Oh for goodness sake, Fay, do put a sock in it
Barbara Ellen: Fay Weldon's call for women to stop nagging men about picking up their socks is an example of yet another feminist going soft in later life
The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Dust to dust for the ghosts of Route 66
Chris McGreal continues his series following John Steinbeck's fictional journey, and finds life has bypassed the road's nearly deserted towns
Ducking Weldon’s verbal grenades
Libby Brooks: Giving attention to Fay Weldon's mischievous remarks about women detracts from the real conversation we need to have about feminism
John Lewis to sell updated version of wartime home tips pamphlet
Department store producing booklet to reflect the needs of the 21st century
From dust to bust, America’s poor take on a new type of monster
Chris McGreal follows in the path of the Joads, John Steinbeck's fictional family in The Grapes of Wrath who fled to California amid the Great Depression
Same road, same grim story, same sense of optimism
Chris McGreal begins his recreation of John Steinbeck's fictional journey along Route 66 to see how, and whether, life has changed for modern-day Americans
Sorry Sebastian Faulks, you just don’t understand the Qur’an
The author claims the holy book of Islam is 'one-dimensional'
Parisians castigate ‘ignorant’ plans for Hôtel Lambert
Mansion in which Chopin composed, George Sand wrote and Voltaire lived with mistress, facing 'disaster'
Gender has no place on the sporting agenda
Carole Cadwalladr: Sport is one area of modern life where women's appearance isn't supposed to matter
Where is the good popular fiction for black men?
Aaron Akinyemi: Way too much shelf space is given over to the tawdry clichés of gun-toting 'ghetto lit'
Frida Kahlo scholars say discovery of ‘astonishing lost archive’ is a fake
Calls for Mexico to step in over new book cataloguing unknown collection of works and letters claimed to be by the artist
Google’s book project faces growing opposition
Publishing venture is prompting concern from authors and legal experts who object to its copyright implications
Edward Wilson’s handwritten account of the 1911 Antarctic journey up for sale
Story reveals explorers' polar trek through 67 miles of silence, darkness and cold - for three eggs
Julie & Julia causes stir as fans grab chef’s recipe books
Popularity surrounding latest Meryl Streep movie leads to run on US bookstores
Hollywood searches for escapism after the apocalypse
A slew of new US movies concern themselves with life on a post-apocalyptic Earth. By Paul Harris