Heights of madness
As Sex and the City totters on to the big screen, Sally Feldman celebrates the agony and the ecstasy of the stiletto
Culture
Writing on the wall
Henri Lefebvre, the theoretician of the Paris uprising of 1968, saw that society’s most profound truths were etched on everyday life, discovers Daniel Miller
Field of nightmares
As festival season begins Andrew Mueller counts off the reasons to avoid them
Forked tongue
Doug Ireland examines the reputation of Tariq Ramadan, the man widely hailed as the saviour of Islam
Diary: Man the hedgerows
The spirit of freedom lives on in parklife, says Ken Worpole
A chorus of booze
In today's health-scare climate, it takes Kingsley Amis to remind us of the joys of drunkenness, says Toby Saul
Right to offend?
As the Virtual Museum of Offensive Art opens online, Floris van den Berg ponders the limits of freedom
Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of the Victorian Mind by Antonio Melechi
Peter Wayne serves up the supernatural
Something To Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
Philip Womack has something to tell you about Hanif Kureishi's latest
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
Bill Thompson finds Michio Kaku's science impossibly bad