Enzo Siciliano

Obituary: Writer and progressive cultural force in Italy.

Thongs, implants and the death of real passion

Lap dancers, porn stars, big-lipped, zeppelin-breasted exhibitionists - meet the new role models for young British women. And, says feminist writer Ariel Levy, whose book Female Chauvinist Pigs has caused a storm since its publication last August, women are not just accepting this supersexualised culture - they are fuelling it. But are they really to blame? She talks to Kira Cochrane

Barbara Epstein

Obituary: The dynamic founding joint editor of the New York Review of Books, acknowledged as the leading intellectual journal of the English-speaking world, has died of lung cancer aged 76.

Let’s hear it for the boys

Dave Hill: Is a new book of chap-like pursuits good clean fun, or does it hark back to a nostalgic, colonial past?