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John Scalzi: the internet's troll-slayer 27 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Erin McCann checks in with the sci-fi author who has become internet royalty by using his online powers for good Erin McCann
Snatched by Richard Parker - review 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
'The descriptions were so realistic it was like I was there with the three children' Snatched is a really creepy story! They don't know it, but Simon and his sister, Ruti, are being watched. The peop...
Acclaimed anti-war manga earns reprieve in Japan 27 Aug 2013 | 06:59 pm
Restriction on the availability to children of Hadashi No Gen (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa's anti-war classic, has been reversed after protests Manga series Hadashi No Gen (Barefoot Gen) will be fr...
Elmore Leonard's son may finish the late crime writer's final novel 27 Aug 2013 | 06:32 pm
Crime author Peter Leonard game to take on book about Stetson-wearing US marshal Raylan Givens Peter Leonard, son of master crime writer Elmore Leonard, who died last week, may complete his father's ...
Stephenie McMillan 27 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
Set decorator who worked on all the Harry Potter films and won an Oscar for The English Patient Although she won an Oscar for The English Patient (1996), the set decorator Stephenie McMillan, who has...
Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead - extract 27 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
Try the first chapter of Rebecca Stead's Guardian children's fiction prize longlisted novel, Liar and Spy
In praise of Juan Rulfo 27 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Rulfo is one of the greatest Latin American writers. His spare, startling short fiction, set in tumultous post-revolutionary Mexico, possesses an elemental, universal quality At the turn of the mille...
Teju Cole's dictionary of received wisdom – what would you add? | Open thread 27 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
The writer's canny definitions have struck a chord with many. What would you contribute to his glossary of modern discourse? When Nigerian American novelist Teju Cole took to Twitter to come up with ...
Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything by Umberto Eco 27 Aug 2013 | 04:23 pm
In his latest collection, Eco is as comfortable in the middle ages as writing about WikiLeaks There's a moment here when Umberto Eco, introducing his essay "The Beauty of the Flame", says he is at th...
Sadly, too many journalists seeking academic credibility can't write 27 Aug 2013 | 02:45 pm
Over the last couple of weeks I have run extracts from the second edition of the book about local journalism What do we mean by local?* Now one of its co-editors, John Mair, offers his thoughts on the...