DENNIS BROE searches the literary canon to explore why a duplicitous, lying, cheating, conning US businessman is accepted as Scammer-in-Chief

MIK SABIERS raises a glass of Lambrini to commentary, diatribes, punk rock riffs, some pontification and a whole lot of fun

BRENT CUTLER unpicks the complex social relations imagined in a novel about the builders of Stonehenge

SUSAN DARLINGTON laments a version of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes that is unable to solve its own problems

New releases from The Thumping Tommys, Dan O’Farrell and The Difference Engine, and Sean Taylor

For his study of anti-Muslim Muzaffarnagar Riot, HENRY BELL applauds Joe Sacco for a devastatingly effective combination of graphic novel and investigative journalism