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Anissa Helou describes tabbouleh as a "global salad" one of those dishes that can be found on menus and deli counters around the world, often in a form guaranteed to raise a few Middle Eastern eyebrows. In Europe, this generally means a herb-flecked bulgar wheat salad, which I'll happily admit I rather like

The American writer on her debut novel about weight and womanhood set in 90s Harlem, how her mothers Black feminist books changed her life and writing a work of hip-hop magic realism Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is a writer and professor born and raised in Harlem, New York. She now resides in Washington DC, where she

Marilyn Manson sits in semi-darkness and profound air-conditioned chilliness, in a suite in London's otherwise bright and temperate Metropolitan Hotel. He has made his room as tomb-like as he can, for two reasons: 1) It allows Manson to wear head-to-toe leather, even though it's an unseasonably warm week in April (outside, the streets of London

In chapter 11 of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's hero goes to the opera. As transgression and excess begin to rot that famous portrait, the piece to which he becomes obsessively drawn is Wagner's Tannhuser, the only named musical work in a passage widely viewed as a catalogue of the trappings of decadence.

It was classic Jerry Springer: sex, pain and public humiliation. But just hours later a guest was found dead, her body badly battered. And two others had disappeared. Could it be time to pull the plug on "reality" talkshows, asks Julian Borger