In the Sunday Times Stephen Armstrong offers what he thinks are: 'The key facts about the coolest writer in the world today', in Ten things you need to know about Haruki Murakami.

MNA find that Iranian bookstores have different bestseller lists.

In the Telegraph Gary Dexter investigates How The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea got its name -- meaning the English title of the 1963 Mishima Yukio novel.

In Words Worth in the Sunday (Deccan) Herald Mita Kapur offers a solid overview of the rise of so-called 'literary' agents in India.

In Five Best in the Wall Street Journal 'Jackie Collins picks her favorite literary guilty pleasures' and to my great embarrassment I've read three of them.

Noel Malcolm reviews The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis

Lionel Shriver reviews America America by Ethan Canin

Gary Dexter investigates 'The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea' by Yukio Mishima

The Wild Places; Rudolf Nureyev; Three Victories and a Defeat; Bambi vs. Godzilla; The Outcast; Winnie and Wolf .

William Leith reviews Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate by Kenan Malik

Mark Sanderson at large in a world of books

Holly Kyte reviews The Widow's Secret by Brian Thompson

Lucy Beresford reviews Illuminations by Eva Hoffman

Our regular review of the reviews

Helen Castor reviews A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More by John Guy

Justin Marozzi reviews War Plc by Stephen Armstrong

Susanna Yager reviews crime fiction

Jane Shilling reviews The Spare Room by Helen Garner and Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame