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• Losing the Plot

  Michael Byers’s new novel is a story looking for a plot, says Sally Feldman

• In a country forecourt

  Paul Barker on the new architectural landmarks: petrol stations

• Jailhouse Reels

  The release of Carandiru prompts Andrew Tudor to reflect on the prison movie genre

• Stripping Assets

  As speculation mounts about who will be the new owner of Britain's best-selling conservative broadsheet, the Daily Telegraph, so does disgust at the prospect of a 'pornographer' as proprietor. But how much do his detractors actually know about his business? Sally Feldman delves between the covers

• Dad-lit in Decline

  by Chris Paling

• 'That's for the fellahs!': Laurie Taylor interviews Beryl Bainbridge

  Beryl Bainbridge, who died on 2 July 2010, talked to Laurie Taylor in 2004, about death, religion and the novelist's search for higher meaning

• A dark heritage of fiction

  by Sally Feldman

• Graceful cynicism

  Peter Kerr-Jarrett on the poetry of Catullus

• Angels in America

  The latest batch of US television shows heading our way has a distinctly mystic tone, warns Rob Greene

• Reader's digest

  Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible