Gay superheroes soar into comic book battle
Marvel plans same-sex marriage while DC comics says established character is to come outComic book crime-fighters the X-Men are taking a break from saving the day in order to attend the first same-sex marriage in the superhero world, set for June.Publi...
Heist of the century: university corruption and the financial crisis
Why was the response from US academic experts to the global financial crisis so muted? In the second extract from his book Inside Job, Charles Ferguson argues that corruption in universities is deeply entrenchedMany people who saw my documentary Inside...
Heist of the century: Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis
Wall Street bankers could have averted the global financial crisis, so why didn't they? In this exclusive extract from his book Inside Job, Charles Ferguson argues that they should be prosecutedBernard L Madoff ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, ...
Promised land
This week, on a visit to the UK, Marilynne Robinson came along to the Guardian Review Book Club to talk to Professor John Mullan about her novel Gilead. Set in rural Iowa, it is the letter of aging congregationalist minister John Ames to hisyoung son f...
Texas’s war on history | Katherine Stewart
Christian-nationalist zealots are trying to rewrite US history, airbrush slavery and enshrine creationism in Texas schoolsDon McLeroy, chairman of the Texas State Board of Education from 2007 to 2009, is a "young earth" creationist. He believes the ear...
Donna Summer dies of cancer at 63
Winner of five Grammy awards, disco queen had a string of hits in the 1970s, including Love to Love You BabyDonna Summer, a singular vocal stylist whose string of disco hits spawned five Grammy awards and a following that has long outlived the genre, h...
Apple and publishers fail to halt ebook lawsuit
Lawsuit accuses Apple and publishers of colluding to break up Amazon.com's low-cost dominanceApple and five major book publishers have failed to persuade a US judge to throw out a lawsuit by consumers accusing them of conspiring to raise electronic boo...
Time to Start Thinking by Edward Luce
A compelling study shows why American politicians are in denial about their nation's declineAccording to the US industrialist and world-class bigot Henry Ford, "History is bunk". Edward Luce, who cites Ford's assertion, tells the reader that Oliver Wen...
Fifty Shades of Grey banned from Florida libraries
Bestselling erotic novel removed from shelves in Brevard County as other US libraries make the most of title's popularityIt's the fastest selling book of the year in the UK but British author EL James's erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey is just too por...
Maurice Sendak’s dark visions delighted generations of children
The author who won fame with the brilliant but unsettling Where the Wild Things Are refused to patronise his young readersMaurice Sendak didn't like being referred to as a children's book illustrator, believing the term was disrespectful of his talents...
Texas’s war on history | Katherine Stewart