Bully for food
Judi Bevan loses her focus as she surveys the rise of the modern supermarket in Trolley Wars, says James Buchan.
A life’s work
Michael Coveney enjoys Jack Rosenthal's everyday stories of abnormality in his reflexive screenplay autobiography, By Jack Rosenthal.
Ex-laureate condemns classics-free GCSE
Children's author condemns "dumbing down" of English literature teaching after it emerges teenagers can get a GCSE in the subject without reading the classics.
In search of Eden
Jill Sinclair takes a botanical trek with Jamaica Kincaid in Among Flowers.
Andrea Dworkin
Obituary: Feminist writer and tireless campaigner against pornography and the violent oppression of women.
Cook the books
Jamie Oliver embarrassed ministers into stumping up the cash for decent school meals. Now we need somebody to do the same for the school book budget, writes John Crace.
Parents told to learn lesson from Jamie Oliver on school books
Parents should fight for more cash to be spent on classroom books in a campaign on the lines of Jamie Oliver's drive to improve school meals, the children's laureate says today.
It’s a shore thing
Kathryn Hughes finds surprising modern twists in Bella Bathurst's The Wreckers, a tale of those who plunder ships they have lured to their doom.
How Dante beat Galileo to law of motion by 300 years
The poet Dante Alighieri knew about modern physics as well as sophisticated rhyme. An Italian physicist reports that some 300 years ahead of Galileo, the great poet of hell, purgatory and heaven described a physical law of motion now known as Galilean invariance.
A Prospero for our time
Michael Kustow's biography charts Peter Brook's transformation from precocious master to itinerant sage. Simon Callow pays homage.