Neil Postman
Obituary: Sceptical American critic of the internet, television and the information age.
Our two wise men
David Aaronovitch: The political acuity of Orwell and Hobsbawm should be treasured by both Right and Left.
The end of the affair
Sue MacGregor discovers how Joan Bakewell conquered hurdles, both professional and emotional, yet never lost her integrity, in The Centre of the Bed
The view from downstairs
Catherine Bennett finds the Windsors' treatment of their domestic staff appalling in Paul Burrell's memoir, A Royal Duty, and Rebecca Tyrrel's portrait of Camilla Parker-Bowles. They have only themselves to blame for the latest avalanche of revelations and tittle-tattle
One of the chaps
Hermione Lee on Caroline Moorehead's account of Martha Gellhorn, a brave and glamorous journalist who loved writing more than she did men
Writing from a borrowed land
Maya Jaggi on Isabel Allende's recollections of her native Chile, My Invented Country
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Important feminist literary critic and theorist who, as Amanda Cross, was also a much-loved writer of detective stories.
Chaucer’s tales go online complete with old graffiti
Even today, the saga of the Wife of Bath and her toyboy is found colourful enough to be relished by seven million viewers in the hit BBC series The Canterbury Tales, but this is as nothing compared with the outrage she provoked 500 years ago.
Goya’s cheerleaders
Adrian Searle enjoys two very different approaches to a genius of Spanish art in Goya by Robert Hughes and Goya: To Every Story There Belongs Another by Werner Hofmann
A long way from home
Robert Bickers' Empire Made Me, the life story of one insignificant member of the British empire, gives a glimpse of an extraordinary world, writes John Spurling
‘I must have Prof!’
Ben Pimlott enjoys Adrian Fort's biography of Churchill's xenophobic, reactionary one-man think-tank, Prof: The Life of Frederick Lindemann
Seamus Heaney: Bags of enlightenment
Two decades ago, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes collaborated on a landmark poetry anthology. Six years ago - a year before Hughes died - they renewed their partnership. Together, Heaney says, they hoped to wake the sleeping poet in every reader, and to combine learning with pleasure
Strange bedfellows
Jad Adams learns more than he needs to know about the playwright's sex life in Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde