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• Spectre at the Feast

  Jim Herrick enters the murky world of the ghost writer

• 'Witless Vulgarity'

  A new study of reality TV audiences challenges lazy assumptions about the shows and their viewers. Annette Hill wants the critics to take a fresh look

• Learning to think

  Jonathan Derbyshire gets thinking with David Papineau

• Smoke and Mirrors

  Wendy Grossman learns a few tricks from Jim Steinmeyer

• Heavenly bodies

  Laurie Taylor finds himself at a feast that'’s impossible to swallow

• Awkward Questions

  Andrew Tudor asks what makes a good documentary

• Private Urgencies

  Sarah Lawson is wowed by a progressive poet

• Diderot's triumph

  Haydn Mason consults the original humanist bible

• Throwing Up

  Chris Paling is left queasy by Alice Walker

• Where's the action?

  Jeremy Stangroom has enough of haçiendas