You are browsing: Culture

• After Dark by Haruki Murakami

  Jonathan Derbyshire stays up for a rendezvous with Haruki Murakami

• A Guinea Pig's History of Biology

  Lewis Wolpert learns the facts of life from plants

• Minding by Chris Paling

  Philip Womack is impressed by Chris Paling's mind

• Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism by Andrew Petto & Laurie Godfrey (eds)

  AC Grayling cheers as the scientists vanquish Intelligent Design

• Fangland by John Marks

  Nina Power relishes a Dracula for the TV generation

• Napoleon in Egypt by Paul Strathern

  In 1789 Napoleon set off to conquer the East. We're still living with the fallout, says Michael Binyon

• Deep-boned sadness

  Caspar Melville remembers a melancholic master, the novelist Kurt Vonnegut

• Cosy concrete

  Alvar Aalto's organic modernism may be seductive. But, warns Owen Hatherley, it can also lead to the banal

• Waking dream

  As the "Dalì and Film" exhibition opens at Tate Modern, Isabelle McNeill reflects on the legacy of Surrealist cinema

• Diary: Birthing Pains

  For Martin Rowson the agony and ecstasy of publishing a book is the male equivalent of childbirth