Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God

Professor argues in The Grand Design that law of gravity, rather than creator, led to Big Bang

The secret of ‘The Secret’

Mark Vernon: Can you really improve your life, and perhaps the world too, by your own inner effort?

Bjørn Lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune

With his new book, Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for huge investment in fighting global warming. But his answers are unlikely to satisfy all climate change campaigners

Bundesbank executive provokes race outcry with book

Merkel leads calls for Thilo Sarrazin to be sacked over remarks about migrants being 'unfit or unwilling to integrated' into society

David Grossman: ‘I cannot afford the luxury of despair’

David Grossman discusses his novel To the End of the Land, a memorial to his son who was killed while serving in the army, and why he remains an opponent of Israel's policy towards the Palestinians. Interview by Rachel Cooke

Amanda Knox senses the pen is mightier than the penal code

Convicted murderer of Meredith Kercher to have musings published by Italian lawmaker who visited her in prison

Science, evolution, and ideology

Mark Vernon: Scientists are careful to put ideology to one side in their work – but not when it comes to books 'for the general reader'

Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide

The authors of a new book, Half the Sky, say the slavery and abuse of women is the greatest moral outrage of our century

Adolf Hitler a war hero? Anything but, said first world war comrades

Unpublished letters and diaries from List regiment soldiers portray Hitler as a loner, an object of ridicule and 'a rear area pig'

Gaza doctor writes book of hope despite death of three daughters

Izzeldin Abuelaish's moving book charts harsh realities of life in Gaza and details harrowing family tragedy that may have halted Israeli offensive

Eat, pray, cash in

First a publishing sensation, now a Hollywood film, Elizabeth Gilbert's spiritual journey has plenty of followers. But does enlightenment come at a price?

Jay-Z’s hymn to modernity

James Harkin: The rapper's paean to New York captures what's great about cities (that's why they love it in Newport)

Changing the Script conforms to type

Mark Oppenheimer: Daniel Schultz's book attempting to reclaim Christianity for progressives cannot escape the conservatives' version of history

The chick-lit debate: light doesn’t have to mean stupid

Michele Gorman: Yesterday DJ Connell called the chick-lit label 'offensive'. But we should celebrate the genre

Confessions of a celebrity biographer

Angelina Jolie is reportedly upset about a new unauthorised book about her, and Jonathan Margolis, author of several celeb biographies, is beginning to see why