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

Reader’s digest

Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible

Cheap Shots

Andrew Tudor wants morality with his violence

Nutty Professors

Victor-Lewis Smith takes a critical look at science on TV

Gilt Money

Paul Barker watches St Petersburg go backwards

The Art of Evil

Leni Riefenstahl’s career illustrated the power of the big lie, says Brian Winston; none more so than the one she endlessly retold about herself