Letters: Algeria’s aborted spring and Taliban truths
Algeria is neglected or traduced in our media. So it was welcome to see such a generous coverage of the elections in your paper. However, your article (Poverty and fraud, so why no Arab spring?, 10 May) ignores Algeria's aborted spring in 1988. There w...
Letters: Norwich accolade
On Thursday last week, Norwich was made a Unesco City of Literature, the only English city with this accolade and only the second city in the UK after Edinburgh. The award recognises both the historic depth of writing in Norwich and the city's contempo...
Letters: Browning’s bicentenary is worth celebrating
John Dugdale is quite right to point out that Browning has been overshadowed by Dickens in their bicentenary year (Review: The week in books, 5 May), but this is not for lack of attempts on the part of the Browning Society and others to mark the occasi...
Notes & Queries: Are snooker players more skilful than pool players?
Plus: Austerity philosophy – Popper or Socrates? Life-cycle of a tree; Formula One on the M1Snooker tables are much bigger than pool tables, so are snooker players much more skilful than pool players?The best pool players are very skilful but I'd arg...
Letters: Iran book fair shows a thirst for knowledge
Your article on Tehran International Book Fair (A turn-up for the books, 3 May) is a clever mix of criticism and admission that the Islamic Republic of Iran is promoting books and learning, albeit within the confines of the Islamic revolution's paramet...
Letters: Women’s archive is as relevant today as the struggles it records
Thank you for raising awareness regarding the crisis facing the Women's Library (Women's archive hunts for a saviour, 1 May). Over 50 years ago the Guardian's Mary Stott was instrumental in founding our organisation – the National Women's Register
Letters: Tagore’s legacy is political as well
You are right to note the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet Rabindranath Tagore but neglect his politics in your editorial (The poet at 150, 30 April). For example, he repudiated his knighthood in protest against the Amritsar massacre in 1919,...
Notes & Queries: Is Voltaire the best philosopher for these austere times?
Plus: The film that got the Little Big Horn right; angels dancing on a pinhead? It's more complicated than thatI want to read a philosopher to help steer me through these dark days of austerity. Who should it be?I can think of no one better than Voltai...
Letters: A shaming betrayal of cultural heritage
The threat to the Women's Library – a unique collection on women's struggle for equality – is, as Caroline Davies has so eloquently outlined (Women's archive hunts for a saviour, 1 May), an act of cultural vandalism. The library has a national and ...
Letter: ‘John Golding inspired huge loyalty from his colleagues and students’
A shy, humble but enormously intelligent and scholarly man of great integrity, John Golding (obituary, 13 April) inspired huge loyalty from his colleagues and among the many students he taught for some three decades. For art historians like me at the C...
Gillian Darley on John Golding: ‘He said that I could, and should, write’
John Golding was the most inspiring of an outstanding group of teachers in my undergraduate years, from 1966 to 1969, at the Courtauld Institute, and also by far the most human, inviting us to have a drink at the flat in Battersea, south London, that h...
Notes & Queries: Avengers v Justice League of America – who would win?
Plus: How close was Britain to a revolution? The secret of French vegetables; Is Pearl Harbor the most historically accurate film?The Avengers Assemble film is coming soon. But could the Marvel comics team beat DC's Justice League of America? A difficu...
