Real books should be preserved like papyrus scrolls
In a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word. Books have a new place as sacred objects, and libraries as museums
Culture
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined – review
Royal Academy, London
The Royal Academy’s ambitious look beyond the purely visual aspects of architecture is full of surprises
Edgar Allan Poe: dividing audiences for nearly two centuries
Many of his peers found his writing pretty hard to stomach. But, like us, they still read it
Luc Besson opens luxury Paris multiplex
Twelve-screen cinema in exclusive shopping mall will offer patrons champagne and caviar
• Luc Besson: ‘Why I couldn’t give up making films’
• Luc Besson: Guardian/BFI interview
Guitar hero: Coriolanus goes rock
China’s most controversial director is bringing Shakespeare’s Coriolanus to Edinburgh – with two heavy-metal bands in tow. Andrew Dickson went to Beijing to hear the Bard turned up to 11
The Great Beauty: playboy of the Italian world
Toni Servillo has become known as Paolo Sorrentino’s muse. He talks about his latest role as an indolent playboy in a grand, swooning epic