Culture

Dark materials

Jim Herrick discovers Joan Bakewell's Belief

The real thing

Caspar Melville on the oddness of rock snobbery

Wild Vagaries

Jim Herrick considers the two sides of August Strindberg

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

Stalked by life

Chris paling is gripped by Kurkov’s death in Kiev

When I’m gone

Laurie Taylor on loss and lament

Cause without a rebel

Sally Feldman has issues with Ishiguro

You shall go to the ball

Misogynist trap, soppy fantasy, or universal truth? Sally Feldman waves a magic wand over Cinderella

Algebraic amours

Hugh Burkhardt on how to stop worrying and love the (bouncing) bomb