Death becomes her

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

Neil Postman

Obituary: Sceptical American critic of the internet, television and the information age.

Too much of a good thing

Matthew Fort finds that in collecting his articles on the trials of the home cook, The Pedant in the Kitchen, Julian Barnes has lost some of the flavour

Leading us up the wrong track

For his new play, David Hare researched the privatisation of the railways and could find no one in support of it - not even Margaret Thatcher So why, he asks, does our current government pursue policies that are so obviously both out of step with the desires of the electorate and contrary to expert advice?

Land of soap and Tories

According to a new German book, the trouble with Britain is that it cannot build a strong relationship with Europe - or proper showers. Luke Harding reports.

NYT writer ‘should be stripped of Pulitzer’

The New York Times has been told that the Pulitzer prize awarded to one of its correspondents in the Soviet Union 70 years ago should be rescinded because the journalist was not critical enough of Stalinism, reports Duncan Campbell.

I was 14 when I was gang raped

In October 1985, I attended a pop concert against my parents' wishes. By the end of the night I had been gang raped in circumstances similar to those alleged by the 17-year-old girl accusing several men, including Premiership footballers, of raping her at the Grosvenor House hotel. By Emilia di Girolamo.