The month in books
Publishers are already eying airport bookshops, but there’s nothing escapist about May’s selections
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In praise of the cliché
At the end of the day, sometimes you’ve just got to think inside the box -
Digital life
Meet the data hoarders -
You have reached your destination
Will satnav kill the London cabbies’ Knowledge? -
Food phonies
Have the foodies had their day? -
Silent artists
It’s time to celebrate the humble film subtitler -
Return of the sheriff
Eliot Spitzer, the scourge of Wall Street, crashed out of politics in 2008 after a sex scandal. Could he make a comeback? -
Love’s lustre’s lost
New history and philosophy books show how love and sex have become awkward bedfellows -
A spotter’s guide…to Martin Parr
Martin Parr is the quintessential anorak. How could he not be, raised by intrepid curtain-twitchers whose weekends were spent bird-watching at a sewage farm in Surrey? He’s gone on to collect everything from John Hinde postcards to Saddam Hussein wristwatches, but his speciality is categorising people. Sharpen your pencils and... -
Shooting star
Photographer Martin Parr is best-known for his unsparing portraits of Englishness. Is he a cultural curiosity or a talent of enduring significance?