Dark materials
Jim Herrick discovers Joan Bakewell's Belief
Culture
The real thing
Caspar Melville on the oddness of rock snobbery
From Juke Joints to Jamie Callum
Caspar Melville goes in search of the spirit of jazz
Alehouse rock: Laurie Taylor interviews Tom Baker
Tom Baker takes Laurie Taylor on a pub crawl
Classic Intellectual
AC Grayling admires Umberto Eco's new opus
No more Mr Nice Guy
Laurie Taylor refuses to sign up
Endless Riddles
Chris Paling suspends his disbelief for Haruki Murakami
Very Boring Women
Sally Feldman is unsatisfied by Forster's cast of vague characters
Visionary Grandeur
Michael Levey on Michelangelo, men and mankind
Reason meets faith
Haydn Mason reads an account of a Baroque clash of hearts and minds