The Man with the Golden Typewriter review – Ian Fleming’s James Bond letters

Is Rushdie right about rote learning? Is Rushdie right about rote learning?

The power and glory of tides – in pictures

Lisa Hanawalt: BoJack cartoonist gets personal in Hot Dog Taste Test

WI not just about jam and Jerusalem, author tells Hay festival

Hydra Captain America wins over Stan Lee

Hydra Captain America wins over Stan Lee

Meg Rosoff condemns UK education policy as an 'assault on childhood'

Meg Rosoff condemns UK education policy as an 'assault on childhood'

Yanis Varoufakis tells Hay festival he admired Margaret Thatcher

My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers edited by Ted Kessler – review

Mike Mignola: Why I'm ending Hellboy to go paint watercolors instead

JK Rowling's alter ego Robert Galbraith shortlisted for crime novel award

Prince Philip's DNA may identify the last of the Romanovs, says Sebag Montefiore

David Mitchell buries latest manuscript for a hundred years

David Mitchell buries latest manuscript for a hundred years

Poem of the Week: Combat Gnosticism by Ian Duhig

David Means: ‘You can’t take a story and just stretch it out – that does not a novel make’

Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

The page 69 quiz – can you identify the classic book from a single paragraph?

The diary of Meg Rosoff in Sweden – in pictures

'Legendary' first edition of Alice in Wonderland set for auction at $2-3m

'Legendary' first edition of Alice in Wonderland set for auction at $2-3m

A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution by Travis Elborough – review

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World by Timothy Garton Ash – review

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 18 – The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)

The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver – digested read

CIA ex-boss: secretive spooks tolerated in UK more than in US

Hay festival: Russell T Davies defends cutting Shakespeare texts

Chilcot won't accuse Blair of lying, says former PM's biographer

Rabbits hopping mad about hutches, says naturalist Chris Packham

Siddhartha Mukherjee: ‘Genes are personal. They ask the question: why are we like this?’

Francis Spufford: ‘It’s taken me this long to be on reasonable terms with my own psyche’

The Lost Tommies by Ross Coulthart review – young martyrs to pointlessness

Northern noir finds a new detective hero in the dark heart of Yorkshire

Women and Melbourne writers dominate Miles Franklin 2016 shortlist

Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’

My Headteacher is a Vampire Rat wins Children’s Book Award 2016

Brought to book: when publishers go to court

‘17,000 islands of imagination’: discovering Indonesian literature

Rose Tremain: Truth, insomnia and waiting for inspiration in Norwich John Lewis

This year’s Wodehouse prize winners are on the money – a judge’s view

Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez review – the late-life crisis of a political cartoonist

The Long Weekend review – life in the English country house between the wars

The best new children’s books – reviews roundup

Fair play: can literary festivals pay their way?

Clive James: ‘Fixing my maple tree will cost a few bob. I’d write a poem, but it won’t make any money’

Paul McCartney by Philip Norman review – the Beatle finally gets his due

Black Dog: Dave McKean delves into the dreams of war artist Paul Nash – in pictures

Gut by Giulia Endere review – a celebration of our most under-rated organ

Flash Friday: St Monica’s

Geek critique: Neil Gaiman and Kameron Hurley pick apart pop culture

Geek critique: Neil Gaiman and Kameron Hurley pick apart pop culture

A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker review – a skilful recreation of Beckett’s war years

Comic book superheroes: the gods of modern mythology

Science or magic? UK scientists test reality of Harry Potter spells

Science or magic? UK scientists test reality of Harry Potter spells

Hanif Kureishi: even the best writers face rejection

Lifeboat: children's illustrators raise money for refugees – in pictures

Hay festival: Shakespeare experts clash over whether to cut, or not to cut

‘We longed for Peter Pan to come for us: what could be more exciting?’

The Goddess Pose by Michelle Goldberg – the strange story of how yoga became popular

Simon Cowell wants to write a children’s book? Here’s what will give it the X Factor

'Most Orwellian winner yet': The Invention of Russia takes Orwell prize

'Most Orwellian winner yet': The Invention of Russia takes Orwell prize

Food in books: macaroni cheese from Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

The Fireman by Joe Hill review – apocalyptic horror with a twist

The Morning They Came For Us by Janine di Giovanni – heroic dispatches from Syria

Captain America has gone from punching Hitler to fascist sympathies – is it time to panic?

Vadim Levental: 'A novel must be more than just the story of some made-up life'

'It needs more public-spirited pigs': TS Eliot's rejection of Orwell's Animal Farm

Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly art – in pictures

Would Enid Blyton 'delight' in new Famous Five parodies? Will we?

The EU: An Obituary by John R Gillingham – the neoliberal case against the European Union

'Refugee' is children's word of the year

Moonstone by Sjón review – a glittering fable of sex and cinema

Shakespeare's first four folios sell at auction for almost £2.5m

LaRose by Louise Erdrich review – tragedy and atonement from one of America’s great writers

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is 'dream' Kickstarter success

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is 'dream' Kickstarter success

Top 10 chases in literature

The Voices Within by Charles Fernyhough review – why do we talk to ourselves?

DC Rebirth: Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman get rebooted … again

Stephen King joins hundreds of authors petitioning against Donald Trump

Stephen King joins hundreds of authors petitioning against Donald Trump

Simon Cowell gets star advice on plan to write children's book

Simon Cowell gets star advice on plan to write children's book

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