20 OCTOBER 2007, page 48

The Golden Writer

Doris Lessing was last week awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Philip Hensher traces the career of 'one of the greatest novelists in English'. Doris Lessing's Nobel win......

Gary Dexter

THE MUSHROOM BOOK (1972) by John Cage John Cage was the composer of 4'33", the piano performance piece that consists of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of complete silence — except for......

The Head Would Like To See Us. Now, Inside: Before

The Head would like to see us. Now, Inside: before the day is done. But we are having too much fun Out here. We will not listen now, Now smoke obscures the pot-holed yard. This......