THIS SEASON
The people making waves in the arts and science over the next two months, from Raphael at the Prado and the Louvre to the opera director David McVicar at Covent Garden and Ridley Scott in the cinema
INTELLIGENCE
THINKING
...can be a bad idea. Ian Leslie explains why
A GAME, A GADGET AND AN APP
Tom Standage starts taking the phablets
FOOD
The Dads’ Club: eating out as male therapy
THE WINE-LIST INSPECTOR
Where pours reign: Tim Atkin in Burgundy
STOVE NOTES
Simon Hopkinson on the chemistry of a Pavlova
SPORT
Happy ending? Lawrence Booth on supporting Man City
Patrick Barclay on race in football: why mention it?
THE MUSIC OF SCIENCE
Oliver Morton on a gizmo Turing would have liked
STYLE
FASHION
What decade is your body? Isabel Lloyd asks five actresses
THE SCEPTICAL SHOPPER
Harrods – now entering a different world
THE LINE OF BEAUTY
Invisible ink: what the white shirt has to say
APPLIED FASHION
Rebecca Willis on shopping with your teenager
MAN IN A SUIT
A crisp look for a stew entrepreneur
FEATURES
SOME LIKE IT VERY HOT
Creatures that thrive in extreme heat, or live deep under the seabed, have become an exciting field of science. By Bryan Appleyard
STATUS UPDATE
What happens to real life when nearly a billion people are signed up to one website? Robert Lane Greene reports on the Facebook effect
SCENES FROM A LIFE
Irving Wardle has been going to the theatre for 75 years. In this essay, he sets out what he has learnt
PHOTO ESSAY
Memorable portraits of animals by Tim Flach
CONSULTANT TO THE REVOLUTIONS
Srdja Popovic is the man to call if you want to topple a government without bloodshed. Emma Williams watches him at work
CULTURE
THE BIG QUESTION
Which is the best musical instrument?
MOOD MUSIC
Songs to revise to, by Matthew Sweet
AUTHORS ON MUSEUMS
Christopher Reid on Brancusi’s atelier in Paris
AT THE CINEMA
Tom Shone spots a new trend in blockbusters
BOOKS
Notes on a Voice: Charles Dickens, by Emma Hogan
Found in Translation: Peter Stamm’s "Seven Years"
Six Good Books: Maggie Fergusson’s pick of the new books
VISUAL CV
Bill Murray, from "Ghostbusters" to playing Roosevelt
PLACES
MAIN FEATURE
Alex Bellos goes up the Amazon in search of a high
QUARTER FINALISTS
Hotels with their own boats
SEVEN WONDERS
David Gentleman, painter and designer
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
Robert Macfarlane puts on his boots
SNAPSHOT
An atoll in the Seychelles
THE MISSION
Will Smith joins the wedding planners
LETTERS
Free will, feminism and scallions
COVER PHOTOGRAPH Tim Flach
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