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  • Sphere of influence

    Blogs can be sloppy and vitriolic, admits Owen Hatherley. But they are also a breeding ground for original voices

  • Film review: Synecdoche, New York

    Fred Rowson is fascinated and frustrated by Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut

  • South Africa's Brave New World by RW Johnson

    Stephen Howe on a monumental, snarling study of post-apartheid South Africa

  • Gothic revival

    Outsider, troublemaker, genteel bum – Nick Mamatas celebrates the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the perverse

  • Shadow boxing

    Cultural relativism and Western chauvinism share one basic principle, claims Kenan Malik: a loss of faith in universal values

  • Chasing shadows

    Santu Mofokeng is one of South Africa’s most celebrated photographers, recognised for his work with the Afrapix collective and on the newspaper New Nation. In these photographs he records a country struggling to come to terms with its past and future

  • The art of phwoar

    Free websites like Pornhub mean that explicit sex films are only a click away. But are they any good? Michael Bywater offers a classical critique

  • Film review: Let The Right One In

    Sad, funny and frightening – this Swedish horror is not to be missed, says Fred Rowson

  • Laurie Taylor – a life in cartoons

    For over six years our cartoonist, Martin Rowson, has been drawing cartoons for Laurie Taylor's regular column. For the first time we've brought these all together, hoping the shocking nature of the images will alert you to the perils of living the life of a dedicated heathen. You have been warned.

  • Film review: Religulous

    Debunking faith on screen is a confused business, finds Fred Rowson