Maurice Sendak, who let children be just what they wanted
Morven Crumlish: Where the Wild Things Are, like Maurice Sendak's other books, is far less unsettling for children than it is for adults
Why shouldn’t paganism have a place in RE lessons?
Liz Williams: Cornish schools won't be 'teaching witchcraft and druidry', less still black mass – religious education doesn't equal indoctrination
Machiavelli’s The Prince, part 7: the two sides of human nature
Nick Spencer: How to believe: The author's dark view of human nature was out of tune with his age, but his talk of the beast within is almost post-Darwin
The beguiling power of mystery that can make us forget a family’s pain
Henry Porter: Our desire for life to be dramatic can lead us to merge real-life stories such as the death of Gareth Williams into fiction
Why is there so much misogyny online?
The conversation: Why do women face such misogyny in the media, particularly online? TV presenter Miriam O'Reilly and feminist writer Nina Power share their thoughts and experiences
Tehran International Book Fair launches crackdown on ‘harmful’ titles
Annual event that attracts 500,000 visitors a day has revoked licences of publishing houses and banned them from attending
David Weiss obituary
As half of the Swiss art duo Fischli/Weiss, he made striking use of photography, film, clay – and questions
Microsoft invests $300m in Barnes & Noble’s Nook ebook business
Barnes & Noble shares soar as deal with software giant eases fears that bookseller lacks capital to compete with Amazon
Women’s Library campaign boosted by celebrity support
Sandi Toksvig and Shirley Conran back renowned collection threatened with drastic cuts, and signatures mount on e-petition to Michael Gove
Machiavelli’s The Prince, part 6: was Machiavelli an atheist?
Nick Spencer: The book's short chapter on 'church states' is a masterpiece of subtle, savage anti-ecclesiastical irony
Rabindranath Tagore: the poet at 150
Editorial: One of the most remarkable poets and thinkers produced by India, or indeed the world
Republishing Mein Kampf is a good idea
David Cesarani: Elements of Hitler's rant still hold some power, but it has lost its relevance even to the far right
Mein Kampf to be re-released with notes countering Hitler’s arguments
German officials hope distributing banned book will demystify views held by Nazis
AA Gill, drop the cheap jibes about Mary Beard – and learn something
Miriam O'Reilly: Three years ago I took a stand against ageism at the BBC. The tide is now turning against those who judge by appearances
On her majesty’s silver service: expats dust off tuxedos for BritWeek in LA
Britons famous, once famous and perhaps to be famous again are beating the drum for the UK in Hollywood this week