Next week

Our man to Mann
Laurie Taylor hears sociologist Michael Mann predict America's ugly future

Also
Prehistoric art: Two books reviewed by Steven Mithen
Books focus: Design and fashion
Louis Appleby, the government's mental health tsar, on the controversy over plans to lock up the mentally ill

COMING SOON
How we got into print by A. C. Grayling, John Barrow,
Fred Halliday and Niall Ferguson