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• Leggo Relijan: Laurie Taylor interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of only two living poets to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. Laurie Taylor talks to him about reggae and resistance.

• A sunny Eccentric

  Jim Herrick on AN Wilson's biography of Iris Murdoch

• Go Sue God

  Mike Power watches the Big Yin fight for damages

• The luxury of doubt: Laurie Taylor interviews Will Self

  Satirist, moralist and literary provocateur —Will Self lectures Laurie Taylor on addiction, debauchery, banality and the search for serious thought

• Easy does it

  A slow tale reviewed by Alan Brownjohn

• Groucho's elephants

  by Jonathan Derbyshire

• The future of journalism

  Paul Barker can see change coming

• Christian cruelty

  Victor Lewis–Smith demands the right to die painlessly

• Gore blimey!

  Andrew Tudor shudders at the latest horror

• Funny Peculiar

  by Martin Rowson