Corfu pays belated tribute to Durrells
· Commemorative park to honour British brothers
· Authors put island on the tourist map
Judge throws out charges against Turkish novelist
Turkey's best-known woman novelist was acquitted yesterday of 'insulting Turkishness' in the latest case to draw attention to the limitations of freedom of speech in Turkey.
Police out in force as Turkish writer is acquitted
Nicholas Birch reports from the trial of Turkish novelist Elif Shafak in Istanbul.
India’s literary elite call for anti-gay law to be scrapped
In an open letter, more than 100 influential signatories, including the Booker prizewinner Arundhati Roy, and author Vikram Seth, said the law had been used to "systematically persecute, blackmail, arrest and terrorise sexual minorities".
How a call girl from Brazil went global
A former prostitute's novel of life in a brothel is being filmed as other sex workers rush into print.
Cliches and capital letters
Laila Lalami: Martin Amis has a simplistic and ill-informed view of the world, and of Islam in particular.
In praise of … Joachim Fest
Leader: Twentieth-century German history is a minefield, and few have negotiated it deftly enough to make a lasting difference to our understanding of Hitler and the Third Reich.
The Hammett of Havana
His award-winning crime novels feature transvestites, crooked officials and moralising newsreaders. For some critics, it's too dark a picture of Cuba. But, Leonardo Padura tells Duncan Campbell, his work reflects the reality of his country.