The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre
Francis Beckett on a bleak timely novel about those charged with covering up Catholic child abuse
Culture
The last of the bohemians
Tom McDonough celebrates the subversive poetic vision of the Situationists
Film review: Shutter Island
There's nothing wrong with pulp but why has Scorsese dressed it up with technique, asks Fred Rowson
The New Old World by Perry Anderson
Stephen Howe on Perry Anderson's monumental analysis of Europe
Aura & out
Laurie Taylor balances his chakras
Brain drain
Laurie Taylor does some thinking aloud
Logicomix: An Epic Search for the Truth by Apostolous Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou
Marcus Chown enjoys a graphic maths lesson
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano
Andreas Campomar surveys the 20th century with a Uruguayan master
Testament by Jean Meslier
Colin Brewer admires the last testament of an atheist priest
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne
Max Houghton on stunning new photographs of America's state asylums