Lobster Soup
by Padraig Reidy
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