THIS SEASON
The best things to see and hear in the next two months, from Dali in Paris to "Seven Psychopaths"—plus an intriguing new record company
INTELLIGENCE
THINKING
When obstacles are a help, by Ian Leslie
A GAME, A GADGET AND AN APP
From Minecraft to the Sonnets
FOOD
Matt Kaplan eats like a Neanderthal
THE WINE-LIST INSPECTOR
Drinking after a night at La Scala
STOVE NOTES
Simon Hopkinson on mulligatawny soup
SPORT
Robert Lane Greene tries barefoot running
THE MUSIC OF SCIENCE
Oliver Morton on the moment Plato made sense
CARS
Paul Markillie on the Range Rover story
STYLE
JEWELLERY
The turning points that enabled some of today’s jewels
APPLIED FASHION
Rebecca Willis on dressing your other half
THE LINE OF BEAUTY
A short history of the raincoat
THE SCEPTICAL SHOPPER
More than a fluffy robe? A cool look at spas
MAN IN A SUIT
A music producer wears something loud
FEATURES
NORMAN FOSTER
From the Victorians to the future, via the Gherkin: J.M. Ledgard meets one of architecture’s biggest figures
PARIS UNDERGROUND
Will Hunt spends three days and two nights exploring the underbelly of a city
AFTER THE FADE
Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich haven’t had a hit since 1970, but they still go out on tour. Charles Nevin joins them
PHOTO ESSAY
The art of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert
THE BIG QUESTION
Who has been the best of America’s 44 presidents?
CULTURE
AUTHORS ON MUSEUMS
A.D. Miller at the literary museum in Odessa
MOOD MUSIC
Trains in jazz by Richard Williams
MUSIC
The best rock concert line-ups of all time
BOOKS
Notes on a Voice: Charlotte Brontë
Found in Translation: Herta Müller’s gulag novel
Six Good Books: Maggie Fergusson on Sebastian Faulks et al
AT THE CINEMA
Tom Shone on Paul Thomas Anderson
VISUAL CV
The best of Michael Haneke
PLACES
MAIN FEATURE
The day a meteorite landed in rural Peru
GOING NATIVE
When in...Cape Town
SEVEN WONDERS
Chosen by Chris Blackwell of Island Records
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
Robert Macfarlane in the Netherlands
CARTOPHILIA
Simon Garfield on a map of American literature
THE MISSION
Will Smith becomes a weather forecaster
LETTERS
Broadmoor, upholstery, Tom Stoppard's eyes and more
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