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• Right to offend?

  As the Virtual Museum of Offensive Art opens online, Floris van den Berg ponders the limits of freedom

• Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of the Victorian Mind by Antonio Melechi

  Peter Wayne serves up the supernatural

• Something To Tell You by Hanif Kureishi

  Philip Womack has something to tell you about Hanif Kureishi's latest

• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

  Bill Thompson finds Michio Kaku's science impossibly bad

• Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds

  Andrew Mueller travels back in time to Acid House

• The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

  Shirley Dent believes Rushdie is the ultimate humanist storyteller

• Book Review: Suckers

  Natalie Haynes endorses an attack on alternative medicine

• End Game: Sound of silence

  Laurie Taylor waxes lyrical

• Diary: Give us a hug

  Peyvand Khorsandi pays a visit to Amma – India's hugging saint

• Malls & Mausoleums

  Iran refuses to conform to expectations, finds Nina Power