Art of supreme power
Yasmina Reza, author of hit play Art, pulled off a scoop with access to Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign for the French presidency - and plans to reveal all.
Hemingway and Dietrich’s 30-year unrequited love
Letters published for the first time reveal depth of affection between 'Papa' and 'the Kraut'.
No surrender!
Give up the paid job at your peril, is the controversial warning to stay-at-home mothers from one of America's star interviewers. By Suzanne Goldenberg.
Yes, Frankenstein really was written by Mary Shelley. It’s obvious – because the book is so bad
Germaine Greer: The latest sensation to galvanise the torpid lit-hist-crit establishment is the "discovery" by market research analyst John Lauritsen that Mary Shelley did not write Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (to give the novel its full title).
Fred Mustard Stewart
Obituary: American author of The Mephisto Waltz.
Speaking out in the shadow of death: why Turkish intellectuals need armed guards
Twenty journalists have been offered protection after murder of Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink. By Nicholas Birch in Istanbul.
Pope’s book accuses rich nations of robbery
· Benedict hails Marx's analysis of modern man· Publication planned for 80th birthday
In praise of … Aurelio Zen
Leader: There can be little argument that Silvio Berlusconi has been the prime mover in compelling the modern generation of British middle-class visitors to view Italy and Italians in a less romantically indulgent light than many were previously inclined to do.
‘Kiss and tell’ author risks jail term
4.30pm: Niema Ash is to risk imprisonment by publishing a new version of her 'kiss and tell' book about Canadian singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt. By Mark Sweney.
The fascist who ‘passed’ for white
Lawrence Dennis was a leading light in the American fascist movement of the 1930s. He was a fan of Hitler and a self-avowed anti-semite. Now a new book reveals that he was actually black - although even his wife didn't know. Gary Younge reports.
The lyrical Democrat
This week two poems by Barack Obama, published in a student magazine when he was 19, came to light. So did the US presidential candidate miss his true calling? Fellow poet Ian McMillan gives his expert verdict.
80 years of García Márquez: tributes mark writer’s birthday
· Nobel prize winner recalls early struggle to write· Clinton hails 'best novelist since Faulkner'
Mother courage
In 1988 Benazir Bhutto became the only head of government ever to give birth while in office. Here, the former Pakistani prime minister tells the extraordinary story of her three pregnancies, of how a new mother took on a military dictatorship - and of her painful separation from her children.