The Book

One of Germany's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded at the start of the Frankfurt Book Festival, has gone to the Hungarian-born Terézia Mora .

Is the future of the book made from paper to be appreciated largely as a beautiful object, not necessarily destined to die out but to become a remote, old-fashioned, cultured cousin while more and more production is transferred to electronic format?

Publishers of course have always deprecated book censorship, but have they always fought it?

James Moran offers his thoughts on the new Library of Birmingham, which opened earlier this month and which puts books and literary culture at the heart of England.

We all know what is happening, but what will happen in the end? Keep turning those pages.

Men and women, we were told in school, have been engineered by God to be attracted to each other and thus ensure the continuance of the human race. But perhaps there is a design fault.

What are all those old books for anyway? Could you not get them out of the library? Do you ever read them? I never see you reading them.

Rebecca Solnit is far from impressed by the corporate behemoth that owns everyone's favourite search engine - and all its works, and all its pomps.

Some clients of Amazon are a little aggrieved at the company's business practices. The company says it only wants to sell all its books for nothing, make everyone happy and set all the horses free.

Kenan Malik talks to Princeton professor of modern European history Jonathan Israel about the Enlightenment and the connections between radical religion, democratic ideas and tolerance of difference of opinion.

An institute founded by a scion of the Italian book distribution industry aims to arm the next generation of booksellers against the threat of being steamrollered by the online giants.

The prestigious British prize has announced its annual winners in the categories of journalism and political writing, together with a special prize for foreign correspondent the late Marie Colvin, who died in Syria.