Trial of Turkish author adjourned
The trial of Turkey's best-selling novelist, Orhan Pamuk, was today adjourned almost as soon as it opened.
‘Terrorised’ writers lament state’s assault on free speech
Trial of Turkey's greatest living author is focusing attention on attempts to control public opinion.
Benjamin DeMott
American cultural commentator with everyone's icons in his firing line.
Leave the lion alone
Zoe Williams: The hollow criticism of the Narnia books' biblical subtext smacks of mindless offence-seeking.
Passionate Pinter’s devastating assault on US foreign policy
Shades of Beckett as ailing playwright delivers powerful Nobel lecture.
Stan Berenstain
Obituary: The American writer and illustrator, and co-creator of the Berenstain Bear children's books has died aged 82.
Pinter demands war crimes trial for Blair
The Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter has called for Tony Blair to be tried for war crimes, in his acceptance speech to the Nobel committee. The 5,000-word speech excoriates the US government over Guantánamo Bay and its attempts to destabilise … Continue reading
Veiled ode to George Bush deleted from Pakistani textbooks
A poem has been removed from school textbooks in Pakistan after it became clear that the first letter of each line spelt out 'President George W Bush'.
Storm rages over bestselling book on monster Mao
China experts attack biography's 'misleading' sources.
Dario Fo: ‘Tony Blair has nothing to do with the left’
Dario Fo, playwright, Nobel laureate and - at 79 - still the most subversive man in Italy, is running for mayor of Milan. But why? And what will he do if he wins? Well, for a start, he’ll sort out the traffic, he tells John Hooper.
The ideas interview: Jacqueline Rose
Psychoanalysis can help explain why Israel acts as it does, and how it can change. By John Sutherland.
In praise of… the A38
Leader: Many writers have attempted to chart the lives of people; far fewer, though a growing number, prefer to write the biographies of roads.
Fares face long wait as cabbie gets paid to read
A Madrid taxi driver has won a competition to be paid to read Miguel de Cervantes' literary masterpiece, Don Quixote. Taxi driver Javier Carretero successfully applied for a grant of €642 (£438) to take time off from driving his Skoda Octavia in order to read Spain's classic text.