Culture

The sociologist on holiday

Les Back has some suggestions of which books not to take on vacation

Quizmaster Chris Maslanka challenges you to sidestep death and defeat the dreaded lurgy

Philip Womack is uninspired by a dystopian debut

Angela Saini feels at home with Tim Radford

Jenny Bunker finds a re-issued book on the passions of war more pertinent than ever

Is it a noble instinct or a destructive desire? Sally Feldman delves into the pathology of collecting

Andrew Mueller admires Jon Ronson's sanity

Cartoons from the May/June issue of New Humanist magazine

Laurie Taylor can't keep his mouth shut

Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution