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
THE MUSIC OF 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 meets a cider maker, a furniture designer, a sports journalist, a quantum physicist, and a model
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
Six 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
LETTERS
Crowd mentality, handwriting and Tucholsky
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