces to adapt American Sniper
Film based on autobiography of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American military history, who was shot dead at a firing range in February
The Syrian revolution has changed me as a writer
Samar Yazbek on how the relationship between her life and writing is now informed by reality, not fiction
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