Culture

From Juke Joints to Jamie Callum

Caspar Melville goes in search of the spirit of jazz

Tom Baker takes Laurie Taylor on a pub crawl

AC Grayling admires Umberto Eco's new opus

Laurie Taylor refuses to sign up

Chris Paling suspends his disbelief for Haruki Murakami

Sally Feldman is unsatisfied by Forster's cast of vague characters

Michael Levey on Michelangelo, men and mankind

Haydn Mason reads an account of a Baroque clash of hearts and minds

Hazhir Teimourian examines the insularity of the Ottoman Empire

John Maddox is fascinated by a never-ending story