We have to stop state legislators from sneaking creationist and revisionist textbooks into public schoolsLouisiana's legislators are continuing their of the state's public school science classrooms. On 1 May, legislators killed a bill to repeal Louisiana's creationism law, the misnamed Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA).The law allows non-science to be snuck into science classrooms by...

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His best-selling novels illuminate the shadowy organisations that supposedly run the world. But Dan Brown was “honoured” to receive an invitation to join the Freemasons, the arcane fraternity whose tentacles are said to extend into the highest echelons of power.

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David R Morgan admits to passing numerous works by other people as his own and says he is 'truly sorry'The poetry community is searching its soul after another case of multiple plagiarism emerged over the weekend.Publishers and magazines have been working to take down poems and suspend sales of collections by David R Morgan after the American poet Charles O Hartman realised Morgan's poem...

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There are more than a billion Muslims in the world, each with an individual view of life. So why are they viewed as a unified group, asks Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant FundamentalistIn 2007, six years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, I was travelling through Europe and North America. I had just published a novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and as I travelled I was...

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The bestselling author and digital pioneer shows his support for traditional bookshops.

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Soyinka, a Nobel laureate himself, also dismisses claims that Achebe was 'father of African literature'Calls for the late Chinua Achebe to be awarded a posthumous Nobel prize for literature have "gone beyond 'sickening'" and become "obscene and irreverent", Achebe's fellow Nigerian author – and 1986 Nobel laureate – Wole Soyinka has said.In a wide-ranging and passionate ,...

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Ancient manuscripts on science and history are symbols of Africa's cultural heritage, say guardians of priceless libraryThere is a proverb in Timbuktu, the legendary medieval city in Mali's desert, that says: "The ink of a scholar is more precious than the blood of a martyr."What Ahmed Baba, the 16th-century intellectual who said it, would make of recent developments is hard to imagine....

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The concerns of Orwells's 1946 essay remain notably relevant to the changes in written language wrought by the digital ageSome while ago, with reference to Orwell's essay on , I addressed the language of the internet, an issue that stubbornly refuses to go away. Perhaps now, more than ever, we need to consider afresh what's happening to English prose in cyberspace. To paraphrase Orwell, the...

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Author discusses possibility of chemotherapy, as well as fan letters he's been sending to other writersIain Banks, who in April, has posted another update to fans, in which he ruminates on everything from his new car to the possibility of chemotherapy.The bestselling Scottish novelist has been the recipient of an outpouring of goodwill and support from his readers since he told them in early...

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Video: Dan Brown tells us how much to believe in his books, and how Dante's 'rings of hell' inspired new novel Inferno

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