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
Culture
Projecting the human
Andrew Tudor searches for the soul of cinema
Fiendish summer quiz
Win a host of prizes
Lost plot
Brenda Maddox reviews Mary Loudon's memoir of a lost sister
Goodbye to all that
Michael Bywater misses his ivory tower
Frozen waste
Stuart Sim reviews the latest from an up-and-coming Canadian novelist
God in the gutter
Douglas Rushkoff strips the Bible back to basics
Light reading
Candy Clarke on Nadime Gordimer's 14th novel
Lies, all lies
Chris Paling visits Paul Auster's Brooklyn
Aura Bore
Laurie Taylor wonders what you do when friends go freaky