Bible tales are retold for the secular age
Authors reimagine the nativity story for children to read and enjoy
The other Nobel prize winners
Barack Obama picked up his Nobel peace prize in Oslo today, but less high-profile recipients have also been rewarded
Katine writer Ben Jones wins book prize
Ben Jones' book, Beyond the state in rural Uganda, picks up the Elliott P Skinner award from the American Anthropological Association
Love’s bite is deeper, Tiger
Agnès Poirier: Without risk there can be no passion. Philosophers know that, beyond golf, romance is under threat
Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly wins Guardian First Book Award 2009
Trade lawyer impresses critics and readers alike with 'disarmingly funny' short stories of Zimbabwe
Books of the decade: Your best books of 2004
Michelle Pauli: In a strong year for fiction, Cloud Atlas's dazzling Russian doll of a novel did not win over the Booker jury, but takes my vote. What were your favourites?
French university brings manuscripts of Stendhal into the 21st century
Website uses cutting-edge technology to place author's barely legible manuscripts next to scrupulous modern-day transcripts
Nelson Mandela’s ‘bogus’ endorsement of African leader was real – but old
Foundation forced into embarrassing climbdown over book that used Nelson Mandela's speech in foreword
Nicolas Sarkozy provokes French left by honouring Albert Camus
Intellectuals accuse president of point-scoring after he proposes to move writer's remains to the Panthéon
Friedrich von Schiller: the Romantic lover
Film and biographies mark 250th anniversary of one of Germany's most distinguished poets and philosophers
The Ayn Rand revival
Jennifer Abel: With the US government bailing out rich idiots, it's no wonder the sex-addled critic of socialism is more popular than ever
Stephenie Meyer – a squeaky-clean vampire queen
Profile: New Moon's chaste tale of the undead will fill the world's cinemas with teenage girls this week, yet the woman behind a publishing phenomenon to rival JK Rowling and Dan Brown has never even seen an R-rated movie
McCain aides kept me bottled up, says Sarah Palin in new book
Republican vice-presidential candidate claims in Going Rogue that she was kept away from reporters against her wishes