Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini obituary
Reforming Roman Catholic cardinal who said the church was '200 years out of date' in an interview published after his death
Iris Murdoch letters reveal love for close friend Philippa Foot
Lottery money secures collection of 250 letters written to fellow philosopher and one-time lover between 1940s and 1990s
Pentagon threatens Seal over Osama bin Laden killing book
No Easy Day author is in breach of agreements not to reveal classified information, says letter that foreshadows legal action
Dominique Strauss-Kahn movie due to start filming
Film to join array of books and plays about French politician arrested over alleged attempted rape of US hotel worker
Books put François Hollande’s love life in spotlight
Several new books explore tangled relations between French president, his partner and his ex
Revealing Eden author needs some Good Black Friends
Bim Adewunmi: If Victoria Foyt is serious about portraying the horrors of racism in her young adult trilogy, she should listen to those who know
Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants by Hsiao-Hung Pai – review
The lives of China's rural migrants come into sharp focus in this insightful account, says Sukhdev Sandhu
Racism row novel Revealing Eden falls at every hurdle
The Pearls and Coals of Victoria Foyt's YA dystopia are not only deeply suspect, they're also delivered in awful prose with negligible plot
Forbes list of most powerful women finds little room for Britons
Only the Queen and JK Rowling make cut on annual power list headed for second year by German chancellor Angela Merkel
Heidi Holland obituary
Author of the best book yet written about Zimbabwe's descent into tyranny under Robert Mugabe
Is Niall Ferguson’s Newsweek attack on Obama ’embarrassing’ and ‘unethical’?
Paul Krugman is among the intellectual heavyweights tearing apart the British historian for a 'careless and unconvincing' article
Martine Franck obituary
Photographer whose work ranged from portraits of the famous to pictures of the poor
Rowan Williams and Francis Spufford on being a Christian
Mark Vernon: The archbishop and the historian have the elusory character of Christianity on their minds in their new books
Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science
Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase 'paradigm shift', as John Naughton explains