Party of two
The challenges of peeling open a political marriage(6)
Monday January 23rd 2012
The American presidency
New film
The world at war
Ralph Fiennes brings Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” up to date(3)
Bibliophilia
Punches, matrices and fetishists
Those pesky e-readers have inspired a concurrent desire to protect and revere the tangible book(10)
David Hockney
David Hockney's landscapes: The forest for the trees
A not-quite great exhibition from a celebrated artist(6)
French parents
Non, non and non
A review of "French Children Don’t Throw Food: Parenting Secrets From Paris" by Pamela Druckerman(32)
American art at the Met
America the beautiful—and homogenised
What a shame about those new galleries at the Met(33)
Damien Hirst and the art market
Seeing spots, seeing red, but in the black
What to make of an artist who doesn't make(40)
Coffee in Vietnam
It's the shit
The difficult case for selling a rather rarefied brew(28)
The haj
Journey of faith
Putting on the West’s first big exhibition about the haj has been a challenge(82)
Setting a price on the future
The mathematics of markets
The formula that changed finance(22)
New documentary: "Khodorkovsky"
A martyr to the cause
A new film about an oligarch's rise, fall and public redemption(11)
Europe and Islam
Managing the future
Developing new policies is the key(53)
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Tequila
Storm in a shot glassCan a succulent be claimed as a trademark? (5)
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The T.S. Eliot prize for poetry
The (other) cocktail partyA tricky year, and another deserved win for John Burnside (1)
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New film: “The Iron Lady”
Cheekbones and chidingsA new film about Margaret Thatcher will divide audiences, as its heroine did (22)
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Michel Houellebecq's fiction
Nasty, brutish and in translationLove him or hate him, the guy is saying something (14)
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Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora, a Capeverdean singer, died on December 17th, aged 70 (12)
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A history of dieting
Binge and purgeReasons to be cheerful (18)
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Music in Vietnam
Never (sort of) mind the bollocks!Local kids are getting a chance to shake their rump (2)
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New theatre: "Seminar"
Sex and gender on BroadwayWhat to make of the possible chauvinism of a feminist female playwright (3)
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Women and Islam
God-daughtersA biography of two women whose lives have been transformed by militant Islam (68)
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The Q&A: Jonathan Galassi
Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?A conversation about publishing and poetry with the head of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (10)
Feature
Jaipur Literary Festival
Pile 'em high
Chetan Bhagat may not be the most admired of all India's English-language writers, but he has become the most popular
New theatre
The screen at the end of the world
In “Travelling Light”, Antony Sher plays the part of a lifetime
Entrepreneurs
Headbanging
A review of "World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business As We Knew It" by John Byrne
Global marketing
Local heroes
A review of "All Business is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global Virtual World" by John Quelch and Katherine Jocz
Theatre in London
An enhancement of a fantasy
A conversation with David Lan, artistic director of the Young Vic
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
Culture
Going for gold
London will have plenty of art, theatre and dance—and even a bit of competitive sport
Aesthetics and money
Fiddling with the mind
Old, expensive violins are not always better than new, cheap ones
Remembering Eve Arnold
The unretouched woman
A photographer who kept her head down and her lens focused
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