Family Histories

Proof Marks

The Importance of Having Editors

Off Target

Trick or Treat?

The Dog Ate Their Homework

Contributors' Excuses

August Kleinzahler at the Bookshop

Tom McCarthy’s ‘Agamemnon’

With Friends Like These

In a Large Box

War Spam

The Procrastinator’s Manifesto

Equal Before the Law

Berlusconi's Lost Immunity

Robin Robertson wins Forward Prize

Hilary Mantel wins Booker Prize

Intimidation

Policemen on a Train

Coach’s Paradox

Booker Biz

The Man Booker Prize Shortlist

I have a list!

Top Communists on Twitter

How many troops?

'Our Afghan Policy'

Quiet Zones

blocks his ears

Ian Hacking wins Holberg Prize

Congratulations

Which Planet?

Barney Frank and the Dining-Room Table

Richard Poirier 1925-2009

Photojournalism

The Times and the Far Right

Attack of the Mauve Stingers

gets stung by a jellyfish

Antics

The OuLiPo Challenge