Culture

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

Losing the Plot

Michael Byers’s new novel is a story looking for a plot, says Sally Feldman

Fighting talk

Laurie Taylor takes a walk on the wild side

Learning to fly: Laurie Taylor interviews Ralph Steadman

Ralph Steadman tells Laurie Taylor how he became such a bother

Graceful cynicism

Peter Kerr-Jarrett on the poetry of Catullus