Visionary Grandeur
Michael Levey on Michelangelo, men and mankind
Culture
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
Private Urgencies
Sarah Lawson is wowed by a progressive poet
Smoke and Mirrors
Wendy Grossman learns a few tricks from Jim Steinmeyer
Divine comedy
Popetowns associate producer, Stacy Herbert, on the farcical story of how the BBC bowed to religious pressure
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…