OJ ‘confession’: now US turns on Murdoch
News that Murdoch organisations have scooped a book and TV deal based on the OJ Simpson case has prompted a US-wide wave of revulsion.
Flap over a tale of gay penguins
A love story about gay penguins causes controversy in a number of small towns in the American heartland.
Why Vietnam’s best-known author has stayed silent
Fifteen years after Bao Ninh's admired war novel, he explains his fears about publishing a sequel.
US winner of French literary prizes explains brutal inspiration
Jonathan Littell, the American author who has become famous in France after winning the Prix Goncourt and an Académie Française prize, used his experiences dealing with murderers and torturers in war zones to create his fictional anti-hero.
Bestsellers banned in new Iranian censorship purge
· Publishing industry in crisis as books blacklisted
· Minister ends relaxed attitude to western culture
OJ Simpson reveals how he would have killed his wife
More than 12 years after the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goodman, OJ Simpson will revive memories of the case with a controversial TV appearance. By Dan Glaister in Los Angeles.
Conquistadors’ women pardoned in paperback
Two of Latin America's female literary giants, Laura Esquivel and Isabel Allende, have come to the rescue of La Malinche and Inés Suárez, both long reviled as collaborators in bloody Spanish conquests of the new world, by writing novels casting them as misunderstood heroines who could be role models for today's women.
Custom outlets – US publishing’s new holy grail
· Bookshops out of favour in the bid for bigger sales · Racetracks and hardware stores outstrip websites
Gordimer’s sorrow for men who robbed her
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer sees the men who attacked her in her home as symbolic of the challenges facing South Africa.