CONTENTS JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012

FROM THE EDITOR

CONTRIBUTORS

MASTHEAD

LETTERS

 

THIS SEASON

The pick of the next two months in the arts: David Hockney takes over the Royal Academy, the Indian subcontinent buzzes with literary festivals, and two names head for stardom: the actress Felicity Jones and a rock duo called Chairlift

 

INTELLIGENCE

THINKING
Serendipity and why you can’t just leave it to chance

A GAME, A GADGET AND AN APP
Tom Standage finds poetry on the iPad stove notes Simon Hopkinson on beef stroganoff

DRINK
Move over, Carlsberg: the gypsy brewers are coming

THE WINE-LIST INSPECTOR
Tim Atkin on Italians in New York

HEALTH
How to keep fit at 82, by Irving Wardle

NEW COLUMN SCIENCE
Oliver Morton on how Mars has changed

CARS
The acceptable face of the three-wheeler

 

STYLE

DESIGN
Benches, bridges and now buses: the craft of Thomas Heatherwick

APPLIED FASHION
Rebecca Willis on Big Hair

THE LINE OF BEAUTY
Fur, both real and fake

THE SCEPTICAL SHOPPER
Is perfume worth its price tag?

MAN IN A SUIT
Mike Horn, adventurer and motivator

 

FEATURES

1962
It was a year of dramatic events, and now it’s a setting for fiction. Fifty years on, Matthew Engel dissects 1962

THE BIG QUESTION
What was the greatest invention of all? Six writers give their answer

LIFE AND FATE
Edmund de Waal, the potter who became a bestselling author, now finds the saga continuing. He talks to Fiammetta Rocco

PHOTO ESSAY
Sebastiao Salgado captures a place that would have looked the same 2,000 years ago

60 YEARS IN ONE JOB
Queen Elizabeth II has managed it, but who else has? Charles Nevin investigates

 

CULTURE

AUTHORS ON MUSEUMS
Julian Barnes visits Sibelius’s house

MUSIC
The Playlist: songs from 1972 at the cinema  Ian Jack on Ralph Fiennes’s “Coriolanus”

BOOKS
Notes on a Voice: William Shakespeare

Found in Translation: Robert Walser’s not-quite-stories

Eight Good Books: Maggie Fergusson’s choice   

VISUAL CV
Michael Fassbender, tipped for an Oscar nomination

 

PLACES

MAIN FEATURE
Fishing in Dalmatia, by James Hopkin

QUARTER FINALISTS
Hotels with their own ice rinks

BEING THERE
Life in Madrid, by Fiona Maharg-Bravo

SEVEN WONDERS
Christopher Ondaatje, businessman and philanthropist

SNAPSHOT
The southern lights: an Antarctic sky

 

THE MISSION
Will Smith is Santa’s little helper

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