'Darwin's entire works go online' by Ian Sample, The Guardian, 19 October 2006.

"Ted Hughes's wife, Sylvia Plath, famously killed herself. But what of his mistress, who four years later did the same?" 'Written out of history', The Guardian, 19 October 2006.

For the reading list: A Lover of Unreason: The Biography of Assia Wevill by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev. Published by Robson Books, price £20.00.

"But the novelties come thick and fast, beginning (so far as I was concerned) with the suggestion on page 10 that Dante and other poets he associated with in Florence as a young man might have given their visionary and dreamlike imaginings a boost with the stimulus of love-potions. These herbal stimulants, cannabis perhaps, may, it turns out later, be what Dante is referring to in the comparison, near the start of Paradiso, between his own “trans-human” experience and what Glaucus felt “on tasting of the herb” (nel gustar dell’erba) which made him into a sea-god. As Reynolds explains at greater length when she comes to the final vision of the Godhead, mystics did often use drugs of one kind or another in conjunction with fasting and meditation in their pursuit of visionary illumination. There is no reason, she argues, why Dante should not have done so too."
'Dante on drugs' by Peter Hainsworth, reviewing Dante: the poet, the political thinker, the man, Shaw (ed.), Tauris, 2006. Times Literary Supplement, 18 October 2006.

"Female crime writers should give thanks that [Agatha Christie] vanished, even if it's really no mystery at all" 'Agatha, we all owe you' by Frances Fyfield, The Guardian, 17 October 2006.

'A small-sized history of fashion in the movies' by Sheila Johnston, Telegraph.co.uk, 16 September 2006.

"What drove two artists to track down every stuffed polar bear in Britain?" 'Bear-faced chic of Arctic giants' by Benjamin Secher, The Telegraph, 14th October 2006.

'Horniman Museum searches for missing polar bear' by Melina Greenfield, 24 Museum, 11 October 2006.

The Great White Bear at the Horniman Museum, 21 October 2006 - 25 March 2007.

"Visitors to Tate Modern will be able to try out five giant slides that have been unveiled at the London gallery."
'Tate Modern unveils giant slides', BBC News, 9 October 2006.

"Poetry is perennially on the ropes, a pensive, esoteric artform in a world absorbed by novelty and new media. But Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says it can resonate with all ages and an unlikely ambassador for the young is a certain Pete Doherty."
'Chatter and verse' by Sean Coughlan, BBC News Magazine, 9 October 2006.

Pete Doherty's favourite poets:
''Emily Dickinson? She's hardcore'', The Guardian, 3 October 2006.

'Power and Taboo: Polynesian gods at the British Museum', 24 Hour Museum, 2 October 2006.

Power & Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific, British Museum, 28 September 2006 - 7 January 2007.

'Robert Frost Poem Discovered Tucked Away in Book' by Andrea Seabrook, NPR, 1 October 2006.

Review of Rodin Exhibition:
'At the Royal Academy' by Peter Campbell, London Review of Books, 28(19).

"As the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union nears, an academic has fanned controversy by claiming the 'parcel of rogues' did not sell Scotland down the river." 'Betrayed? No, Scots wanted the Union' by Lorna Martin, The Observer, 24 September 2006.

'Unveiled: early copy that reveals Mona Lisa as her creator intended' by Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 23 September 2006.

'How lust shaped the art of Rodin' by Richard Dorment, The Telegraph, 19 September 2006 - includes slideshow and podcast.

"None of Leonardo's inventions ever took off, but an exhibition of his scientific drawings reveals how his extraordinary mind worked"
'New light on a high-flying genius' by Richard Dorment, The Telegraph, 19 September 2006 - includes slideshow.

"Martyrs and lovers, kissers and thinkers, the good and the damned ... Rodin's exaggerated figures tell us what it is to be human."
'Your own flesh and blood' by Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 19 September 2006.

'Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design' by Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 14 September 2006.

'A walk in the dark' by Jonathan Jones. The Guardian, 17 August, 2006
- Hogarth Trail.

'Ted Hughes, the domestic tyrant ' by David Smith. The Observer, 10 September 2006.