Tintinophiles will demand fidelity to Hergé’s art
The big worry for fans of Tintin is how characters will be translated to screen
Why women really should rule
Dee Dee Myers, who was the White House's first female press secretary, tells Sharon Krum why women's natural talents need to be used to transform politics
Shusha Guppy
Obituary: Iranian singer, writer and composer who moved freely among intellectual circles
Island made famous by Dumas to open for 3,000 visitors
Montecristo, one of the world's most fabled spots, is to be opened to the public for the first time in decades
Godless evangelicals
John Gray: The irony is that, in its fanaticism and intolerance, atheism's militant tendency apes the worst aspects of religious fundamentalism
Should a mantis pray or prey?
Francesca Segal finds that insects take a leading role in Nell Leyshon's moving tale of a family falling apart, Devotion
The first time I was called a self-hating Jew
In 1960s America his parents were civil rights activists who encouraged their children to speak their minds. Until, aged 14, Mike Marqusee criticised Israel. In this extract from his new book, he recalls his father's fury
She was a girl from small-town America with dreams of being a poet or a dancer. So how, at just 23, did Rachel Corrie become a Palestinian martyr?
Five years on, her diaries are being released
The true cost of war
In 2005, a Nobel prize-winning economist began the painstaking process of calculating the true cost of the Iraq war. In his new book, he reveals how short-sighted budget decisions, cover-ups and a war fought in bad faith will affect us all for decades to come. Aida Edemariam meets Joseph Stiglitz
William F Buckley Jr dies at 82
William Buckley, the US conservative columnist once described as "the scourge of liberalism", has died at the age of 82
In praise of … Svalbard
Leader: Preservation seed bank opens in Svalvard, Norway, the most northerly inhabitated place on the planet
Inside the fiction factory
Oliver Burkeman meets James Patterson, perhaps the world's most successful writer
India tells Bangladeshi writer to stay hidden or leave
Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who is accused of insulting Islam, permitted to stay in India only if she remains in a secret location unable to receive visitors or step outside her door
Crossing the line
Sudhir Venkatesh tells Stephen Phelan how, in a decade of hanging out with the Black Kings, he led the gang for a day and helped them deal out violent ‘justice’
Ginsberg first recording found after 50 years
First recording of Ginsberg reading the poem Howl has been discovered