By Alkesh Sharma, Zirakpur, March 19 : Marx, Lenin and Che are certainly alive and kicking if one is to go by the accessories, posters, books and magazines on Communist ideology that have suddenly flooded this town, 10 km from Chandigarh..

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Communism digs in, with much memorabilia, in Punjab town (New Kerala)

Over four million copies of this trickster tale have sold worldwide since its publication in 1999 and with good reason. It is imaginative and magical as well as being beautifully written and illustrated.

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Once upon a time: The best children's books, from bedtime stories to help with potty training... (Independent)

TWILIGHT fans now have an addition for their collection, with the first volume in the graphic novel adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's books hitting stores.

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Twilight graphic novel a treat (News Mail)

Twilight fans now have an addition for their collection, with the first volume in the graphic novel adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's books hitting stores.

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Twilight the graphic novel a tasty treat (thewest.com.au)

Hollywood actor to read Jim Morrison's poetry on soundtrack album for forthcoming documentary The soundtrack album for a forthcoming Doors documentary will feature 12 of the band's classic songs, five rare clips – and 15 tracks of Johnny Depp reading poetry. The actor appears on almost half of the record's cuts, reciting verse written by Jim Morrison. Depp provides the narration for When You're ...

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Johnny Depp to feature on Doors album (Guardian Unlimited)

There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14 issue of the New York Review of Books, the scholar and political essayist Tony Judt announced that he was dying.

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There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14... (San Francisco Chronicle)

UK ginancial group Arbuthnot went back into the black last year as it became a rare example of a bank where profits have been driven by its retail business and not investment banking.

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Arbuthnot back in the black thanks to retail banking (Daily Telegraph)

My friend André de Wet, who has died aged 75, was a photographer with a sharp eye for news pictures and a rare sense of artistry. Born in Cape Town, he was educated at Wellington boys high school, in Cape Province

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André de Wet obituary (Guardian Unlimited)

I spent my first 5 years living in the Vanderveer section of Brooklyn, NY. My very earliest memory in life was of a large stack of Little Golden Books that sat on the floor, next to a big 1950's style sofa.

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Little Golden Books (San Francisco Chronicle)

Suffering from erectile dysfunction or benign prostatic hyperplasia? Go out and buy a book.

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Sex, death ... and Reading (Forbes)