The expanse of the imagination

Martin Bramah and four fellow former Mark E Smith bandmates have used trusted techniques to make House of All’s outstanding first album

Shot From All Sides by Cormac Figgis is a rich collection of stage shots that capture the art, danger and power of live performance

Dedicated to preventing children from bolting, assistance dogs are emotional and physical lifesavers. But they are in short supply

Paris Letter: Shoddy-looking repairs reveal a living city while a Ukrainian artist makes sense out of rock-hard loaves

Paranoid Visions, The Lee Harveys and Vulpynes are cornerstones of a weekend of 350 bands. Is it a punk museum or the start of something?

Paperback review: This book eschews venom and danger in favour of good-natured, old-school humour

The ‘fête des gilles’ in the Belgian town of Binche

Douglas Coupland shines sociological light on corporate giant that cables the internet

A magnificent study of the melancholy singer-songwriter whose music has reached a new generation online

‘We played him out, following the coffin like a New Orleans funeral’

‘Take one small step and, while not quite there yet, you are certainly well on your way – an immeasurable feeling at the start of a new year’

Alain de Botton explains the thinking that prompted him to marshal leading writers into closed organisations

John Fleming, subeditor

Review: Description of our bailout malaise is lucid and detached, yet at heart sympathetic