‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independence
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Human rights for the 21st century: by Margaret Atwood, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Dave Eggers and more
The right to live offline, to self-define, to choose, to a healthy planet … as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70, leading authors reimagine it for today
Read moreThe Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher review – love, loss and banter in multicultural Britain
A story about two families in Sheffield – one white English; the other from Bangladesh – meanders through the decades
Read morePartition, 70 years on: Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie and other writers reflect
More than a million were killed and many millions more displaced by Indian partition. Authors consider its bloody legacy and the crises now facing their countries
Read moreBrick Lane in the 80s: before it became Banglatown
Raju Vaidyanathan’s photographs of east London’s famous street market area in the 80s capture how much it has changed
Read moreShould writers boycott book festivals in countries where rights are under threat?
Luxurious offers from international events are tempting – but as authors and campaigners explain, they come with heavy ethical baggage
Read moreEmma Watson: the feminist and the fairytale
She’s about to star as the heroine of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but post-Potter she has received more plaudits for her activism than her acting
Read moreThe Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters by Nadiya Hussain review – what the Bake Off winner did next
This warm-hearted family saga from the Great British Bake Off star will surely sell like hot cakes – but I wish celebrities wouldn’t dominate the bookshelves
Read moreFour Futures: Life After Capitalism review – will robots bring utopia or terror?
Peter Frase’s roaming, thoughtful work of ‘social science fiction’ sketches out a frightening future of rich v poor
Read moreBob Dylan is not the first songwriter to win the Nobel prize for literature
The 1913 Nobel prize for literature was awarded to the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. His work, like Dylan’s, recreates tradition and crosses genres
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