Book review: In Office Hours by Lucy Kellaway
Winston Fletcher undresses the office affair
Culture
Call of the wild
The useless, the tragic, the deranged. Herzog’s subject is always the human, says Fred Rowson
The listeners
Les Back on the ordinary virtues of paying attention
Film review: Lourdes
Behind its restrained seriousness, this dramatisation of a disabled woman's pilgrimage has a vicious sense of humour, says Fred Rowson
Book Review: The Loser Letters by Mary Eberstadt
Andrew Mueller enjoys the end of a leaden satire of New Atheism
Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Louise Foxcroft on the oddest biography ever
Diary: Best of the worst
There are no bad books, just special ones says Robin Ince
Q&A: Tim Minchin
As he prepares for his first ever arena tour, we catch up with rising rationalist star Tim Minchin
Slings & arrows
Evolutionary archaeologist Timothy Taylor on the outrageous fortune that made us the dominant ape
Never give up
Laurie Taylor looks through a glass darkly