Jerome Liebling obituary
Socially conscious US photographer who focused on 'the everyday, the ordinary'
The political Bible, part 5: equality
Nick Spencer: How to believe: A passage from Genesis plays a big part in underpinning our contemporary commitment to equality
Introducing 9/11 stories
Richard Lea: Ten years after the attacks on New York and Washington, we asked six writers to look back at a decade of change and conflict. What can fiction tell us about 9/11?
Bidisha’s thought for the day: Prizes
Bidisha: So, awards season is upon us – how will women fare?
After 9/11: our own low, dishonest decade
The world changed on 9/11, or so the cliche goes. How have writers responded to the challenge of representing this new reality? A decade on, Pankaj Mishra assesses the best fiction and non-fiction, and reflects on unforeseen geopolitical shifts
Dick Cheney autobiography heaps praise on Tony Blair
Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W Bush, pays tribute to 'one of America's closest and best allies in the war on terror'
How are your reading habits changing?
Open thread: Enhanced ebooks offer screams, thunderstorms and crunching gravel sound effects. Tell us if books are turning a page for you
The political Bible, part 4: toleration
Nick Spencer: How to believe: If the Bible has the logic of intolerance, through adiaphora – 'things indifferent' – it also bears the language of tolerance
Polish journalist Adam Michnik receives Goethe medal
Former dissident and now publisher of Poland's biggest newspaper honoured for work for international cultural relations
Arab spring has created ‘intelligence disaster’, warns former CIA boss
Michael Scheuer says rendition should be brought back as lack of intelligence has left UK and US unable to monitor militants
Libyan revolution has made democracy real and tangible idea, says novelist
Hisham Matar speaks at Edinburgh international book festival after rebel cousin shot dead in Gaddafi's compound
The short life and cruel death of Libyan freedom fighter Izz al-Arab Matar
Booker prize-shortlisted Libyan novelist Hisham Matar writes movingly of how his cousin was killed by a sniper in Muammar Gaddafi's compound
Anders Breivik massacre will change crime writing, says author
Jo Nesbø says his country's reaction to the killings made him proud to be Norwegian
The novel that has got young lovers declaring their passion with padlocks
Thousands are copying the protagonists of Federico Moccia's bestseller I Want You by attaching padlocks to bridges
Italy’s bridges weighed down by locks of love
Lovers write their names on a padlock, attach it to a bridge and throw keys in the river in romantic act inspired by novel