Karl Marx, part 4: ‘Workers of the world, unite!’
Peter Thompson: The main point of the Communist Manifesto is that capitalism creates the conditions for its own downfall
A brief guide to dictator lit
When not tyrannising their people, it seems despots such as Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein like to turn their hand to writing books
Xinran: Once upon a life
Separated from her mother by the Cultural Revolution, the author Xinran grew up with her grandparents and considered herself an orphan. Years later, with her own child, she found herself making the same mistakes
The US swallowed these cups of tea to justify its imperial aims
Madeleine Bunting: Greg Mortenson's wild Pakistan tale exposes more than one fantasist – it reveals Americans' delusion about their 'civilising' mission
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible is shocking. Shockingly bad, that is
Mark Vernon: The problem with James Frey's book isn't blasphemy per se. Good blasphemy, unlike this adolescent theology, is valuable
Greg Mortenson to be sued by tribesmen he said kidnapped him
Three Cups of Tea author to have lawsuit filed against him by Mansur Khan Mahsud, who says his story is 'lies from A to Z'
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