Natural selection
Women are Britain's great biographers.
How the old man bridged the sea
Hemingway deal erodes US embargo on Cuba.
Death threat hid gay truth about patriot
IRA told academic not to reveal Roger Casement's homosexual habits, writes Henry McDonald.
Tale of terror in Brighton scoops French prize
French writer's story based on memories of cruelty and torment in seaside asylum.
Literary prize winner boggles France’s best minds
The winner of France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt, would normally expect to sell some 500,000 copies and become a household name overnight. Pascal Quignard, critics say, will be lucky to shift a tenth as many.
Siegfried Unseld
Guardian of postwar Germany's literary inheritance.
Rohinton Mistry wins Kiriyama award
Rohinton Mistry's Booker-shortlisted novel Family Matters has won this year's Kiriyama Pacific Rim prize.
Gore Vidal claims ‘Bush junta’ complicit in 9/11
America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched his most scathing attack on President Bush, calling for an investigation into whether the US administration deliberately allowed the terrorist attacks to happen.
Chief rabbi accused of heresy over book
Chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, accused of heresy by one of the most senior leaders of the Jewish community.
Fresh attacks on chief rabbi’s book
Sacks fails in moves to mollify orthodox leaders.
Stephen Ambrose
Bestselling historian of America's second world war triumphs has died aged 66.
Bare shelves mar return of Egypt’s glory
A scholarly row has blighted the reopening of Alexandria's great library.