Who makes it? Who owns it? Should we believe it? With Phillip Knightley on his life in journalism; Lynda Schuster on a reporter killed by an anti-tank mine – her husband; Zoë Heller inside tabloid television; David Xiao on personal losses in the Kobe earthquake; Tom Pilston’s visual vocabulary of selling murder. Plus fiction by Paul Theroux and the hilarious début of Paul Beatty.