In essays covering Samuel Beckett to Tacita Dean, the writer reflects on irresistible artworks
What the frieze editors have been reading this week
The long-overdue publication of Susan Sontag's collected short fiction
Emily Witt's latest book offers a new approach to sexology
Journals, poems, biography and ‘direct implication’– the year in books
Do philosophers understand contemporary art?
What are the reasons for television’s uneasy relationship to art?
Literary highlights of 2008 included a biography of Theodor Adorno, a new novel by Philip Roth and short stories by Ali Smith
