Hopeless Romantic
Karen Hewitt goes travelling with Turgenev
Culture
From Juke Joints to Jamie Callum
Caspar Melville goes in search of the spirit of jazz
Alehouse rock: Laurie Taylor interviews Tom Baker
Tom Baker takes Laurie Taylor on a pub crawl
Classic Intellectual
AC Grayling admires Umberto Eco's new opus
No more Mr Nice Guy
Laurie Taylor refuses to sign up
Writer’s block
Sally Feldman on a flawed portrait of Henry James
God of small meetings
Laurie Taylor asks for a show of hands. Wine will be served later
‘Witless Vulgarity’
A new study of reality TV audiences challenges lazy assumptions about the shows and their viewers. Annette Hill wants the critics to take a fresh look
Frontline Films
Mitchell Miller on two close-up views of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Spectre at the Feast
Jim Herrick enters the murky world of the ghost writer