A treat for rightwing tots

Oliver Burkeman: Anyone who believes, with Whitney Houston, that children are our future, will probably want to pay close attention to a children's book that's outselling almost all others in the US. Help, Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! by Katherine Debrecht is proof that there is no front on which the American culture wars cannot be fought.

M Scott Peck

Obituary: Pop psychiatrist who ignored his bestselling advice on adultery.

August Wilson

Obituary: Distinguished black American playwright who reclaimed the stories of his people.

A tale of two cities

Lowlife, cafe life, all the messy reality of urban life ... when we imagine fin-de-siècle Paris and London, we think of the intimate scenes painted by Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec. Iain Sinclair on an extraordinary era of cross-Channel creativity.

The coup that wasn’t

Scott Ritter was the former US marine captain tasked with finding Saddam Hussein's weapons. Now, in this first detailed account, he reveals how the CIA plotted to use a UN weapons inspection to overthrow the Iraqi regime - and how fiasco turned to tragedy when it failed.

Gustaf Sobin

Obituary: The American writer Gustaf Sobin, who has died aged 69, came to public attention with his third novel, The Fly-Truffler (1999).

Freudians slip in battle to shape French minds

Psychological warfare has broken out over a book that calls on the French people to stop blaming their parents. The Livre Noir de la Psychanalyse (The Black Book of Psychoanalysis) claims French mind-healers have become ‘fossilised’ in the ‘marginal, discredited’ … Continue reading →

For the busy faithful, the greatest story ever told – in 100 minutes

They may be the words of the Lord. But there are simply too many of them for the modern attention span. That was the reasoning behind the launch yesterday of a more "user-friendly" edition of the great work. The 100-minute Bible is a 57-page pocket-sized edition, the latest in the long and often turbulent legacy of the Holy Book.