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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment

In this week's Review

Robert Macfarlane responds to readers' suggestions for a library of classic nature literature; Ian Jack finds chilling echoes in a 1960s art house film, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers; Polly Toynbee considers the crippling damage inflicted on those at the bottom of the heap by social inequality; Lucasta Miller meets prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam; Caryl Phillips celebrates Luther Vandross; AS Byatt admires a study of Velásquez while Michael Holroyd is on a go slow. Read it all here from tomorrow.

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