Culture

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

Private Urgencies

Sarah Lawson is wowed by a progressive poet

Smoke and Mirrors

Wendy Grossman learns a few tricks from Jim Steinmeyer

Divine comedy

Popetown’s associate producer, Stacy Herbert, on the farcical story of how the BBC bowed to religious pressure

Burnt–out case

Stuart Sim descends into the murky world of the crime novel

Has doom had its day?

Andrew Tudor on the decline of the disaster movie

All men won’t be brothers

A poem by Keith Morton

Beloved Penguin

Chris Paling on an extraordinary Ukrainian tale

Bloodletting

Louise Doughty learns to live with her history