Edinburgh festival 2013The best (and worst) of the Edinburgh fringe festival 2013From dancing polythene to radical reinventions and feminist rage … as the dust settles on the Edinburgh festival, our critics name the highlights – and lowlights – of this year's fringeClothes? Who needs clothes?No standup show was complete at this year's Edinburgh fringe, it seemed, without a sprinkling of nudity. Tasmanian comic Hannah Gadsby shed her garments to make a point about her body image.

The Saturday poemBookstranslated by WS MerwinTonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.' The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

BooksReviewJohn Banville examines the nature of memory in his Beckettian Booker prize-winner, The Sea, says Nicholas LezardThe Sea by John Banville (Picador, £7.99) It won last year's Booker prize, so does not exactly need the oxygen of publicity: but this almost airless, deliberately stifled book is one of the more interesting titles that the prize has been conferred upon recently. The writer who most immediately springs to mind when reading Banville is Beckett.

Beaver damnation … a still from the Zombeavers trailer. Photograph: YouTube Photograph: YouTubeBeaver damnation … a still from the Zombeavers trailer. Photograph: YouTube Photograph: YouTubeFilm blogHorror filmsAfter Zombeavers, five more monster movies we'd like to seeWeasked readers to come up with titles for new B-movies that could rival the unimprovable Zombeavers. Stuart Heritage picks the best suggestions and imagines what they might entail Last week, fuelled by the prospect of watching a real film called Zombeavers, we set you an impossible task.

OpinionIsrael-Gaza warIsrael is murdering Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Where is the outrage?Chris McGrealThe pattern of killing cannot be denied. Is there a lack of sympathy because the victims aren’t American or European? I am in awe of Wael Dahdouh’s strength to haul himself back in front of the camera and focus on the suffering of others even as he has repeatedly endured his own personal hell. The face of Al Jazeera’s reporting throughout Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza was on air in October when he learned that his wife, seven-year-old daughter, 15-year-old son and one-year-old grandson were killed in an attack.