Graphic novel of the monthComics and graphic novelsReviewCartoonist Adrian Tomine's 'prenuptial memoir' lays bare the fiasco of the modern wedding with acid witDo you have a friend who is in the process of turning into Bridezilla (or even Groomzilla, since women certainly don't have a monopoly on wedding madness)? Then I have the perfect gift for her – though on second thoughts, perhaps this is a treat best left until after her nuptials when, one hopes, your friend will miraculously recover her mislaid sense of humour.

The ObserverWorld newsThe day Israel realised that this was a real warWhen a bloody ambush in a Lebanese village ripped apart a squad of Israeli troops last week, the full reality of the fighting reached homes in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time. But calls for a major offensive have reawakened painful memories of old defeats, and old losses, across the troubled borderIt was five in the morning and the lead Golani Brigade squad was moving carefully through the outskirts of Bint Jbeil when a burst of automatic fire rang out.

Top 10sFictionFrom Saul Bellow to Philip Roth, novelist Andrew Rosenheim salutes the writers who have captured the beauty, and the ugliness, of his hometownBrowse the archive of Writers' top 10s Whatever Thomas Wolfe once wrote, you can go home again, even if it's only in your head. I came to England as a student 35 years ago, and stayed, but the books I've written are almost uniformly set in the United States, and two of them in my native Chicago.

Fashion This article is more than 1 year oldAdidas loses four stripes court battle with designer Thom BrowneThis article is more than 1 year oldSportswear company claimed fashion label’s motif was too similar to its trademark three-stripe logo Adidas has lost a court case against the designer Thom Browne, after the sportswear company said the use of four stripes in his designs was too close to its trademark three-stripe logo.

Arcade Fire This article is more than 9 years oldAgainst Me's Laura Jane Grace slams Arcade Fire for transgender videoThis article is more than 9 years old'Maybe when making a video for a song called We Exist you should get an actual 'trans' actor instead of Spider-Man,' writes the singer Laura Jane Grace: 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' Against Me's Laura Jane Grace has reproached Arcade Fire for casting Andrew Garfield as a trans woman in their new music video.