CONTENTS AUTUMN 2009

FROM THE EDITOR 

CONTRIBUTORS    

LETTERS ETC

THIS SEASON
A selective guide to autumn, featuring Van Gogh, Muriel Spark, Lorrie Moore, John Simm, and two star turns by young actresses in British films


INTELLIGENCE

REHABILITATION | When prisoners take up needlework, by Maggie Fergusson

FOOD | Christopher Hirst shops with a chef

       RePasts: Edith Wharton   

HISTORY | Does history work on television? Andrew Marr gives an insider’s view   

HEALTH | The war reporter who is fighting an incurable disease  

GREEN | Should you give up flying? Robert Butler hasn’t, but he’s thinking about it   

THINKING | What the web—and the electronic reader—do to factual accuracy 

SPORT | Ed Smith on Michael Owen and the dangers of personal narrative   

CARS | The beginning of the end for the gearbox 

GAMING | The new Wii: will it rock you?   

EDUCATION | Cambridge students are now taking drugs for their concentration   

WINE-LIST | Tim Atkin on the Paris restaurant that has 14,000 wines in its cellar   


STYLE 

MAIN FEATURE | The defining style of this decade: what was it, exactly?   

LINE OF BEAUTY | Sisters, from Greek myth to the Mitfords and two Ralph Lauren models    

DRESS SENSE | Linda Grant on why some style tribes last better than others  

SHOPPING| More than a container: finding the best designer bags    

MAN IN A SUIT | Wells Tower, short-story writer   


CULTURE

ART | Authors on Museums: Allison Pearson loves the Musée Rodin           

BOOKS | A writers’ writer: Lydia Davis profiled by Emily Bobrow    

MUSIC | The Playlist: the Beatles’ best album tracks   

FILM ETC | Tom Shone wonders who needs masterpieces   

VISUAL CV | Daniel Day-Lewis, from “A Room with a View” to “Nine”   


PLACES

MAIN FEATURE | Jasper Rees goes in search of his Welsh roots    

QUARTERS | To infinity and beyond: hotels with rooftop pools    

BEING THERE | An expat’s view of Toronto, by Tim Rostron  

SEVEN WONDERS | Rachel Portman, Oscar-winning composer,    

SNAPSHOT | Where eagle-handlers dare   

THE MISSION | Will Smith learns to drive...a tank

 

FEATURES

COVER STORY | BRAND ME
Personal branding, once for celebrities, is now common among business people. Peter York traces how, over 30 years or more, we came to market ourselves

FORMATIVE YEARS
A generation ago, after centuries of segregation, boys’ public schools in Britain began to take girls. Early guinea pigs Rebecca Willis, Daisy Goodwin and Tracey Camilleri tell their stories

MEMOIR | OLD FRIENDS
When Harold Pinter was taking the theatre by storm, Irving Wardle was theatre critic of the Times. He writes about a long bittersweet friendship

PHOTO ESSAY | DANCE AWAY
Ukraine is where ballet dancers come from. Simon Crofts goes backstage with the Lviv ballet to capture the real lives behind the swanning around

TWILIGHT OF THE POLYMATH
It is getting harder to know a lot about a lot. Edward Carr tracks down some people who do

COVER PHOTOGRAPH AND IMAGE MANIPULATION:  Diver Aquilar

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