Whither the dream of the universal library?
Peter Singer: Imagine a library of everything ever written. We could achieve it, but the copyright system is skewed toward corporate interests
The revolution in Arabic fiction prefigures the Arab spring
Peter Clark: Over the last decade, a new generation of Arabic novelists has been moving beyond the social realism of their predecessors to reach out to the world
Karl Marx, part 3: Men make their own history
Peter Thompson: For Marx, there are no iron laws, history is formed by the relationship between the material forces and social relations of production
Lyudmila Ulitskaya: why I’m not afraid of Vladimir Putin
Lyudmila Ulitskaya has shown she is not afraid to take on the Kremlin over jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky or the right to freedom of expression
Women on the front line
Female journalists before the second world war were few in number and dealt with 'soft' subjects, but those who became reporters were often as remarkable as the stories they covered
Chinese 3D porn film may get sequel
Producers of groundbreaking adult movie Sex and Zen 3D: Extreme Ecstasy planning follow-up with new cast
Jean Liedloff obituary
Her book on parenting was influenced by childcare in the jungle
Ashes of psychoanalysis co-founder Alfred Adler traced
Remains of Alfred Adler, a member of Freud's inner circle credited with defining the inferiority complex, lay in Edinburgh crematorium for 74 years
Hadley Freeman at Tina Fey’s book launch
Tina Fey, in New York, interviewed by David Remnick? Do Fridays get any better than this? Hadley Freeman found out
Russia’s cosmonauts of dystopia
Claire Armitstead: The spirit of Yuri Gagarin will launch a new breed of Russian writers in London next week
Religion is not really about ethics
Harriet Baber: As a compendium of moral doctrine the Bible doesn't come off well. Its relevance lies in its teaching of the nature of God
Sharing is a bold way to preserve Kafka’s legacy
Nicholas Murray: The Bodleian Library and German Literary Archive's joint purchase of 100 letters will shed new light on Kafka's favourite sister, Ottla
How Joseph Barsabbas’s letter might have read
Barsabbas is mooted in Acts as a replacement for Judas. Michael McGhee imagines his words to the 'first martyr' Stephen
Malcolm X: the man behind the myth
Fledgling pimp, militant radical, Islamic convert . . . black activist Malcolm X was no stranger to controversy. Now a new biography explodes the myths that obscure the man
New light on Christianity’s Jewish roots
Alan Wilson: It would be wonderful to know more about the life of Palestinian Christians in the period in which they were simply Jews