Bridging the cultural divide
Nicky Harman: We need to bring more of China's literature to a British readership, but publishers need to understand Chinese fiction better
Les adultes terribles
Agnès Poirier: Michel Houellebecq and Bernard Henry-Lévy have teamed up to produce a book. Is it as bad as their films?
The naked truth
Manet's favourite model, Victorine Meurent, has often been dismissed as a drunk and a prostitute. But as V R Main discovers, she was actually an ambitious artist
A prize misjudgment
John Sutherland: The greatest American writers are concerned with the human condition – and that transcends borders
Poetic licence: dead writer gets TV demand
Friedrich Schiller receives notice from licence-collecting agency threatening legal proceedings
Walking on eggshells
Kenan Malik: Inayat Bunglawala is wrong; a culture of self-censorship is the real legacy of the reaction to The Satanic Verses
Philip Glass takes on Walt Disney
Laura Barnett: Composer Philip Glass is to write an opera about the life of Walt Disney based on the novel The Perfect American by Peter Stephan Jungk
The love story that provoked a firebomb attack
Homa Khaleeli: Author Sherry Jones insists The Jewel of Medina is respectful towards Islam. So why do fictional accounts of the prophet provoke such fury?
Respect for religion now makes censorship the norm
Jo Glanville: When publishers are too intimidated to print even novels that may offend, it shows how far we've lost our way on free speech
Did Bridget Jones destroy family life?
The question: Women's academic excellence isn't to blame any more than Bridget Jones is. The true problem is that equality is still a long way off
Three arrested after fire at publisher of Muhammad novel
Men seized by armed anti-terrorist officers outside Islington home following reported explosion
Next Clooney film is low on glitz – but it has goats
British author's book on CIA psychic experiments will be brought to the screen by star-studded cast
Firebomb attack on book publisher
Firm had bought rights to a controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride
The year of the novice
Mark Lawson: Seasoned politicians both sides of the Atlantic are running on experience - a very risky strategy
‘Fashion should be funny’
Simon Doonan is the most famous window-dresser in the world. With his fairytale life about to be celebrated in a new TV series, he talks to Laura Barton