Thomas Szasz obituary
Psychiatrist who fought coercion and denied the existence of mental illness
Sikh protests at JK Rowling’s ‘mustachioed’ girl are misplaced
Balpreet Kaur: I engage with those who ridicule me as a Sikh woman with facial hair – Rowling's character embodies this fight against superficial impressions
The shorter wit and wisdom of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Emma Brockes: A digest of Arnie's 650-page, aptly-named autobiography, Total Recall – from muscles to movies and from Maria to Mildred
Haruki Murakami criticises ‘hysteria’ over islands row
Author's comments follow reports of Japanese books being banned in China in dispute over Senkaku, or Diaoyu, islands
Life of Pi – first look review
Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's novel – which opened the New York film festival – is the summation of the principle powering his career: still waters run deep
Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying by Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review
Conversations between German PoWs recorded by British intelligence reveal a chilling attitude to mass murder, writes Ben Hutchinson
Hanna Rosin: ‘I feel miscast in the gender wars’
The author of The End of Men talks to Lisa O'Kelly about her controversial book – and the fall-out
JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy has critics in a muggle of magic metaphors
Emma Brockes: Reviewers can't agree if The Casual Vacancy is literary genius or overwrought tosh, but all quoted the same lines to make a case
Five polemical books set to be election season conservative bestsellers
Oliver Burkeman: As Ann Coulter begins the publicity tour for her new book, Mugged, we preview five other titles sure to be rightwing hits
Stephen King’s Misery set for US stage adaptation
Misery … cannot be dead! New theatre adaptation of King's book to open in Pennsylvania in November
A rocket from Rochdale: Co-op tells its story in graphic novel form
Movement releases celebration of its pioneers, from their Lancashire roots to an imagined space mission in 2044
Karl Popper, the enemy of certainty, part 3: rejecting politics as science
Liz Williams: Marxism, Popper claims, is analogous to the psychological theories of Adler and pseudo-sciences such as astrology
The library with no rules
Manila's Reading Club 2000 is a library like no other: it lets anyone borrow and then bring back or keep any of its thousands of books
Germany’s reading list: crime, sex and economics
Some of the most popular books by German authors centre on detection and analysis – be it criminal, physical or fiscal
Santiago Carrillo obituary
Communist leader committed to democracy in post-Franco Spain, but whose party found little electoral support