Patti Smith: punk poet queen

She was the angry, androgynous runaway who got chatted up by Allen Ginsberg and had a grand love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe. And at 66 Patti Smith shows no sign of mellowing. Simon Hattenstone spends a gothic afternoon at home with the punk legend

John Cooper Clarke, poet – portrait of the artist

'Johnny Depp owes me – he pinched my whole look in Edward Scissorhands'

Does Prozac help artists be creative?

Do antidepressants hamper the creative process, or are they the answer to tortured artists' prayers? Alex Preston recalls his experiences of Prozac and asks others how the drug affected their own work

Clampdown: Pop-cultural Wars on Class and Gender by Rhian E Jones – review

John Harris welcomes a fierce and valuable book that charts the sell-out of pop culture since the 1980s

Ziggyology by Simon Goddard – review

Simon Goddard offers a thrillingly unusual slant on how David Bowie transformed himself into the rock god Ziggy Stardust, writes Alex Larman

Ziggyology by Simon Goddard – review

The latest chapter in the history of Bowieology sets out to identify Ziggy Stardust's true antecedents and legacy, writes Sukhdev Sandhu

Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer, trans Stewart Spencer – review

This is a masterly and indeed monumental biography, some 800 pages long, a memorable portrait of the age as well as the composer, says PD Smith

On my radar: Mira Nair

The award-winning film director picks her cultural highlights of the moment, from Michael Haneke's Amour to The Book of Mormon. Interview by Corinne Jones

Twenty years after Stephen Lawrence’s murder, what’s changed?

The murder of Stephen Lawrence shocked Britain and forced the country to take a hard look at itself. On the 20th anniversary of his death we ask Robert Beckford, Helen Oyeyemi, Diane Abbott, Ashley Walters, Kele Okereke and Estelle what impact his death had on them and society

For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain

The band inspired dissidents and musicians and, a new book claims, meant more to youth in the USSR than in the west, says Ed Vulliamy

Storm Thorgerson obituary

Graphic artist considered 'the best album designer in the world'

The top five London Book Fair deals

From a Paul McCartney biography to Bill Browder's high-profile account of crossing the Kremlin, here is the business getting UK publishers excited at 2013's event

Tracey Emin launches Radio 4′s major arts series Cultural Exchange

Bernardo Bertolucci, Jeanette Winterson and Paul Weller also among 75 public figures revealing favourite works