CONTENTS SUMMER 2009

FROM THE EDITOR

CONTRIBUTORS

LETTERS
 

THIS SEASON

A selective guide to summer, featuring Antony Gormley, Zaha Hadid, Brian Friel, Sarah Waters, Wimbledon, and books and DVDs for the holidays

INTELLIGENCE

HISTORY | The biggest year of all, by Andrew Marr and five Economist writers

CARS | Beyond cruise control: Paul Markillie on a car that drives you         

ZEITGEIST | The Union Jack is back in favour with designers--in different colours

WINE | Tim Atkin on Hotel du Vin, where even the rooms have wine labels

GIVING | The film star who is trying to introduce philanthropy to China    

FOOD | How ethical is your sushi? We take a marine biologist to Nobu

    RePasts: Jon Fasman on syllabub, as found in Pepys

    Home smoking: Christopher Hirst lights up

SPORT |  Why Australians are good at cricket: mate, it's the look in their eye

GREEN | The Cambridge don who has put numbers on our energy needs
 
WELLBEING | You've got to move it, move it: how community dance is taking off

GAMING | GTA on DS? OMG. Tom Standage tries it
 

STYLE

MAIN FEATURE | Savile Rogues: Michael Bywater talks to five non-conformist tailors

LINE OF BEAUTY | Drapery, from a charioteer in Delphi to Sophia Kokosalaki

DRESS SENSE | Linda Grant on a great British tradition: the frump

SHOPPING | The Sceptical Shopper examines trainers for men

WOMAN IN A SUIT | Kate Thal, sommelier with a conscience

 

CULTURE

ART | Authors on Museums: why William Boyd loves the Leopold in Vienna

BOOKS | Tom Shone on what happens when writers sober up

MUSIC | The Playlist: Irving Wardle choose piano pieces

VISUAL CV | Damon Albarn, the rock star with three bands, by Laura Barton
 

PLACES 

MAIN FEATURE | Road to nowhere? Rebecca Willis tours the Rockies in an RV

QUARTERS | Hotels with spectacular gardens

BEING THERE | An expat’s view of Edinburgh, by Jackie Hunter

SEVEN WONDERS | Tom Porteous of Human Rights Watch on the places he loves

SNAPSHOT | Dam and be published: a village on the Euphrates goes under

 

THE MISSION | Will Smith becomes a living statue
 

FEATURES

COVER STORY | EXODUS
An ambitious study of our DNA is showing that everybody's ancestors came out of Africa. J.M. Ledgard reports from the Rift Valley in Kenya

THE MARTIN PAPERS
Martin Amis's next novel is autobiographical and set in the 1970s. Julie Kavanagh, who lived with him then, talks to Amis and their old friends to compile a memoir of an affair

PHOTO ESSAY: BERLIN REVISITED
It's 20 years since the wall fell. Brian Harris, who was there to witness it, returns to photograph the new Berlin

NO PASSES?
What happens to general knowledge when all the answers are available at the click of a mouse? Brian Cathcart asks some experts

TAKING LIBERTIES
Britain, which once prided itself on its sense of individual freedom, is now a surveillance society. But is the rest of Europe any better? Charles Nevin reports from Germany and Romania

COVER PHOTOGRAPH AND IMAGE MANIPULATION:  Diver Aquilar

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