Académie Française challenged to update language with fresh bons mots
Could attachiant, eurogner or bête seller win approval from the French-language watchdog and make it into the dictionary?
The cool twists of language
David Bellos: Guardian letter writers have been enjoying dissecting the word 'cool' – it may have had a surprising path to its modern meaning
War Horse transfers to Australia
National theatre's mega-successful play to follow high-selling Broadway run with stint at the Arts Centre in Melbourne
Médecins sans Frontières book reveals aid agencies’ ugly compromises
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed gives inside account of forced deals with regimes which abuse human rights
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government For a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton – review
Bill Clinton's rallying cry to America is big on policy detail and short on human interest, says Erik Tarloff
How do you write crime fiction in the wake of a massacre?
The mass slaughter on Utøya in July shook Norway to its core. Now the country's crime writers must come to terms with what happened, writes Andrew Anthony
Celebrating the 1611 King James Bible
Rowan Williams: The 1611 translation never seeks to make it easy, which is what gives this 400-year-old version its abiding importance
Pieter Hugo photographs the lingering legacy of the Rwanda genocide
Sean O'Hagan: The still-visible aftermath of the 1994 atrocities forms the focus of one of Hugo's projects, in which he challenges the camera's power to portray things as they really are
Europe’s archived trove of rare Great War documents goes online
Libraries across Europe are collaborating to make 400,000 documents available to the public
11.22.63 by Stephen King – review
Stephen King's convoluted tale of time travel to prevent JFK's assassination is little more than a bore, says Rachel Cooke
By day, I shot my boss Hosni Mubarak. By night, I dreamt of dictator’s downfall
Ahmed Mourad was Hosni Mubarak's personal photographer until his overthrow. But he also wrote a thriller about Egypt's corruption that became a bestseller. Interview by Mark Seacombe
Gloria Steinem: ‘I think we need to get much angrier’
Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women's rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century. She tells Rachel Cooke about her opposition to cosmetic surgery and her ambivalence about President Obama
Liu Xiaobo: new book lifts China’s gag on jailed Nobel peace prizewinner
Liu Xiaobo, winner of Nobel peace prize, will have his collected writings published in English for the first timeRead 'Your Lifelong Prisoner' – Liu Xiaobo's poem from prison
The Bible according to David Cameron: verse choices surprise
Prime minister ignores options offered by aides as he contributes to celebrity section of handwritten People's Bible
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War, by Peter Englund – review
By following 20 ordinary people through the horrors of the first world war, Peter Englund has created a work of unconventional brilliance, writes Ian Thomson