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Intelligent Life | Contents, Autumn 2007

11 Editor's letter

13 Notes on contributors

THIS SEASON | THE BEST ENTERTAINMENT THIS AUTUMN

14 Seurat’s drawings in New York

15 Vikram Seth talks about sailing for Greenland; Halo3 assaults your hard drive

18 Guy Taplin’s driftwood birds in print; Philip Roth’s new novel; Fiction at a glance

20 Philip Glass revisits the American civil war; Renaissance Siena in London; Art at a glance

23 Anton Corbijn’s first movie; Film at a glance; V.S. Naipaul’s new memoir; Non-fiction at a glance

24 “The Lives of Others” on dvd; The Police on tour; Gigs and Albums at a glance

INTELLIGENCE | HEDONISM WITH ITS HEAD ON

26 Thinking | Anthony Gottlieb rescues Epicurus from 2,000 years of mud-slinging

28 Fashion | The last act of the ready-to-wear fashion circus, by Tina Gaudoin

32 Fashion | Dress sense: the art of the buttonhole

35 Green | Bloggers swap notes about living off-grid. Robert Butler listens in

40 Wine-list inspector | Tim Atkin sizes up the 1,000-wine tome at London’s Restaurant Gordon Ramsay

42 Shopping | It’s July and the shops are stocking up for Christmas. Amid the angels and the ice-cream, Jackie Hunter tests the merchandise

46 Shopping | Five of the world’s best€¦patisseries

50 Insider trading | Oliver Rowe explains how to buy wild mushrooms

52 One perfect€¦chair: Grete Jalk’s Danish masterpiece

53 Giving | New Philanthropy Capital rates charities as if they were businesses. Does it work, asks Matthew Bishop?

56 Gadgets | Blu-ray or hd dvd? Nick Valéry on the videophiles’dilemma

60 Design | 100 years of Toblerone, by Stephan Somogyi

61 Cars | Nick Valéry finds that Honda’s new fuel-cell car comes with a home hydrogen kit

62 Sport | The rugby World Cup, Rob Smyth says, has already gone wrong

FEATURES

66 The great classical piano swindle: The critics thought Joyce Hatto was a genius. The trouble is, her recordings were fakes. Rod Williams tells the whole story

76 Photo essay: La Chasse. The grandeur--and the gore--of a French hunt. Photographs by Mike Goldwater

89 Your money, his life: How much should you leave to your child? Emma Duncan talks to people on both sides of a modern dilemma; a guide to giving

98 Light with soul: Bulbs are inefficient; fluorescents are dirty. Anne Schukat explains how LEDs will light up your life--beautifully

106 Profile: Molecular gastronomy’s chief engineer, Dave Arnold is part chef and part scientist, part engineer and part food historian. Jon Fasman meets a culinary inventor and drinks his gin

CULTURE | SMART ARTS

116 Books | The queen is riding high--as a fictional character. Jasper Rees looks at what Alan Bennett and others have done with Her Majesty

118 Film | The visual cv: Matthew Sweet picks Meryl Streep’s greatest roles

121 Theatre | "Marianne Dreams" may be the scariest story ever written. Jenny Turner considers its journey from page to play

123 Art | Rothko’s "White Center" sold for $72.8m, double the previous auction record. Robert Cottrell tries to work out why

127 Music | The playlist: Tim de Lisle picks a dozen tracks for your iPod

OUT THERE | AWAY FROM HOME

128 Snapshot | The Bamiyan Buddhas

130 Something to Declare | Travel in brief. A weekend in Liverpool, and more

132 Being There | Tokyo. Dominic Ziegler shuns the tower blocks for the side-streets, in search of old Japan

135 Feature | Ngong is a patch of ancient forest caught between a smart Nairobi suburb and Africa’s biggest slum. J.M. Ledgard explores it

140 Seven Wonders | Henri de Castries, head of Axa, picks the things worth travelling for

THE MISSION | WILL SMITH LEARNS A NEW SKILL

142 First up, the five-string banjo

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