Algebraic amours
Hugh Burkhardt on how to stop worrying and love the (bouncing) bomb
Culture
Lone Star
Andy Tudor celebrates the radical work of John Sayles
Hopeless Romantic
Karen Hewitt goes travelling with Turgenev
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
Where’s the action?
Jeremy Stangroom has enough of haçiendas
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