Reprieve for Hemingway’s six-toed cats
Animals living at writer's former home avoid eviction after a legal battle.
Iraq: the debate, the rebellion and the march to war
Alastair Campbell reveals the intense discussions taking place around the cabinet table on the eve of the invasion.
Lloyd Alexander
Obituary: Children's writer who linked mythology with modern themes.
Girl wonders
As Nancy Drew returns to the screen, Laura Barton remembers the fictional female heroes who bested the boys, bucked convention and shaped her childhood.
Kill and tell: victim’s family win right to publish OJ’s version of a night of murder
· Court rules controversial book can be published
· Goldman family, not former actor, to benefit
More honest than the facts
Kamila Shamsie: Growing up under a censoring dictatorship taught me how fiction can be a place of truth.
Were these the Two Gentlemen of Madrid?
A new film suggests Shakespeare and Cervantes met in Spain and gave each other literary help.
Film to lay bare Greer’s hippy days
But The Female Eunuch author is unimpressed with former Oz editor Richard Neville's memoirs of the era of flower power, free love and drug-fuelled parties.
France’s tough cops wield a new weapon: culture
They are accused of being violent, corrupt, racist. Now the police are answering back with a wave of novels, memoirs and music that challenges the stereotypes.
Japan goes wild about Harry
Fans find the boy wizard has grown up at world premiere of fifth film.
Blood ties: Yakuza daughter lifts lid on hidden hell of gangsters’ families
Unexpected bestseller reveals Tokyo underworld of drugs, abuse and tattoos.
Honourable behaviour or sowing the seeds of discord?
Letters: We strongly deplore the recent conferring of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie (Letters, June 21). We see this as a deliberate provocation and insult to the 1.5 billion Muslims around the world.
Christopher Hitchens: God’s gift to books
Alan Coren's agent used to say the holy trinity of book sales was 'golf, cats and Nazis'. Well, he was right about the 'holy' part, anyway. The new hot topic is God.