Culture

Aura Bore

Laurie Taylor wonders what you do when friends go freaky

Serious intent: Laurie Taylor interviews Isabel Hilton

Acclaimed journalist Isabel Hilton talks to Laurie Taylor about China, democracy, dictatorships and her passion to represent those at the bottom of the heap

God’s my big homie

Caspar Melville reports on the resurrection of religion in black popular music

Not waving, but dying

"Down a bit lower. That's it. Now, look at the camera. And now look puzzled. That doesn't look like 'puzzled'. Really puzzled. Hold it. Now, can you get even lower?"

Buggering on a pinhead

Martin Rowson is delighted to report that religion is on it's last legs

Men in Masks

Sally Feldman isn't enamoured with Allende's swashbuckler

Dark materials

Jim Herrick discovers Joan Bakewell's Belief

The real thing

Caspar Melville on the oddness of rock snobbery

Denouement

Andrew Tudor wonders what happened to all the arthouse cinemas

Hell is other iPods

Caspar Melville on the loneliness of the long-distance shuffler