What on earth did Hitler see in her?

A compendium of Diana Mosley's writing achieves the near-impossible, discovers Rachel Cooke: making the Mitfords seem dull

‘Humming the air with the verses I have framed’

Review: The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography by Robert CrawfordAndrew Motion welcomes a balanced new biography of the ploughman poet

A little of what you fancy

Review: Sex, Drugs & Chocolate by Paul MartinBlake Morrison wallows in sins of the flesh and discovers a new way to pick up good vibrations

The Spirit

Frank Miller's adaptation of the antique comic strip by Will Eisner is brash, noisy and so alarmingly ill-paced that it should with a software package that allows viewers to recut it as they see fit

The Reader

Kate Winslet is good as a former Auschwitz guard, but she can't save Stephen Daldry's shallow adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel. By Peter Bradshaw

The lad himself

Review: Tony Hancock by John FisherSimon Callow welcomes a fellow devotee's account of his own boyhood hero

The Anatomist

Review: The Anatomist: The Autobiography of Anthony SampsonDavid Leigh salutes a great journalist

Talk about a flawed genius

Review: Biography roundup 2008In a year of big hitters, no one proved quite so fascinating as the brilliant yet brutal VS Naipaul, writes Rachel Cooke

Sadly missed

Review: Lost Buildings: Demolished, Destroyed, Imagined, Reborn by Jonathan GlanceyMiranda Seymour is devastated by a catalogue of architectural vanishings