Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain by Christopher Moran – review
What role has elite arrogance played in government secrecy? This book provides a valuable if limited answer, writes Bernard Porter
Emile Durkheim: religion – the very idea, part 5: humanity and the nation
Gordon Lynch: How to believe: The blending of nationalist and humanitarian moral sensibilities was not merely a quirk of Durkheim's personality
Inspiring tale of dying Florida woman’s adventures to hit bestsellers list
Film and book will tell story of Susan Spencer-Wendel's battle to live a full life as disease took its toll
The Most Despised Science Book of 2012 is … worth reading
Mark Vernon: Philosophers that break scientistic taboos, such as Thomas Nagel with Mind and Cosmos, risk much, but we need them
Emerging wave of Iraq fiction examines America’s role in ‘bullshit war’
Flood of books with 'elegiac feel running through them' tackle eight-year conflict and help US to understand the folly of war. Paul Harris reports
A plaque, a Hobbit hotel and a JRR Tolkien trail that’s petered out …
Welcome to Bloemfontein, South African birthplace of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author
New year’s resolutions: can you really change your life?
The conversation: Millions of resolutions will be made – and quickly broken – next week. Agony aunt Irma Kurtz and philosopher Jules Evans debate the art of self-improvement
Pearson to take on Amazon by buying stake in e-reader venture Nook
Financial Times owner looks to tap into student market by taking 5% share in digital book venture in a deal worth $89.5m. By Mark Sweney
Midnight’s Children – review
This adaptation by Salman Rushdie of his Booker-winning Midnight's Children, captures the novel's ambitious scope and good intentions, writes Philip French
Jan Carew obituary
Caribbean novelist, playwright and scholar committed to the cultural unity of the black world
Grimm’s Fairy Tales: 200th anniversary triggers a year of celebration
Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and roots of Nazism on agenda at Kassel congress for 200th anniversary of brothers' classic tales
Bret Easton Ellis apologises to Kathryn Bigelow for ‘hot woman’ tweet
Author and screenwriter says sorry for suggesting The Hurt Locker director only won Oscars because she was 'a hot woman'
Real Geronimo was wily fighter whose skill lay in avoiding war, author claims
New book by Robert Utley claims Apache warrior was neither simply a merciless killer – nor a noble hero, says Paul Harris
Ravi Shankar obituary
Indian virtuoso who took the sitar to the world
Fantasy author Scott Lynch shows he’s a gentleman, not a bastard
Alison Flood: The creator of The Lies of Locke Lamora lays into a reader calling him out over the women in his PC pirate brigade