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PECS, DRUGS AND SODERBERGH

This Season: Nicholas Barber's pick of the summer movies is "Magic Mike", Steven Soderbergh's affable tale of male strippers...

MADE FOR A CLAP-ALONG

Mood Music: the summer holidays are nearly here, and the time is right for family listening on long car journeys. Laura Barton takes the wheel...

BASEBALL IS THE BEST SPORT

The Big Question: Dan Rosenheck argues that baseball encapsulates the bulk of life's experiences...

GRAINS AND GRITS

The food in the Deep South of America is getting back to its agrarian roots, with a twist. Jon Fasman meets the people with a taste for history...

EQUESTRIANISM IS THE BEST SPORT

The Big Question: Samantha Weinberg puts the case for the sport where animals also compete... read more »
TITIAN - THE FESTIVAL

This Season: for her pick of the summer exhibitions, Olivia Weinberg goes for a celebration in dance, music and art... read more »
CRICKET IS THE BEST SPORT

The Big Question: cricket, Sambit Bal explains, combines intellect with sensory appeal, and to follow it is to be a student of life... read more »
GRAND DAYS OUT

This Season: for his highlight of the summer talks, Anthony Gardner picks the medieval backdrop of Dartington... read more »
EAST LONDON'S MOMENT

From slums to social experiments and waves of immigration, the East End has seen it all. Now it has the Olympics and a building boom. The novelist Hari Kunzru returns to see what has become of his old haunts... read more »
CROMWELL'S BEATING HEART

Six Good Books: Maggie Fergusson immerses herself in Hilary Mantel's latest and gets a reality check from Jackie Kay... read more »
ATHLETICS IS THE BEST SPORT

The Big Question: no other sport pits mind against mind and body against body quite so mercilessly. Tanya Aldred gives athletics the gold... read more »