Look back with a touch of traditionalist despair
Shaun de Waal: The Booker Prize's romance with Commonwealth writers apparently continues with the shortlisting, for this year's award, of South African Damon Galgut, for his novel The Good Doctor.
Murdoch baiter tops bestsellers
A book cataloguing the right-wing bias in broadcasts by Rupert Murdoch's US cable television news network, Fox News, has topped the American bestseller lists.
Look back in hunger
Exclusive: extracts from Nigel Slater's extraordinary autobiography.
Who slew the angel?
Michael Collins combines fine writing with strong storytelling in his police procedural, Lost Souls. Perhaps it takes an outsider to make sense of America's Midwest, says Jay Rayner
Our life and character have been poisoned
Arne Ruth, one of his country's most respected writers and journalists, looks at the damage Lindh's death causes to Sweden's role in Europe.
It’s Brick Lane by any other name
Nervous US publishers nearly retitled Booker-listed novel as 'Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers'.
‘She was so full of life, spirits, energy’
Celebrated thriller writer Henning Mankell, who was born in Stockholm in 1948, gives his reaction to the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
‘I became the profane pervert Arab blogger’
It began as an internet joke with a friend. But then the media - including the Guardian - picked it up, and suddenly he was the Baghdad blogger, the most famous web diarist in the world. Salam Pax describes what it was like to play cat-and-mouse with Saddam's censors.
Counterculture landmark: the beat goes on
City Lights bookshop, a San Francisco institution, notches up 50 years as the spiritual home of writers such as Ginsberg and Kerouac.
Madonna brings Faroe Islanders to book
Rock star's first stab at children's literature is guaranteed a sell-out as 1,000 copies in Faroese are shipped into Atlantic islands.
Marriage is made in hell
American writer Laura Kipnis has provoked a storm in the US with a new book attacking marriage. Here, she explains why monogamy turns nice people into petty dictators and household tyrants.
Exhumation may let a poet’s bones speak
Is a pit near Granada the resting place of the writer Federico Garcia Lorca and other Franco victims? Tests should soon give an answer.
From ‘Scud Stud’ to next Dimbleby
Major rebranding aims at making Rageh Omaar the new face of the BBC through high-profile broadcasts, lectures and books
Children’s author faces Jewish wrath
Tale of boy's life in West Bank prompts pressure groups to call for withdrawal.
Children of the Dream
Ben Okri celebrates the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech with a new poem.