Guardian Hay festival 2003
Loose tongues and liberty
As the only animals with the power of speech, we should revel in our ability to challenge the forces that try to silence us, whatever the consequences. By Hanif Kureishi
Alan Parker turns to novel writing
After 14 films and 28 years in the highest branches of the Hollywood tree, Alan Parker is turning to the novel.
Bryson to turn over the maple leaf
US 'is an empire in denial'
Universally acknowledged hunk vetoed nude scene
Tassels on your shoes? Then Britain's not for you
Making a vice out of virtue
Queens of the bonkbuster and Aga saga defend the art - and heart - of their fiction
Sylvia Plath 'not a victim'
Fry pitches Waugh's 'kind of morgue comedy'
Texan values 'are new global menace'
Kureishi accuses 'fascist' Labour
Waugh of words for Evelyn's centenary
The pleasures of Hay's stacks