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Carl Jung, part 5: Psychological types

Mark Vernon: The Myers-Briggs test is but one offshoot of Jung's attempt to show how radically people's perceptions and instincts can differ

Final hours of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca revealed

Historian claims to know who made up Franco's execution squad and where they buried the poet during Spain's civil war

Pottermore: JK Rowling’s reading 2.0

Nicholas Lezard: With Pottermore, JK Rowling will lead children to a new stage in the evolution of reading – and get them to help with the material

In praise of … John Locke

Editorial: He has become the first author to sell a million ebooks without a publishing deal

Cloud Atlas to be filmed in Berlin as city eyes starring role in movies

City hopes £62m adaptation of David Mitchell's book will become first German blockbuster

Writing poetry the Sarah Palin way

Alison Flood: The recently-released emails become much more interesting when read as found poems – and offer inspiration to us all

Caitlin Moran’s feminist handbook: Panel verdict

Laurie Penny, Selma James, Zohra Moosa and Bella Mackie: Feminism should be as exciting as rock'n'roll, says Moran. Four writers share their views on her book, How to Be a Woman

Carl Jung, part 4: Do archetypes exist?

Mark Vernon: Jung's theory of structuring principles remains controversial – but provides a language to talk about shared experience

Sex selection and the rise of Generation XY

A new book explores western involvement in what has become a scourge of the developing world: sex selection of babies

Pass notes, No 2,994: Che Guevara

The Argentinian revolutionary is publishing a set of diaries, 44 years after his death

New Che Guevara diary published

Diary of a Combatant covers revolutionary's arrival in Cuba in 1956 with Fidel and Raúl Castro through to late 1958

Batgirl back on her feet after 23 years in DC comics reboot

Fans lament end of paraplegic storyline as DC Comics announces all 52 of its series are to revert to issue number one

David Norris still sees his destiny as Ireland’s first gay president

Senator David Norris still confident of nomination despite conservative uproar over 'paedophilia' interview

David Mamet launches tirade against ‘antisemitism’ of British writers

American playwright says books, plays and essays by contemporary authors are full of anti-Jewish 'filth'

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