Fighting, fornication and fiction
Gore Vidal
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Fingerprints of the Bard
Shakespeare's Language
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How Milton made the Fall a decidedly non-English event
Literary Imagination
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It didn't happen one night in Leningrad in 1945
The Guest from theFuture
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Kipling's something of a shadow
Rudyard Kipling
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Literary sense left for political points
The Politics of Jane Austen
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Orient your thoughts
Temenos Academy Review
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Poet with a passion for absinthe and a young Pole
Madder Music, Stronger Wine
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Rerouting the line from Pope to Shelley
Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture - The Making of Percy's 'Reliques'
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Shifting sands of Arabic prose
Night and Horses and the Desert
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The man in the heavy boots and eye shadow
Mikhail Kuzmin
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Higher channels
John Davies surveys the broadcasting schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Channel 4's new Sunday-night series The Day the World Took Off (8.00) is an interesting attempt to do...
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When did the rot set in?
When the police need a time of death for a decomposing corpse, they call entomology professor M. Lee Goff. Tim Cornwell reports on a growing academic field Insects and homicide have a long and...
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Restricted to men of 'taste and education'
A Victorian gentleman's collection of phalluses sounds intriguing, right? Laura Thomas explains why curator David Gaimster (right) is determined to prevent the break-up of the collection kept in...
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Can vote, won't vote
Is Britain facing a collapse of democracy? As fewer and fewer people turn out to vote, Paul Whiteley outlines a nationwide programme launched to find out why Last month's election for London's mayor...