CONTENTS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011
FROM THE EDITOR
CONTRIBUTORS
MASTHEAD
FEATURES
A ONE-MAN MARKET
How did Andy Warhol become so huge? And is he worth it? By Bryan Appleyard
THE BIG QUESTION
The second in our series looks at what was the best time, and place, to be alive
PHOTO ESSAY
Mist, from Chicago to New Zealand, photographed by Steffen Schrägle, with words by Robert Macfarlane
HANDWRITING: AN ELEGY
As more and more of us tap out our words on a keyboard, handwriting is a dying art. Ann Wroe celebrates it
A WHIM OF IRON
John Lloyd, the thinking person’s television producer, profiled by Charles Nevin
THIS SEASON
The pick of the next two months in the arts, from Diego Rivera’s murals in New York to the new Photographs Gallery at the V&A in London, plus the up-and- coming theatre director Sam Gold and the return of Tom Waits
INTELLIGENCE
SPORT Ultra, the sport for runners who find marathons too short
FOOD Mrs Beeton’s cookbook is 150. Christopher Hirst dusts it off
THE WINE LIST INSPECTOR Tim Atkin on restaurants with women chefs
STOVE NOTES Simon Hopkinson on bolognese
CARS When big cars have babies, by Paul Markillie
THINKING What crowds do to individuals, by Ian Leslie
GOING GREEN Robert Butler signs off with a look at the state of play
STYLE
APPLIED FASHION Why we wear black, by Rebecca Willis
THE LINE OF BEAUTY Muses through the ages
THE SCEPTICAL SHOPPER Posh paint: is it worth it?
MAN IN A SUIT An architect with a penchant for art
CULTURE
AUTHORS ON MUSEUMS Ali Smith goes back to Capri
MUSIC Playlist: songs to learn the guitar, by David Sinclair
AT THE CINEMA Ian Jack on “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
ART A close look at Leonardo’s other woman – “Lady with an Ermine”
BOOKS Notes on a Voice: T.S. Eliot, by Emma Hogan
Found in Translation: a novel about Argentina’s Dirty War
Eight Good Books: Maggie Fergusson’s pick of the season
VISUAL CV Kate Winslet, soon to be seen in “Carnage”
PLACES
MAIN FEATURE Mexico’s underground lakes: Tom Wainwright dives in
QUARTER FINALISTS Hotels with sightseeing on site
SEVEN WONDERS The mountaineer Reinhold Messner
BEING THERE Robert Cottrell on moving to Riga
SNAPSHOT A glimpse of Russia’s poorest republic
THE MISSION Will Smith learns to knit
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