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Raffaele Sollecito makes new claims in memoir about Amanda Knox trial

Emma Brockes: Knox's boyfriend at the time of Meredith Kercher's murder delivers a curious story in memoir that alleges sloppy police work

Salman Rushdie bounty increased amid anti-Islam film controversy

Iranian state-run body says current violence over Islamophobic film would not have occurred if fatwa had been carried out

Not following EastEnders’ plotlines? Maybe some Bible study would help

John Sutherland: A huge plug was pulled on literature when school days stopped beginning with obligatory immersion in the Bible

Bernhard Schlink: Deutschsein ist ‘eine riesige Belastung’

Ein Interview mit dem Schriftsteller über Kriegsschuld, deutschen Fatalismus, und die Eurokrise

I used to scorn ‘cool girls’, but now see they don’t really exist

Bim Adewunmi: The much-hyped book Gone Girl has in it a wonderful rant about 'cool girls', but they are no less boxed in than other women

Karl Popper, the enemy of certainty, part 2: the virtue of refutation

Liz Williams: How to believe: Popper's philosophy of science was based on the principle that a theory cannot be scientific unless it is falsifiable

Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden

Author and philosopher who has broken taboos in confronting Nazi past says war legacy haunts each successive generation

Historian uncovers her family link to secret Nazi’s role in the Holocaust

The guilty tale of the German civil servant who married her godmother is revealed in a new book by historian Mary Fulbrook

Anti-western violence gripping the Arab world has little to do with a film

Analysis: Attacks on embassies have more to do with perceived imperialism and the activities of Muslim fundamentalists

Jerusalem shopkeeper caught in legal web over Spider-Man kippa

Avi Binyamin, owner of Kippa Man shop, is being sued by Marvel over sale of accessory that bears likeness of comic book hero

Rome bans lovers’ padlocks to safeguard ancient bridge

Italian officials want to 'restore decorum' to Milvian bridge, which became focal point for tradition inspired by cult novel

Midnight’s Children at risk of not being screened in India, says director

No Indian film distributor has bought rights to adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel about India after independence

What’s made Bret Easton Ellis such a sourpuss?

Barbara Ellen: Easton Ellis has become someone someone who can be relied upon to kick off at random targets for no reason

Eva Figes obituary

Novelist and critic best known for her book Patriarchal Attitudes

Shulamith Firestone obituary

US radical women's liberationist whose ideas on gender inequality were ahead of her time

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  • Richard Meier obituary
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  • Alexander Kluge, author and key film-maker in the New German Cinema movement, dies aged 94
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