Culture

Relative Truths

Jonathan Derbyshire on Steven Lukes' broadside against relativism

Writers Talk

Frank Jordans talks to author Karel van Loon

Sooo…. Intelligent

Shirley Dent has little sympathy for Adam Thirlwell's Politics

Menocchio Uncowed

Ian Duhig, for New Humanist

Leggo Relijan: Laurie Taylor interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of only two living poets to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. Laurie Taylor talks to him about reggae and resistance.

A sunny Eccentric

Jim Herrick on AN Wilson's biography of Iris Murdoch

Raw Material

Jeremy Stangroom goes down to the woods with AS Byatt

Count me out

Laurie Taylor gets ready to resign (again)

20p a Prayer

Is an artwork entitled ‘It pays to pray’ satirical, or is it ‘spiritual’, asks Marilyn Mason

Nuclear Threat

Mark Steel wonders whether we should be worried about the Women’s Institute