Features

  • MR POOTS REINVENTS MANCHESTER

    What can art do for a city? The Manchester International Festival has changed the way the city sees itself. Yet the man behind it is still little-known. Isabel Lloyd watches Alex Poots in action read more »

  • SLAVES TO THE ALGORITHM

    More and more of modern life is steered by algorithms. But what are they exactly, and who is behind them? Tom Whipple follows the trail read more »

  • THE MAN BEHIND AVAAZ

    Can we change the world, one click at a time? Ricken Patel, a young Canadian, thinks so, and he has 20m followers to show for it. Profile by Robert Butler read more »

  • BACON IS THE BEST

    The Big Question: for the novelist Philip Pullman, no smell has ever been better than rashers spitting in a frying pan read more »

  • GUSTAVO DUDAMEL'S NEXT MOUNTAIN

    Gustavo Dudamel has just conducted the orchestra at the funeral of Hugo Chávez. For this profile, Clemency Burton-Hill watched him at work from LA to Milan
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  • A DELICATE OPERATION

    When it comes to fighting prostate cancer, nobody in Britain has done more than Professor Roger Kirby. So what happened when he got it himself? Simon Garfield reports from the operating theatre read more »