‘The liberal elite hasn’t got a clue’

As a member of the Manhattan intelligentsia, novelist Tom Wolfe seems a lonely defender of George Bush's conservative values. But, he tells Ed Vulliamy, he's bewildered by a sex-mad society and tired of being lectured to at dinner parties. So is he voting for Dubya tomorrow? He's not quite telling.

Beauty and the feast

Nigella Lawson conjures up the food we dream of cooking in Feast, says Matthew Fort.

Thoroughly modern Moma

In the 1930s, Alfred Hamilton Barr began to collect cheap, unfashionable artefacts for a new Manhattan collection. It went on to became the most significant museum of the century. As the famous Moma gallery prepares to reopen its doors, leading critic Robert Hughes reflects on how one man introduced modern art to the world.

The road to themed pubs and Paris chic

The road Orwell called the rue du Coq d'Or in Down and Out in Paris and London, where he lived a semi-destitute existence in 1928, has been transformed into a pedestrianised tourist trap.

Emigré Jew’s wartime book takes France by storm

Sixty-two years after its author died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, a remarkable and previously unpublished wartime work by an emigré Russian Jew in France has taken the world of publishing by storm.

Novel fugitive

Leader: Radovan Karadzic was not present at the launch of his new novel in Belgrade on Monday. But the fact that he has been able to publish a book does not inspire confidence that Nato and the Bosnian Serb police are doing enough to bring him to justice.

Pirates hasten García Márquez book launch

Fans of the Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez have waited more than a decade for his latest work of fiction. Now, thanks to bootleggers, the wait has been shortened by a week.

Hope Hale Davis

Obituary: American author who defied social conventions with her feminist, leftwing beliefs.