Hanging on

James Fenton: wanted, a policy on museum sales.

Cultural hallmark

He grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, studied at Oxford and emerged as one of the country's leading cultural theorists, helping to define the huge changes in 20th-century Britain. Now 75, he talks to Tim Adams about his pioneering new venture, and the alarming cultural shifts that define the new century.

First, catch your bunny

Deep-fried Flopsy and Mopsy? There's more to meat-eating than pork chops, discovers Caroline Boucher.

The beast within the beauty

Julie Kavanagh's Rudolf Nureyev reveals a peerless dancer and entrancing character but also a deeply unattractive man, says Peter Conrad.

Mirren images

Helen Mirrren's autobiography In the Frame could have done with less pictures and more words, says Eva Wiseman.

Presidents at war and peace

A more complex and articulate George W Bush's emerges in Robert Draper's Dead Certain, while Bill Clinton's traditional concerns are writ large in Giving, says Peter Preston.

Where time stands still

Simon Schama's book Rough Crossings records the lives of those who suffered as slaves on Bunce Island. Caryl Phillips, who has adapted their stories for the stage, recalls his pilgrimage to 'this miserable place'.

The way we were

Francis Beckett finds Roy Hattersley's Borrowed Time fails to reflect the clamour of Britain between the wars.

Adventures in Greene-land

Terry Eagleton finds an extraordinary career and peripatetic life revealed in Richard Greene's collection of Graham Greene's letters.

Mainly fair, moderate, or good

As Radio 4 celebrates its 40th birthday, Stefan Collini asks what this national institution tells us about our cultural climate. By Stefan Collini.

Evening

Andrew Pulver: Vanessa Redgrave and Claire Danes star in an affected and overwrought adaptation of Susan Minot's novel about a dying woman's memories of her youth.

The Sound of Music

Xan Brooks: Robert Wise’s adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones.