Culture

Sandals and spooks

Why did the British secret services take such a keen interest in the activities of folk icon Ewan MacColl? Ken Hunt digs in the archives

Andrew Tudor searches for the soul of cinema

Win a host of prizes

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