FROM THE EDITOR
CONTRIBUTORS
MASTHEAD
LETTERS
THIS SEASON
The people making waves in the arts over the next two months, from a bright young choreographer to a Scottish percussionist and the prolific film-maker Michael Winterbottom, tying up the different strands of his career
INTELLIGENCE
THINKING
Where neuroscience leaves free will, by Anthony Gottlieb
STOVE NOTES
Don’t call it mash: Simon Hopkinson on mashed potato
FOOD
What’s in a restaurant name? Christopher Hirst finds out
THE WINE-LIST INSPECTOR
Pack an iPad: Tim Atkin in Buenos Aires
THE MUSIC OF SCIENCE
Oliver Morton on the beauty of plankton
LANGUAGE
The rise of the word “dude”
CARS
Can there ever be a green Ferrari? Paul Markillie in Maranello
SPORT
Why comebacks are hard in Formula 1
A GAME, A GADGET AND AN APP
Tom Standage loses his mind on the PS3
STYLE
JEWELLERY
Men are slowly warming to it. John Paul Flintoff reports
THE SCEPTICAL SHOPPER
Egyptian cotton: possibly from Romania
THE LINE OF BEAUTY
Redheads, from Lady Hamilton to David Bowie
APPLIED FASHION
Rebecca Willis on the tricky business of the clear-out
MAN IN A SUIT
The brains behind the Affordable Art Fair
FEATURES
COVER STORY: CATE BLANCHETT
She’s the Hollywood leading lady who escaped to run a theatre with her husband. Jo Lennan meets them, while David Thomson asks what might have been
THE BIG QUESTION
Which is the best language to learn, for an English-speaker? Robert Lane Greene and five other writers cast their votes
MANAGING YOUR MUSIC
To own, or not to own? That is just one of the questions. Simon O’Hagan tries everything from vinyl to Spotify, for a week each
PHOTO ESSAY
America’s industrial ruins, captured by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
MR JUSTICE
Tom Bingham was a giant of the law, but he remained little known, even when Tony Blair’s warmongering turned him into an unlikely radical. A memoir by his son-in-law
CULTURE
AUTHORS ON MUSEUMS
John Carey on the Ashmolean, Oxford
NEW SLOT: MOOD MUSIC
Songs to raise the spirits
AT THE CINEMA
Ian Jack on “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
BOOKS
Six Good Books: Maggie Fergusson’s choice
Notes on a Voice: David Foster Wallace
Found in Translation: the surreal world of Etgar Keret
VISUAL CV
Julia Roberts, about to return as the Wicked Queen
PLACES
MAIN FEATURE
Life on a Kenyan river, threatened by a super-port
QUARTER FINALISTS
Hotels for hypochondriacs
SEVEN WONDERS
Tom Stuart-Smith, landscape designer
BEING THERE
Life in Oslo, by Simon Reid-Henry
SNAPSHOT
Beauty and ghosts at Glencoe in Scotland
THE MISSION
Will Smith tries being a cheerleader
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