The Pope versus the Vatican: George Weigel on why Benedict needs a Roman revolution

Can Israel survuve? Howard Jacobson and A.B. Yehoshua debate a new wave of hatred

Spring Books supplement: 16 pages of the best of new and old

Adam Smith and the recession: Karen Horn and Tim Congdon

Gertrude Himmelfarb on Lionel Trilling's moral imagination

Peregrine Worsthorne / Joshua Rozenberg / Selina Hastings / Fiona Pitt-Kethley / Jonah Goldberg / Paul Goodman / Denis Macshane / John Gross / Daisy Waugh / Sarah Butterfield / David Womersly / Ian Bostridge / Roger Scruton / Keith Ward

The new face of Africa: Dambisa Moyo tells Richard Dowden that aid is a disaster

Frederic Raphael: The Reader is Holocaust hokum

Overrated: Samantha Power, Hilary's bête noire

Jonathan Foreman visits the Mumbai slums featured in Slumdog Millionaire

James Shinn on a film that gives hope to Afghanistan

Niceness: Kenneth Minogue says there's too much of it

Ed Smith / Kathryn Hughes / Philip Mansel / Adam Zamoyski / Caroline Moore / George Walden / Michael Weiss / Robin Aitken / Minette Marrin / Razeen Sally / Myron Ebell / Ellen Alpsten

Obama's worst nightmare: Con Coughlin on Ahmadinejad

Roy Foster salutes Conor Cruise O'Brien

The End? Philip French and Peter Whittle on the movies

Spinning Dave: Is Cameron's crony up to the job?

In Hiding: Exclusive interview with Robert Redeker, France's Rushdie

Ruth Padel / Kathryn Hughes / Tibor Fischer / Michael Gove / Lesley Chamberlain / Jeremy Jennings / Anthony Loyd / David Quinn / Bruce Boucher / Jamie Whyte / Neil Scolding / John Cottingham / Daisy Waugh / Douglas Murray / Noel Malcolm

Uncle Vlad: Edward Lucas on Germany's romance with Putin's Russia

Jonathan Foreman: The Siege of Mumbai

Susan Hill: hi sue can u xplain yr bk, i dont understnd it

Ian Bostridge and Tim Blanning: From Wagner to Winehouse

Vanessa Neumann: Chávez is ruining my beloved country

Francesca Segal / Victoria Glendinning / Melanie McDonagh / Tim Congdon / Alasdair Palmer / Jonathan Mirsky / John Stein / Douglas Murray / Nick Cohen

Comedy and Humour: Simon Hoggart / Joseph Epstein / Alexander Chancellor