Confessions of a Bob Dylan fan
Dylan fans are notoriously obsessive. A new book explores their "fan extremism".
Culture
Isabel Allende: “There’s a change in the way we think”
The writer discusses technology, politics, and her move into crime fiction.
The ethics of the terraces
In football's murky moral world, where should fans draw the line?
What the Christians did for us
Do modern liberal values have their origins in religious tradition?
What is the alternative to globalisation?
Review: The Poorer Nations by Vijay Prashad.
Tim Minchin: “It just happens that I’m right”
Tim Minchin may be happy making big commercial films and musicals – but he’s also a man with a mission.
Rooting for the enemy: The Americans
In The Americans, Soviet spies pose as a US family. The subversive flourish is that we are cheering for their success.
Oddballs, loners and voyeurs
A prolific novelist and essayist, Muriel Spark disdained sentimentality – yet this masks just how strange her writing could be.
The politics of everyday life
Culture is neither passively consumed, nor handed down from on high, as the work of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart reminds us.
The rise and fall of Robin Thicke
The best reaction to a man who courts controversy is total apathy.