Space invaders
New towns are often derided as eyesores. But, argues Owen Hatherley, they could transform the future, if we save them from the traditionalists
Culture
The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson
Nina Power considers complicity in Iraq
Three-Letter Plague by Johnny Steinberg
Andrew Mueller enjoys some journalism with a human touch
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
James Randerson encounters a strange legend of physics
Teenagers: A Natural History by David Bainbridge
Bill Thompson gets down with the kids
Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
Philip Womack barely survives the tedium of a new Chinese novel
The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior by Paul Strathern
Brenda Maddox enjoys some Renaissance history
One track mind
Laurie Taylor hopes he’s not a running joke
In the burning house
In 2005 Russian artist Anna Alchuk was publicly vilified and put on trial for her involvement in the Caution:Religion! exhibition. Three years later she drowned herself. Her husband, the philosopher…
Bad Faith Awards 2008
Following a tough campaign and a hard-fought election, we can finally announce last year's most scurrilous enemy of reason