It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
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literatureA journey through popular and ancient literature, from all corners of the globe.
Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko: Maxim Gorki reads his fairy tale "A girl and death" to Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov on 11.11.1931 (painted in 1949)
Socialist realism, the old Soviet literary canon, has come to dominate the literary scene once more, laments the distinguished literary critic, Olga Martynova
The German-Romanian recipient of the Nobel literature prize eludes readers, media - and translators
A Russian poet’s eye on returning to Londongrad, where imperial decline is woven into everyday life
17 years ago Susan Richards embarked on her journey deep into provincial Russia. What she finds is often surprising, sometimes hilarious, sometimes depressing, but her friendships enable her to see much more than foreigners ordinarily would, says Masha Karp
"You have a gun. I have a pen." A renowned Tibetan poet smells the air of her submerged land
"It could all go away." A dramatist formed by sudden fall speaks anew to a post-crash era
The writer and Saqi publisher died on 17 February 2007. Her last article - on Beirut - is here. Plus: memory trio, and life journey
The death of a writer whose generous yet exacting eye mapped an era is a profound loss
The American writer's early diaries map a burning passion for life, ideas and the desired other
"Everything ends in one minute." Palestine's national poet is dead, his words survive and burn (archive)
The prophetic message of Alexander Solzhenitsyn transcends the circumstances that gave rise to it
Plus: Memorial's tribute, Evgeny Morozov's cyber-war, and the Harvard address
The true project of the great Russian writer was spiritual rather than political
A lively London market offers a fresh view of the old story of England as a "heritage in danger"
A passionate, lyrical voice that embraced négritude, Marxism and surrealism is stilled
The shift from polymath to expert has diminished, but not withered, the garden of knowledge
France's pioneering feminist still shines on her centenary (archive)
A great English artist born 250 years ago fused empathy,
anger and love
Pippi
Longstocking's creator wrote for children and fought for justice
The Nobel laureate is a seeker and educator in
mysticism as well as a great novelist
The words of the fearless journalist murdered a year ago still burn (archive)
In an old civilisation's millennium, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's voice will be heard (archive)
The author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses deserves his knighthood
Kurt Vonnegut worked through despair to infect a generation of Americans with humanity, says Christopher Bigsby.
Teza the singer is in solitary confinement. A political prisoner of the Burmese junta, his world is now his cage. Read an excerpt from Karen Connelly's powerful novel of humanity, shame and survival.
"Misunderstanding. Free world. Dilemma." A foreigner's first time in London, the dictionary holds all the answers. Read an extract from Xiaolu Guo's first novel written directly in English– a study of language lost and found.
The first of two short-story selections from a new anthology on literature from the "axis of evil". The tale of a dictatorial Iranian school teacher is a sweeping satire of censorship and free speech.
The second of two short-story selections from a new anthology on literature from the "axis of evil". The bittersweet tale of two Korean brothers living in Japan after the Korean war.
Zora Neale Hurston's tale of oppression, morality and sexual power in the rural American south of the 1920s.
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