Rejoice for Utopia is nigh!
Celebrating the birthday of a very important but not very good book(15)
Wednesday December 28th 2011
Science fiction
The Q&A: Terence Conran
Make things with your hands
A conversation with a pioneer of contemporary user-friendly design(8)
Remembering W.G. Sebald
An evening of lamentations
What a sad and odd cult he has created(3)
George Whitman
A bibliophile in Paris
The man behind the Shakespeare and Company bookstore liked to say that all humanity was his teacher(7)
Van Gogh: A Life
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
A new biography casts light on a lonely, bad-tempered alcoholic, who bit the hands that fed him(9)
Sex and advertising
Retail therapy
How Ernest Dichter, an acolyte of Sigmund Freud, revolutionised marketing(24)
Remembering Christopher Hitchens
Crying freedom
Rare, provocative and often larger than life(107)
Botticelli and his bankers
Gold, God and forgiveness
Two exhibitions of 15th-century painting highlight what drove the Renaissance(18)
Musical history
Seven seconds of fire
How a short burst of drumming changed the face of music(26)
The future of film
Difference engine: Going to the movies again?
With the 3D fad fizzling, Hollywood needs some innovation—and quick(18)
Amos Oz's fiction
Universal stories from a unique place
A rare writer who is more attuned to all people than a people(6)
The Q&A: Jarreth Merz
What democracy in Ghana looks like
A conversation with the director of the documentary "An African Election"(2)
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Online gaming
Jedi v OrcCan one of the most expensive games ever made finally steal World of Warcraft's crown? (38)
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Women and art
What to make of an art show dedicated exclusively to womenIs it a good or bad thing? (18)
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Seasonal giving
Keeping up with the SantasHow Christmas spending gets competitive (18)
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Why China fails at football
Little red cardThe telling reasons why, at least in football, China is unlikely to rule the world in the near future (31)
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All the world’s a game
Video games will be the fastest-growing and most exciting form of mass media over the coming decade, says Tim Cross (56)
Feature
A Downing Street story
The game
A.D. Miller, our former political editor and one of our resident novelists, returns to his old hunting-ground. The newspaper and characters are imaginary. But quite a lot of the rest is realistic
New fiction
Persuaded
P.D. James has written a thrilling new episode in the afterlife of Jane Austen
Religion in America
The faith (and doubts) of our fathers
What did the makers of America believe about God and religion? The subject is stirring the very rancour they wanted to avoid
Johnson
Our blog on the use (and abuse) of language in politics, society and culture around the world
Game theory
Our blog about the politics, economics, science and statistics of the games we play and watch
Highlights
The psychology of service
Why have servants?
It’s more complicated than just getting the chores done
Belgian beer
Brewed force
How a small, unremarkable country came to dominate the world of beermaking
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