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• The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley

  Simon May comes face to face with mortality

• Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy

  Jonathan Derbyshire admires a dystopian classic

• The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history

• Motley crew

  Laurie Taylor gets medieval with the cults

• Heights of madness

  As Sex and the City totters on to the big screen, Sally Feldman celebrates the agony and the ecstasy of the stiletto

• Writing on the wall

  Henri Lefebvre, the theoretician of the Paris uprising of 1968, saw that society’s most profound truths were etched on everyday life, discovers Daniel Miller

• Field of nightmares

  As festival season begins Andrew Mueller counts off the reasons to avoid them

• Forked tongue

  Doug Ireland examines the reputation of Tariq Ramadan, the man widely hailed as the saviour of Islam

• Diary: Man the hedgerows

  The spirit of freedom lives on in parklife, says Ken Worpole

• A chorus of booze

  In today's health-scare climate, it takes Kingsley Amis to remind us of the joys of drunkenness, says Toby Saul