Music to our eyes

It's the detail that makes the story ... Joe Boyd on Studs Turkels's collection of musical interviews, And They All Sang.

Going the whole hog

Sue Birtwistle gobbles up the story of Bill Buford's transformation from writer to chef, Heat.

We are not amuth’d

When it comes to literary criticism, why is there so much bad writing about good writing, asks John Sutherland.

The line of duty

Book of the week: In The Plimsoll Sensation, Nicolette Jones provides Samuel Plimsoll with the monument he has long deserved, says Geoffrey Moorhouse.

Ben and his boys

Lucasta Miller applauds Britten's Children, John Bridcut's sensitively-handled exploration of Benjamin Britten's obsession with adolescents.

Love in the library

Patricia Fara enjoys David Bodanis's Passionate Minds, a vivid evocation of Emilie du Châtelet, and her lover, Voltaire.

Manet and the history men

Tom Lubbock on an art book that loses sight of its own purpose, Ross King's The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and an Artistic Revolution.

Laird of the marshes

David Morphet admires Rory Stewart's attempt to bring order to occupied Iraq as told in Occupational Hazards

The dream sale for Jung scholars

An extraordinarily rich collection of manuscripts around the work of pioneering psychologist Carl Jung, including working papers, unpublished lectures, letters, drawings and photographs, will be sold at Sotheby's today.