Society & Culture > Media, arts & sport
Günter Grass and the German neurosis
19 Apr 2012
Maciej Zurowski looks at a literary scandal and the bourgeoisie's attempt to cope with its past
Class struggle in the house
26 Jan 2006
Dave Craig assesses George Galloway's three weeks of 'reality' TV
Tragedy, hoaxes and Zionism
26 Jan 2006
Norman Finkelstein Beyond chutzpah: on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history Verso 2005, £16.99, pp332
Less than gorgeous
12 Jan 2006
Is it possible for working class politicians to utilise an established cultural form, designed for a completely different purpose, in order to bolster an oppositional message? Lawrence Parker takes a look at Galloway in the Big brother house
Domination theology
12 Jan 2006
Paul Greenaway reviews Richard Dawkins's The root of all evil? (Channel 4, Monday January 9 and 16, 8pm)
Special effects imitation
05 Jan 2006
Jeremy Butler is not impressed by the remake of the universally celebrated film 'King Kong': it lacks symbolism and deeper meaning
Comforting old haunts
05 Jan 2006
Lawrence Parker takes a closer look at Montague Rhodes James, whose ghost stories will have enlivened many comrades' Christmas
Optimism and escape
15 Dec 2005
Jeremy Butler reviews The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, which has led to the opening of a new front in the war of words between christianity and its critics
The Best of times
01 Dec 2005
Lawrence Parker remembers George Best
Three activists
17 Nov 2005
Christopher Mitchell G8: can you hear us? Tuesday November 15, BBC4, 9pm
Cloth crap?
10 Nov 2005
Lawrence Parker confesses to liking Trinny and Susannah's TV programme What not to wear
Surfing the Red Planet
05 Feb 2004
Phil Hamilton reckons that we'd be better of making Earth a red planet than travelling to the other, more distant, one
Mission Earth
15 Jan 2004
George W Bush is reportedly going to use his 'state of the nation' address on January 28 to announce plans to establish a permanently manned base on the moon some time over the next eight to 15 years, but what about the Earth? Jack Conrad takes apart the lunar madness
Fantasy and extermination
15 Jan 2004
Jem jones reviews: Peter Jackson (director), JR Tolkien, 'The lord of the rings - Return of the king', general release
Are you sitting uncomfortably?
15 Jan 2004
Zoà Simon reviews: Peter Hall (director), 'Happy days', by Samuel Beckett, The Arts Theatre
Memorabilia, not analysis
15 Jan 2004
James Bull reviews: Reds! exhibition, People's History Museum, Manchester