Scholar, gentleman, prig, spy
Miranda Carter's dispassionate life of Anthony Blunt shows how effortlessly he slipped between roles
Double agent
Hywel Williams uncovers Anthony Blunt's lives in art history and espionage in Miranda Carter's biography of the Soviet spy, His Lives
The nice man cometh
Sara Wheeler brings her Antarctic experience to bear on her biography of the reserved but passionate polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Women with rhyme, reason and rhythm
By turning men's idea of poetry on its head, women poets discovered a voice for themselves.
Wrong wars
Martin Woollacott asks if we have learned the lessons of the Balkans and the Gulf
Familiar ground
Much has changed in the 120 years since British forces last fought in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, finds Justin Cartwright, there are a number of ominous parallels.
The new testament
Eric Griffiths visits David Byrne's fresh hell of contemporary sinners in New Sins, a goofy Christian satire
‘At Leeds Poly, budgies were lined up and shot’
...Your reactions to last week's article on performance art
Ride the high country
Check shirts, stetsons and spurs... can there be anything more alienating than country music? Gary Younge, from the high-rollin' plains of Stevenage, continues our series on 'difficult' art forms
On or off the horse?
Chris Petit salutes Lee Server's Baby, I Don't Care, an account of the lazy panache of Robert Mitchum, who was finally beaten by the Hollywood system
My nerves are bad tonight
Tom Paulin welcomes a book that gives T S Eliot's tormented first wife the sympathy she deserves - Carole Seymour-Jones's Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot