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Not waving, but dying

"Down a bit lower. That's it. Now, look at the camera. And now look puzzled. That doesn't look like 'puzzled'. Really puzzled. Hold it. Now, can you get even lower?"

Buggering on a pinhead

Martin Rowson is delighted to report that religion is on it's last legs

Men in Masks

Sally Feldman isn't enamoured with Allende's swashbuckler

Dark materials

Jim Herrick discovers Joan Bakewell's Belief

The real thing

Caspar Melville on the oddness of rock snobbery

Wild Vagaries

Jim Herrick considers the two sides of August Strindberg

Denouement

Andrew Tudor wonders what happened to all the arthouse cinemas

Hell is other iPods

Caspar Melville on the loneliness of the long-distance shuffler

Stalked by life

Chris paling is gripped by Kurkov’s death in Kiev

When I’m gone

Laurie Taylor on loss and lament