Culture

Gun Law

No need to panic over Gangsta Rap, says Andrew Calcutt

The luxury of doubt: Laurie Taylor interviews Will Self

Satirist, moralist and literary provocateur —Will Self lectures Laurie Taylor on addiction, debauchery, banality and the search for serious thought

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

Defying the Gods

Salman Rushide's latest short stories reviewed by Bonnie Greer

Christian cruelty

Victor Lewis–Smith demands the right to die painlessly

Easy does it

A slow tale reviewed by Alan Brownjohn

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Laurie Taylor is startled by his mail bag