Alistair Cooke correspondence sheds light on reporting dark days of 1968
Letters show Guardian editor thanking US correspondent for Robert Kennedy coverage, and Cooke criticising rivals' 'flash dubious hard news'
What now for Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazil’s national poet?
Ángel Gurría-Quintana: The author's statue sits with its back to the sea in Rio, gazing towards his home in Minas Gerais – but a campaign group wants to turn it around
Sir Rex Hunt obituary
Falklands governor at the time of the 1982 Argentinian invasion
The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Mark Bowden – review
The latest in a long line of al-Qaida books aims to gets inside the mind of Bin Laden's nemesis - Barack Obama, writes Peter Beaumont
Like affairs, biographies hold seduction and betrayal between the pages
Is there a code of ethics for biographers? If there is, it would have to acknowledge the difficulties writers face in serving two masters: their subjects and the truth
Great American novels – quiz
Celebrate the US election result with our quiz on the opening lines of great American novels
Kalle Lasn: the man who inspired the Occupy movement
For more than 20 years, Adbusters magazine has been visually subverting capitalism. Its founder and editor outlines his radical new manifesto
Move over Alan Moore, let’s hear your own political ballads
Open thread: The V for Vendetta author has written a song in support of Occupy. Can you pen some words for a cause you care about?
Alan Moore debut single released by Occupation Records
Comic book author, whose V for Vendetta mask is an Occupy symbol, likens today's stark economic divides to work of killer
Canada and Australia launch women’s literary prizes
Alison Flood: As the search continues for a Women's fiction prize sponsor, two Commonwealth nations have gone ahead and started their own
Paul Giamatti and Billy Bob Thornton to star in JFK biopic
Parkland, co-produced by Tom Hanks, will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy
No Catholic should follow Ayn Rand
Vincent Miller: As American Catholics, we believe that Catholic orthodoxy cannot be reconciled with libertarianism
Penguin chief: News Corp can’t derail Random House deal
John Makinson says transaction has been signed and publisher could not accept cash offer from Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins. By Mark Sweney
Clarks, the shoes that tap to Jamaica’s reggae beat
How did the brand become the music genre's footwear of choice? Tom Horan reveals the history of a strange love affair