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Pin the blame on them
An exhibition of medals designed to dishonour their recipients shows that our current climate of indignation is part of a rich tradition of scorn and shame.
By Elizabeth Kirkwood
Blame it on the good times
Michael Jackson’s genius lay in transmuting black pop music into a global form. His tragedy was that he forgot what made him great.
Mama said knock you out
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister – and a rap record was a hit for the first time. Mark Fisher reflects on how for three decades hip-hop has provided the perfect soundtrack to the brutality of the neoliberal world-view
In touch with the elements
Primal patterns of a seemingly chaotic world come to the surface in sculpture
Revelations: How to Find God
Jon Ronson rather breezed through his sojourn among the spiritually eager
He’s just not that into you, Miss Eyre
How would the great romances of literature have fared in the self-help era?
Nothing is as it seems
The new Magritte Museum gives William Cook a fresh perspective on Brussels, the capital of surrealism
Pleasures of the flesh
A new television series encourages the nation to take up life classes. Our art critic Tim Adams does just that, and discovers that drawing the human body is a form of ritual communion in which the sitter is as active as the artist
From the NS archive: John Berger on Picasso
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing
Perspectives: Thomas Hampson, baritone, on the idea of America
Cricket's revolution
The Ashes and globalisation
Ziauddin Sardar
Move over viagra
Religion
Does God hate women?
Art
Medals of dishonour
James Macintyre
Cameron the bully?
Canada
The new dope lords
Television
Revelations
Travel
Brussels and surrealism
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