Is the Hollywood remake dead?
David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is only the latest English-language version of a hit Scandi film to disappoint at the box office. Have we now got a taste for 'authentic originals'?
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre – review
An entertaining story of double agents – but is the genre exhausted? By Simon Winder
Iris Murdoch against the robots
Andrew Brown: The Sovereignty of Good suggests that the world science reveals does not supersede our inner worlds, but becomes one of them
Salman Rushdie v Imran Khan: it’s war
The novelist and the politician have fallen out, and it looks far more serious than the typical celebrity spat
The Hunger Games smashes US box office records
Sci-fi thriller takes $155m on opening weekend and could become '$1bn franchise'
Ian McEwan: misery of attack on Iran would be beyond belief
Author says regime is 'looking very wobbly,' but that an attack would reunite the country behind its leaders
The rise of ‘mommy porn’: UK writer lures Hollywood with bestselling erotic trilogy Fifty Shades
Major film deal in pipeline for EL James, whose trilogy began as fan fiction online
Simin Daneshvar obituary
The first Iranian woman to publish under her own name, she explored the country's postwar occupation in the novel Savushun
Revealed: the moaning of miserable medieval monks
Alison Flood: 'I am very cold' and other marginalia, written centuries ago by monks transcribing books, shows that not all was joy and light
Nilou Mobasser obituary
Other lives: Translator who gave voice to censored Iranian writers and worked as an Arabic and Persian media monitor for the BBC
Dutch author Guus Kuijer wins Astrid Lindgren memorial award
UK authors Quentin Blake and Neil Gaiman miss out as jury praises Kuijer's 'philosophical insight' and 'respect for children'
Fidel Castro may have known of Oswald plan to kill JFK, book claims
Retired CIA officer says Cuban leader ordered intelligence officer to listen for news from Texas on morning of shooting
Mystery grows over the Jewish boy who survived Buchenwald
Naked Among Wolves, Bruno Apitz's story of a boy surviving the Nazi concentration camp, is republished, reigniting dispute over fate of Roma boy
Roger Scruton and the kindly atheists
Mark Vernon: Scruton's reflections on what it is to be human shed light on the reluctance of some atheists to reject religion's poetry
Death of a salesman: no more door-to-door Britannica
The legendary encyclopedia collection is to be printed no more. So it's farewell to the salesmen too