Culture

Design for living

Bauhaus architects wanted to build a more rational world. Hugh Pearman explores the links between humanism and the Modernist movement

Ashley Kahn on Coltrane's spiritual journey

Nina Power says the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth is worth celebrating

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

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

Chris Paling visits Paul Auster's Brooklyn

Laurie Taylor wonders what you do when friends go freaky