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Lorraine Pascale: 'I absolutely eat what I cook'
The former model and founder of Ella's Bakehouse talks to Rachel Cooke
Agenda p3
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Anyone got a good story – and the nerve to tell it?
Kate Kellaway joined storytellers from all walks of life who are seizing the chance to tell true tales to strangers
Agenda p4
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Kelly Reilly: 'I'm not an exhibitionist'
Kelly Reilly, the star of Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion, talks to Ursula Kenny about sexy skirts, student protests and being a policeman's daughter
Agenda p5
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The 10 best self-help gurus
Agenda p6
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Mike Skinner: Why I'm killing off the Streets
With his fifth, reportedly brilliant, album due out next month, the charismatic 32-year-old talks candidly about music, fame and fatherhood – and why he hopes this record will be his last. By Caspar Llewellyn Smith
Features p8
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Detroit in ruins
Gallery (16 pictures):
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city
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Detroit in ruins: the photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
In downtown Detroit, the streets are lined with abandoned hotels and swimming pools, ruined movie houses and schools, all evidence of the motor city's painful decline. The photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre document what remains of a once-great city – and hint at the wider story of post-industrial America, writes Sean O'Hagan
Features p12
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Anna Nicole: the opera
Anna Nicole Smith was the waitress who became a Playboy pin-up and billionaire's wife, before dying penniless at 39, the bloated laughing stock of reality TV. Her life was a soap opera. And now composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has turned it into a real one. Peter Conrad reports
Features p16
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Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast
Critics p25
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Love & Other Drugs – review
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The Big Sleep – review
Critics p26
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5 Broadgate, London – review
Critics p28
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Games preview for the New Year
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Rewind radio: Jagger's Jukebox; Keith Richards at Home; Johnnie Walker With the Kinks
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Games hardware: Nintendo 3DS
The 3DS is likely to be the must-have gadget of 2011, writes Chris Schilling
Critics p30
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Pulse by Julian Barnes — review
Books p31
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Books in 2011 – from the new Alan Hollinghurst to David Foster Wallace's unfinished The Pale King
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From Moscow to Cuba and Beyond by Jeanne Sutherland – review
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Palo Alto by James Franco – review
Books p32
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David Vann: 'I was filled with rage. For three years I said my father had died of cancer'
Traumatised by suicide and murder in the family during his childhood, David Vann spent 20 years with a 'feeling of doom' hanging over him. As his second novel, Caribou Island, is published, he tells Rachel Cooke how writing saved his life…
Books p34
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Prose by Thomas Bernhard — review
Bernhard's neuroticism and his loathing of the everyday are palpable in these newly translated short stories, writes Mina Holland
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This Bleeding City by Alex Preston — review
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Grandville Mon Amour by Bryan Talbot – review
Books p37
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Observer sudoku
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9
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Observer killer Sudoku
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within grey lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by grey lines