Alehouse rock: Laurie Taylor interviews Tom Baker
Tom Baker takes Laurie Taylor on a pub crawl
Culture
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
Empire Apart
Hazhir Teimourian examines the insularity of the Ottoman Empire
All or nothing
John Maddox is fascinated by a never-ending story
Mother of Pearl
An exclusive poem by Ruth Padel