God’s my big homie
Caspar Melville reports on the resurrection of religion in black popular music
Culture
Born to be mild
Stanley Middleton's new novel fails to live up to its title says Chris Paling
Coming home
Judi Herman finds that love is thicker than blood
Line of beauty: Laurie Taylor interviews Edmund White
Edmund White, high priest of casual sex, tells Laurie Taylor why he's still glad to be a gay icon
Demons for sale
A low budget film about exorcism has become a runaway success in the US, writes Solana Larsen
Viewing the body
Explicit media images of death perform a vital social function, argues Jean Seaton
Learning to love yourself
Laurie Taylor gets to grips with sharing
Natty Dread
Lloyd Bradley assesses the eternal influence of Jamaica's finest
Light reading
Candy Clarke on Nadime Gordimer's 14th novel
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?"