Every data journalism book since 1970: interactive timeline
Dutch investigative reporter Henk van Ess has created this guide to data journalism in books, from 1970 to 2012. It shows how the field has changed, from 'precision reporting' to 'computer assisted reporting' to 'data journalism'. Oh and it includes ou...
Reader reviews roundup
Opinions is divided, but this week Can Themba and Charles Dickens join Suzanne Collins on the ever-growing to-read pileOpinionsLtd is in two minds about Penguin's collected Can Themba, Requiem for Sophiatown with "roughly half" of the stories falling f...
Why Norwich should wear its Unesco literary badge with pride
My home town has just joined the ranks of Edinburgh, Iowa City, Reykjavik, Dublin and Melbourne as a Unesco city of literature. So why Norwich?Thursday's announcement that Norwich has been named a Unesco city of literature provoked jubilation around th...
Who’s helping who in the cover blurb game?
Few books now appear without enthusiastic recommendations from other authors, but does anyone really believe them?How many books can one man recommend? I sometimes feel that my name is on the cover of more books than I've actually written myself, which...
Rediscovering Elizabeth Taylor – the brilliant novelist
Few have heard of the National Velvet star's namesake, but she was one of the best English novelists of the 20th century"No one bought her books, and only the middle aged or elderly had ever read them: she did not know she was now a legend of which the...
Locating the books with the strongest sense of place
The Ondaatje prize shortlist includes novels from Rahul Bhattacharya and Teju Cole, but which are your favourite books which evoke 'the spirit of a place'?The shortlist for perhaps my favourite of the literary awards has just been announced: the Ondaat...
The week that Maurice Sendak died and Jaggergate broke
It was the week that Maurice Sendak died and Bianca Jagger had a fight at the opera. Here are the past seven days' biggest arts stories from around the webEach Thursday, I round up the biggest arts news of the week, recommend some longer reads and have...
My trials by jury service
I wanted jury service to be profound – Clarence Darrow is a hero – but the only revelation I can testify to was about Groucho MarxWhen I was in high school, my two heroes, and role models, were Bugs Bunny and the lawyer Clarence Darrow. They may se...
The Marlowe Papers: playing poetically with the playwright’s murder
Literary dialogue comes in many forms – webs of allusion, reference and literary homage. And Ros Barber's new novel The Marlowe Papers takes this conversation to another levelOne of the secret pleasures of reading is watching books and writers talk t...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Guidebook Adaptations …
... But Were Afraid to Ask. Pregnancy guide What to Expect When You're Expecting is the latest self-help book to be turned into a film. Which manuals would you tout around Tinseltown?No Hollywood genre has been quite as strange as the loose ensemble co...
Eurozone crisis live: Greece likely to hold new elections after second attempt to form government fails
• Leftist leader Tsipras announces failure of coalition talks • €1bn held back from planned bailout tranche for Thursday• Spanish banks said to need €35bn extra provisions8.00am: Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the eurozo...
Game of Thrones – video game preview