Women are happy to let feminists get bashed
Hannah Betts: Few are prepared to defend the movement that gave women rights. That's why Piers Paul Read can attack it without being challenged
Notre Damned: with adaptations, fidelity is a virtue
Marianne M Gilchrist: There's more to Notre Dame de Paris than Quasimodo, but the latest movie adaptation sounds unlikely to do the novel justice
Twilight’s feminist backlash
Bidisha: That a woman created Bella's man-worshipping, abuse-excusing pathology is baffling – luckily strong heroines abound elsewhere
Barnes & Noble squares up to tycoon Ron Burkle in poison pill trial
Bookseller Barnes & Noble is locked in a fierce courtroom battle with private equity tycoon Ron Burkle
Why Lee Siegel is wrong to declare the novel dead
Robert McCrum: The US critic's attack on the novel does us good, but history will view this as a golden age of English language creativity
Anna Chapman and the ‘Russian spies’ no match for the steely cold war agents
The media has tried to make Moscow's suburban undercover agents glamorous. Well they're not
Plato’s stave: academic cracks philosopher’s musical code
Historian claims Plato's manuscripts are mathematically ordered according to 12-note scale
An interview with Harper Lee! At last!
Author Harper Lee is famously shy of talking to the press. So imagine the excitement when one newspaper flagged its "interview" . . .
Descartes letter found by web surfer heads home to France
Letter stolen by notorious 19th-century book thief Guglielmo Libri had been gathering dust in a US college library
José Saramago, master of what-ifs
Maya Jaggi: A communist who quarrelled with the church and fell out with Castro, the Portuguese Nobel laureate was wedded to the 'possibility of the impossible' and to the questioning of 'truths'
What Noam Chomsky taught Elle Macpherson
The political thinker, the supermodel and the life-changing book
In praise of … Miklós Bánffy
Editorial: Fiction set in Transylvania has never recovered from the Dracula legacy which dictates that this remote part of Romania is the scene only of Gothic horror
Henning Mankell on Gaza flotilla attack: ‘I think they went out to murder’
Swedish crime writer describes the 'horrifying moment' when he realised Israelis had chosen to attack the ships
Wallander author Henning Mankell said to be in custody following Gaza flotilla attack
Spokesperson says Swedish writer safe and unhurt as German politician gives first-hand account of Mavi Marmara raid
The Hobbit director quits – who should replace Guillermo del Toro?
Open thread: The Middle Earth-shattering news that Del Toro has quit as Hobbit director has left a hole