South African campaigners unite against secrecy bill
JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer among those who say bill is country's first attack on democracy since apartheid ended
Greek publishing house revives a tradition in Turkey
Opening of first Greek publishing house in Istanbul for 50 years will help ease tensions, says consul general
Philosophy: Back to big thinking
Editorial: There is a new more expansive mood taking shape in British philosophy, as borne out at Hay-on-Wye
Paul Krugman: ‘I’m sick of being Cassandra. I’d like to win for once’
The American economist has a plan to escape the financial crisis, and it doesn't involve austerity measures or deregulating the banks. But will policy-makers, including our coalition government, heed his advice?
Under Our Skin: A White Family’s Journey Through South Africa’s Darkest Years by Donald McRae – review
Donald McRae's memoir of growing up in apartheid-era South Africa offers an unflinching view of a nation in which all logic is inverted, writes David Smith
Green Lantern to be reintroduced as gay by DC Comics
Revelation ends days of speculation among comics fans after publisher let slip that a superhero would come out
Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller
Nicole Kidman takes on the role of Martha Gellhorn, Bill Clinton attends too many parties, and Tony Blair returns
Rachel Carson and the legacy of Silent Spring
Fifty years after the publication of the book that laid the foundations for the environmental movement, what have we learned from the biologist who saw the need for science to work with nature? Robin McKie reports
Gay superheroes soar into comic book battle
Marvel plans same-sex marriage while DC comics says established character is to come out
Afghanistan has poetry in its soul
Reza Mohammadi: A Taliban poetry book may have raised eybrows but Aghans' lives have been threaded together by verse, throughout its history
John Donne, priest and poet, part 1: love, conscience and martyrdom
Roz Kaveney: How to believe: John Donne thought too much - about love and death and his rejection of the choices of his family to rise up the church's ranks
Fred Pearce: Land grabbing has more of an impact on the world’s poor than climate change
Science and environment author Fred Pearce discusses the growing threat of land grabbing with Tom Templeton
Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible
Richard Dawkins: The good book should be read as a great work of literature – but it is not a guide to morality, as the education secretary Michael Gove would have us believe
The battle of the book reviews
Lionel Shriver: Professional critics are no more reliable than Amazon ratings, a study shows. So do we really need them?