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French Farce

Hip hop didn't spark the riots in Paris, says Caspar Melville; it merely predicted them

Laurie Taylor questions yet another time-honoured certainty

Stanley Middleton's new novel fails to live up to its title says Chris Paling

Judi Herman finds that love is thicker than blood

Edmund White, high priest of casual sex, tells Laurie Taylor why he's still glad to be a gay icon

A low budget film about exorcism has become a runaway success in the US, writes Solana Larsen

Explicit media images of death perform a vital social function, argues Jean Seaton

Laurie Taylor gets to grips with sharing

Lloyd Bradley assesses the eternal influence of Jamaica's finest

Candy Clarke on Nadime Gordimer's 14th novel