Meme Wars (part 1)
Evolution cannot explain culture: there are limits to the uses of Darwinism, says Adam Kuper
Culture
Mussolini in knickers
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
Meme Wars (part 2)
Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore
No short cuts
Andrew Tudor struggles to pin down the enigma of Robert Altman
Judgement days
Laurie Taylor finds out how long we've got
Occidental tourist
Stephen Howe is baffled by the same old story
Lost gods
Andrew Mueller on the ghost of punk
East of Eden
Jonathan Ree reviews Fallen by David Maine
Dying light
Toby Saul reviews Everyman by Philip Roth
Mr Gray’s Elegy
The playwright and diarist Simon Gray died on August 6, 2008. In this review for 2006 Brenda Maddox reviews the second volume of Gray's 'Smoking Diaries', 'The Year of The…