RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure

SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there

MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray

The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years

DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it

GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead

GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism