Biography booksReviewApart from his books, Albert Camus also liked writing love letters: he was an obsessive womaniser whose constant affairs drove his second wife to mental breakdown. Olivier Todd's new biography reveals all, says Peter LennonWhen Olivier Todd once asked Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus' old Saint Germain des Pres intellectual sparring partner, which of Camus' books he liked best he said: 'The Fall, because Camus has hidden himself in it.'
Hear the new Rolling Stones single Doom and Gloom | Music
Music blogMusicHear the new Rolling Stones single – Doom and GloomThe Stones debuted a new track on Radio 2 this morning. Here's your chance for a repeat listenReading on mobile? Listen here.
The Stones are back – and they're rocking surprisingly hard. Doom and Gloom, one of two new songs on their forthcoming greatest hits compilation, Grrr!, due on November 12. Producer Don Was has emphasised the heavy side of the band, while sprucing up the rhythm section behind the guitars of Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.
Ive fallen in love with a colleague but Im married with children
Ask Annalisa BarbieriFamilyI can’t stop thinking about her – what should I do? Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI’m 40 and married with three children. I have a loving wife and a career that, while it doesn’t pay that much, keeps me happy. However, right now I’m deeply conflicted and at my wits’ end. I’ve fallen deeply in love with an office colleague.
She’s my age, apparently has a boyfriend and I actually hated her at first.
Mark Carson murder: jury finds New York man guilty of anti-gay hate crime | New York
New York This article is more than 7 years oldMark Carson murder: jury finds New York man guilty of anti-gay hate crimeThis article is more than 7 years oldElliot Morales was accused in the shooting death of Carson, a gay man killed on 17 May 2013 after a brief verbal dispute in New York’s West Village A New York jury found Elliot Morales, the man accused of a hate crime for the shooting death of Mark Carson, guilty of all charges on Tuesday.
The 50 biggest films of 2012 in pictures | Film
The 50 biggest films of 2012 – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From the blockbusting (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Dark Knight Rises) to the ludicrous (Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator), here's our pick of the next year in film, featuring three starring roles for Leonardo DiCaprio, Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina and post-franchise efforts from Twilight's Robert Pattinson and Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe Catherine Shoard, Xan Brooks, Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes
Parental alienation and the unregulated experts shattering childrens lives
Rights and freedomFamily lawIn English and Welsh custody cases, a finding that one parent has poisoned a child’s mind against the other can be crucial, even if there are questions over the accountability of those making the decisions
Questions over use of ‘psychological experts’ in parental alienation cases Amanda wept as she recalled her children being removed from her home several years ago – her youngest clinging to her as they were dragged away screaming.
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal review
BooksReviewWith the panache of a born storyteller, Ben Macintyre explores what drove Kim Philby, the charming master of duplicityThe man with a secret is the man with power, Aristotle observes, and no life could illustrate the truth of the maxim more emphatically than that of Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby, pupil of Westminster School and Cambridge graduate, clubman, cricket enthusiast, bon viveur and tireless party-thrower, ace undercover agent and, as Ben Macintyre would have it, great betrayer.
Country diary: life below zero for nettles in the serious moonlight
Country diaryPlantsWenlock Edge, Shropshire: The leaves look like mountain ranges cut by river valleys seen from an aeroplane
It is not yet dawn and the nettles are frosted. The moon, high among bruised clouds, is bright even with almost half sliced off; “a joyless eye,” Shelley wrote, “that finds no object worth its constancy” (To the Moon). Although it drains the blood of autumn colours from the trees, moonlight reveals their darker character; they whisper with a sound like drizzle and waking wings.
David Crosby: co-founder of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash a life in pictures | Music
David Crosby: co-founder of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash – a life in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The outspoken and legendary US songwriter – inducted twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – has died aged 81, after a long illness
Legendary US musician David Crosby dies aged 81 Steph Harmon
Fallout 4: how to build the perfect settlement
Fallout 4Surviving in the post-apocalyptic wasteland is no longer enough – you also need a nice place to live. We can help you build it
In a lot of ways Fallout 4 feels very familiar to its predecessor – you’re still wandering a ruined US shooting mutants and collecting stuff. However, one significant improvement is the ability to tidy up parts of this disorderly wasteland and make them liveable. Popular with players who like simulation and resource management games, and compulsory if your chosen path through the main plot involves siding with the Minutemen, settlement building is a major part of Bethesda’s newest role-playing adventure.