Author rejects prize from ‘anti-migrant’ newspaper

Hari Kunzru, one of Britain's most promising young novelists, put two fingers up to the Daily Mail and its Sunday sister by refusing to accept a literary prize they sponsor, write Fiachra Gibbons and Claire Armitstead.

While we have your attention, Mr President…

It's not often that we get the chance to speak directly to the most powerful man in the world. So as George Bush lands in Britain for his first state visit, we asked 60 Brits and Americans to make the most of it.

The survivor

Asiye Guzel was tortured and gang-raped by police in a Turkish prison, all for her political beliefs. She talks to Libby Brooks.

‘I feel guilty to be alive’

The Iraq conflict was John Simpson's 34th war and, thanks to the American bomb that killed his translator, it was nearly his last. He's still angry about it, he tells Libby Brooks, but that won't keep him from the next warzone.

Georgi Vladimov

Dissident Ukrainian writer hailed as new hope of Russian literature.

Self-portrait of a teenage killer

At 17 Emma Humphreys was jailed for murdering her boyfriend and pimp Trevor Armitage. At 27, her conviction was quashed, leading to a change in law. Now her astonishing secret diaries have been found.

Death becomes her

Laura Barton: Sylvia Plath is a raw wound for many women - one they keep on scratching.