Culture

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

The Moral of the Tale

Andrew Tudor on how cinema bears the Cross

Riot of metaphors

Sally Feldman struggles with Jeanette Winterson’s symbolic prose

Upper-crust manouvres

Chris Paling joins high society

Secular songs

Tony Russell sings the Blues