Required reading

Brian Whitaker: A new initiative in the Middle East aims to translate 100 books into Arabic in its first year. Which titles do you think should be included?

Siobhan Dowd

Obituary: Author and human rights campaigner who defended jailed writers.

Lost landscapes

Palestinian lawyer Rajah Shehadeh finds solace in the hills of the West Bank, but his memoirs lament the losses caused as Israeli settlements encroach, writes Ian Black.

Novelist in infanticide row

Mazarine Pingeot's fifth novel, about a woman who murders her baby and hides the corpse in a freezer, has sparked a row in France after the family in a real-life infanticide case accused her of exploitation.

The day reality hit home

The writer Andrew Anthony was a committed member of the liberal left - until the attacks of 11 September, 2001. A veteran of CND and Nicaraguan solidarity campaigns, he was astonished at the liberal left's anti-American reaction. And so he began to question other basic assumptions about race, crime and terror - a political journey he charts here, in these exclusive extracts from his compelling new book.

The day reality hit home, part 2

The writer Andrew Anthony was a committed member of the liberal left - until the attacks of 11 September, 2001. A veteran of CND and Nicaraguan solidarity campaigns, he was astonished at the liberal left's anti-American reaction. And so he began to question other basic assumptions about race, crime and terror - a political journey he charts here, in these exclusive extracts from his compelling new book.

The day reality hit home, part 3

The writer Andrew Anthony was a committed member of the liberal left - until the attacks of 11 September, 2001. A veteran of CND and Nicaraguan solidarity campaigns, he was astonished at the liberal left's anti-American reaction. And so he began to question other basic assumptions about race, crime and terror - a political journey he charts here, in these exclusive extracts from his compelling new book.