Books and literature
The Q&A: Pico Iyer: The importance of ambiguity
His new book considers Graham Greene, a man who understood the value of the places in between(3)
New fiction from Hari Kunzru: Dreamers and dreams
Hari Kunzru's dip into the absurd(1)
How to publish a bestseller: Of brooms and bondage
Publishers used to tell readers what was hot. Now it’s the other way round(2)
Babbage: May 2nd 2012: A pedometer for your wrist
MICROSOFT'S deal with Barnes and Noble over e-books, Kickstarter's successes and scams and Nike's FuelBand(4)
Jonathan Franzen’s non-fiction: Purposefully dreaming
On birds, lawn-mowing and autobiographical fiction(2)
New British fiction: Blue notes
Exploring knowledge and self-knowledge(0)
Books of the month: April 2012: On the ground with Occupy
OUR correspondents discuss several new books about the Occupy movement and ask whether the authors succeed in clarifying the protesters' goals and motivations(0)
North Korea's prison camps: Forgotten victims
WE DISCUSS North Korea's horrific network of gulags with Blaine Harden, author of a new book on the subject(3)
J.K. Rowling and Pottermore: The Hogwarts express
The persistent magic of the Harry Potter brand(6)
China and the London Book Fair: A loud hush
The tussle over self-censorship among Chinese authors continues(56)
The Pulitzer prize for fiction: Nobody wins
Of three able nominees, none was chosen for the award this year(4)
Babbage: April 18th 2012: Courtroom battles
An antitrust case over e-book pricing, Google and Oracle in the "world series" of intellectual-property lawsuits, and a merger between two big 3D-printing companies(8)
China and the London Book Fair: Playing it by the book
Organising a literary fair with China as the guest of honour is a risky business(96)
E-book publishing: A too-cosy world?
Readers may not be the ultimate winners in an e-book antitrust case(8)
The life of Lillian Hellman: Profile in courage
Lillian Hellman, a popular playwright and bestselling author, was a minor player in American intellectual circles. So why is she still such a divisive figure?(20)
The Q&A: Krys Lee, writer: All the lonely people
Identity, loneliness and survival pervade Krys Lee's short-story collection "Drifting House"(1)
New fiction: Peter Carey's "The Chemistry of Tears": A terrific prose artist
OUR correspondents discuss the novelist's new book, the evolution of his style and his chances of winning the Man Booker Prize for a third time(2)
Football and murder in Mexico: Direct shot
A review of a book on football and violence in Ciudad Juárez(1)
A roundup of the week's Americas stories(2)
Daron Acemoglu on "Why Nations Fail": Institutional wisdom
FROM mercantile Venice to contemporary America, economic success or failure is rooted in the health of political institutions says the co-author of a new book(5)
Baseball and fiction: Private pain in a public sport
An interview with the author of "The Art of Fielding"(1)
Nomads and their networks: Not wanderers
AN exhibition at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, in New York, tells the story of Central Asian nomads, their seasonal rituals and foreign networks, through the objects they crafted and exchanged(1)
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