Philip Pullman is planning to publish his controversial book The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ ahead of Easter next year Photo: Andrew Crowley "He wondered why I'd not put Jesus in His Dark Materials," says Pullman. Full Article at The Telegraph

Two years ago the Harry Potter creator announced she was making just seven leather-bound copies of her book The Tales of Beedle the Bard, six of which she gave to friends. Full Article at The Telegraph

• Eva Green in the Catherine Palace, St Petersburg, photographed for Mont Blanc. It's close to 5pm when I meet Eva Green, in a particularly quirky room in London's Sanderson Hotel. Full Article at The Scotsman

A couple of weeks ago in London, at a fundraiser for a prisoners’ rights organization Reprieve, the British writer Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy (better known in the US as The Golden Compass) unveiled an alternative Bible... Full Article at True/Slant

With a good deal of theatrical fare designed for family consumption at Christmas, you can confidently check your brains in at the cloakroom and sit back expecting a certain end-of-term laxity on the artistic front. Full Article at The Independent

As every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping Britain. Full Article at Butterflies and Wheels

Chris Weitz has blamed studio New Line for "emasculating" his Golden Compass adaptation. Full Article at Digital Spy

Philip Pullman alternative ending to the Bible isn't exactly wacky or daring Photo: Andrew Crowley As I was leaving church yesterday, a nice chap called Andy called to see if I would go on Radio 2 to talk about a new billboard campaign enjoining us... Full Article at The Telegraph

Front elevation for the Story Museum's new premises on Oxford's Pembroke Street. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

A friend of the author tells me: "He has written what would have happened if Jesus had had a fair trial. He knows it will be controversial, but he has some serious points to make." Full Article at The Telegraph

‘Thank you. It’s magnificent,’ said Philip Pullman as he opened the new extension at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford at the end of October. Full Article at Spectator Magazine

Danny Postel’s article about his search for a humanist literature for his children, was charming, but it could well be that this search is likely to prove frustrating. There is of course a growing quantity of pagan literature for children. Full Article at Butterflies and Wheels

Parents offering lifts to friends of their children will not need vetting (Posed by model) Parents who ferry their children's friends to clubs will not be forced to undergo big-brother style checks following an embarrassing Government climbdown. Full Article at Daily Mail - UK

While Chris Weitz's adaptation of The Golden Compass wasn't as successful or good as any fan of Philip Pullman's series would have hoped, though it did show that Weitz has a surprisingly good eye for special effects. Full Article at Cinema Blend

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In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers. Full Article at Corrente

Still from the The Golden Compass, based on Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, one of the year's most challenged authors The idea to write a poem addressing banned books and censorship came to her after all her books were banned from an Idaho town, she... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

While it may well sound like sour grapes, Philip Pullman, the author of the trilogy His Dark Materials, has castigated his fellow best-selling novelist Dan Brown for his "flat, stunted and ugly" prose. Full Article at Irish Independent

As The Lost Symbol, Brown's follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, is published, Pullman, who has sold 15 million books, says that his rival author populates his books with "completely flat and two-dimensional" characters. Full Article at The Telegraph