Cannes film festival set to honour the bookworm
Coveted Palme d'Or likely to go to a screen adaptation, with many of this year's entrants borrowing from literature
Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn – review
A ludicrous study of Hitler recasts the Führer as a precursor of Simon Cowell, writes Peter Conrad
In defence of self-help books
Alain de Botton: The ancient philosophers recognised we all need help navigating our lives – so what explains self-help books' decline in prestige?
The Second Sexism is just victim-envy
Suzanne Moore: It is perfectly possible to understand that many men are suffering at the moment without blaming it on feminism
I’d rather be a Catholic than be ‘respectable’
Catherine Pepinster: Hilary Mantel says the Catholic church is no longer a place for 'respectable people'. But respectability is a problematic notion
Carlos Fuentes obituary
Mexico's most celebrated novelist
Crime writer Petros Markaris channels Greek rage into fiction
Murders at heart of new book resonate strongly with a mass readership furious at Greece's tax-dodging elite
What is left unsaid is often more powerful and poetic
Biljana Scott: Implicit communication is vital to diplomacy – as we can keep our options open while not causing offence
Time to Start Thinking by Edward Luce – review
A compelling study shows why American politicians are in denial about their nation's decline, writes John Gray
Name of Federico García Lorca’s lover emerges after 70 years
Box of mementoes reveals that young art critic Juan Ramírez de Lucas had brief affair with Spanish poet
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