Contents Autumn 2010

FROM THE EDITOR  

CONTRIBUTORS

LETTERS  ETC

 

FEATURES

EYES ON THE PRIZE
Hilary Mantel, author of the Man Booker’s biggest hit, on life as a winner – and a loser

OMG ETC
The age of the acronym: Lane Greene and Jonathan Meades pinpoint an international trend

SHADOW BOXING
The boxers of Kibera, Nairobi: a photo essay by Jehad Nga

ALIVE AND GLOWING
The art of stained glass is safe in the hands of Tom Denny. Ann Wroe watches him at work

ANTS AND US
E.O. Wilson, the world authority on ants, has turned to fiction to show us how much they matter. J.M. Ledgard visits him at Harvard

 

THIS SEASON

Your guide to the next three months in the arts, featuring Canaletto, Derek Jacobi, a word with Angela Gheorghiu, and the centenary of the man behind the Mistral typeface

 

INTELLIGENCE

THINKING  How sceptical should we be about science? Anthony Gottlieb decides

GREEN  Robert Butler on the campaign to save Venice, one pizza at a time

IMAGE  Something is happening with David Cameron’s hair

FOOD  Bread of heaven: Christopher Hirst holds a tasting

             Stove Notes: Simon Hopkinson’s tips for shepherd’s pie

THE WINE-LIST INSPECTOR  Tim Atkin finds what he’s been looking for in Bordeaux

SPORT  Can you have too much teamwork?

CARS  Coming soon: electric cars with range. Paul Markillie tries one

GAMING  Look, no controller: Tom Standage on the Microsoft Kinect 

 

STYLE

DESIGN  Is minimalism over? Stephen Bayley sums it up

THE SCEPTICAL SHOPPER  Our undercover reporter checks out men’s watches

APPLIED FASHION  Rebecca Willis applies herself to layering 

THE LINE OF BEAUTY  Soldiers’ things: the military look down the ages

MAN IN A SUIT  A rug designer in some nice threads

 

CULTURE

AUTHORS ON MUSEUMS  Andrew Motion on the magic of manuscripts

MUSIC  The Playlist: nine of the best new songs

               Stardom by stealth: Hazel Sheffield tracks the rise of The xx

BOOKS  Notes on a Voice: how to write like V.S. Naipaul   

               Found in Translation: a superb set of novellas by a young Italian

               Autumn reading: Maggie Fergusson’s pick of the new books

VISUAL CV  The best of Philip Seymour Hoffman, an actor without fear

 

PLACES

MAIN FEATURE  The peripatetic parent: a memoir of family life on the move

SEVEN WONDERS  Alex Ross, classical-music critic, on the places that sing to him

BEING THERE  Life in Berlin, by an Economist correspondent

THIS QUARTER’S QUARTERS  Hotels for wine lovers

SNAPSHOT  Retirement activities in South Korea: diving for seafood

 

THE MISSION  Will Smith becomes a tattoo artist for a day

 

 

COVER PHOTOGRAPH  DIVER AGUILAR

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