JK Galbraith
Visionary economist who defined, and defied, the 'conventional wisdom'.
Milestone for gay rights as Indonesia gets first pink guidebook
The acceptance of a homosexual lifestyle in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore has passed a major milestone with the publication of the first gay guidebook to the three countries.
Star young author admits ‘unconscious’ plagiarism
America's hottest young author claimed new distinction in the burgeoning field of literary plagiarism by admitting to 'unconscious' copying of substantial portions of her debut novel from two other novels.
The real cowboys
Brendan O'Neill: Liberals are in no position to complain about the degradation of international law. They started it.
The failures of British philosophy
Richard Horton: Our contemporary escape from serious ideas, our flight into the arms of irony and satire, leaves us all the poorer.
We would have done the same under Nazi occupation
Max Hastings: Irène Némirovsky's feted portrait of wartime France is an antidote to British complacency about collaboration.
Boys behaving badly score their own literary genre
Publisher launches fratire - a new style of paperback written by legless lotharios.
New York Times wins Pulitzer for wiretap story
A New York Times investigation exposing how George Bush ordered domestic wiretapping without court oversight shared a Pulitzer prize for national reporting yesterday. By Suzanne Goldenberg.
Not only Beckett’s birthday
Ariel Dorfman: Samuel Beckett and Adolf Eichmann never met. But they were born a month apart in 1906.
The one that got away
Rudolf Vrba, who died last month, was a remarkable survivor of Auschwitz - one of the few people ever to escape the Nazi death camp. Yet he did so not to save his own life, but to risk it again in warning the world about the Final Solution. In an extract from his memoirs, about to be republished, he describes that daring breakout.