Culture

Angels in America

The latest batch of US television shows heading our way has a distinctly mystic tone, warns Rob Greene

Jailhouse Reels

The release of Carandiru prompts Andrew Tudor to reflect on the prison movie genre

In a country forecourt

Paul Barker on the new architectural landmarks: petrol stations

Graceful cynicism

Peter Kerr-Jarrett on the poetry of Catullus

Dad-lit in Decline

by Chris Paling

A dark heritage of fiction

by Sally Feldman

‘That’s for the fellahs!’: Laurie Taylor interviews Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge, who died on 2 July 2010, talked to Laurie Taylor in 2004, about death, religion and the novelist's search for higher meaning

Reader’s digest

Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible

Defying the Gods

Salman Rushide's latest short stories reviewed by Bonnie Greer

Christian cruelty

Victor Lewis–Smith demands the right to die painlessly