Culture: Picture Books

The eye of the beholder

A coffee-table book for aesthetes: every painting referred to in Marcel Proust's epic In Search of Lost Time, in a single volume. It reveals the novelist's acute sensitivity to art

Totalitarian recall

Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State Steven Heller Phaidon, 240pp, £45

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The American scene - Blowing in the wind

John Sutherland on the flatulent pooch captivating the nation's children

Mixed race

National images - Tate Britain had an opportunity to present a revealing picture of the country. It's a pity David Dimbleby was allowed to stick his editorial oar in

Talking pictures

Hollywood: A Celebration David Thomson Dorling Kindersley, 640pp, £30 ISBN 0751346292

Picture imperfect

Sculptor, painter and writer, Brassai might have become a dilettante. But his honest gaze made him one of the 20th century's finest photographers. Tom Rosenthal remembers the man who captured the soul of Paris

Pity the Germans

Beyond the Wall: The Lost World of East Germany S Marsden and D McLaren Little, Brown, 128pp, £19.99 ISBN 0316645389 The German Century M Sturmer Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 288pp, £30

Children's books - The uses of enchantment

Fiction