Slater’s raw honesty has a delicious flavour
Matthew Fort celebrates the courage and honesty displayed in Nigel Slater's memoir, Toast
Eleven years in the Bronx
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc went to write about a ghetto family - and ended up staying there. Geraldine Bedell hears her frank story of pain, poverty and fun.
The fast show
Berlin is abuzz with a scene that mixes music with fashion, art and - in some cases - porn. Maddy Costa spends a day in the company of its leading lights, Chicks on Speed.
‘I feel used’
Bjorn Andresen - the beautiful Tadzio from Death in Venice, tells Matt Seaton why he is furious about being on the cover of Germaine Greer's new book.
Shaking spears
After three years of direct exposure to George Bush's speechifying, plans to take Shakespeare to the troops may represent a welcome change of pace for the US military.
Teenager’s fantasy dragon burns up the bestseller list
Eragon, which began as 15-year-old Christopher Paolini's attempt to entertain himself, is now out-selling all but the most recent of the Harry Potter adventures
Doubts tearing France apart
An orgy of breast-beating in print claims the French 'piss off the planet', Paul Webster reports from Paris.
Novelist Dirty Pierre comes clean: I was a conman
Man Booker favourite admits years of deceit.
Ministers round on Cook over diaries serialisation
The former foreign secretary, Robin Cook, was facing attacks over claims in his diaries that Tony Blair knew Saddam Hussein had no viable weapons of mass destruction.
Row over naming of rape author
Fury after German war diary writer's identity is revealed.
Nobel prize for JM Coetzee – secretive author who made the outsider his art form
World acclaim for exiled South African novelist unread at home.
‘That is not where I come from’
In Coetzee's most recent book, Elizabeth Costello, the eponymous Australian author is awarded a big literary prize in the US. In this extract, her son accompanies her home after the award.