All or nothing
John Maddox is fascinated by a never-ending story
Culture
Mother of Pearl
An exclusive poem by Ruth Padel
Wild Vagaries
Jim Herrick considers the two sides of August Strindberg
Throwing Up
Chris Paling is left queasy by Alice Walker
Heavenly bodies
Laurie Taylor finds himself at a feast that's impossible to swallow
Beats, rhymes and grime
As record companies play safe by producing bland supermarket pop, Caspar Melville hopes an unlikely contender - British hip hop - will succeed in bringing music back to life
Anarchist with attitude: Laurie Taylor interviews Linda Smith
Comedian Linda Smith, who died in 2006, was the president of the British Humanist Association. In this interview from 2004 she talks to Laurie Taylor about atheism, authority and her…
Legacy of Cruelty
Sally Feldman on a rich new novel by Jane Gardam
Awkward Questions
Andrew Tudor asks what makes a good documentary
Learning to think
Jonathan Derbyshire gets thinking with David Papineau