Frontline Films
Mitchell Miller on two close-up views of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Culture
Spectre at the Feast
Jim Herrick enters the murky world of the ghost writer
Private Urgencies
Sarah Lawson is wowed by a progressive poet
Writhing on Ecstasy
Acid House inspired even the most unlikely ravers to brave the dance floor. But did it leave anything behind once the high was over, asks Caspar Melville
Sculpted insights
Sally Feldman on Carol Shield's bid for immortality
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