Culture

Lost plot

Brenda Maddox reviews Mary Loudon's memoir of a lost sister

Michael Bywater misses his ivory tower

Stuart Sim reviews the latest from an up-and-coming Canadian novelist

Douglas Rushkoff strips the Bible back to basics

Laurie Taylor goes into orbit

Sally Feldman on the dazzling flaws of a Jewish chronicle

Evolution cannot explain culture: there are limits to the uses of Darwinism, says Adam Kuper

What's so funny about all those Twankeys and Trots strutting onto centre stage up and down the country? Sally Feldman defrocks the pantomime dame

Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore

Andrew Tudor struggles to pin down the enigma of Robert Altman