TOPSY-TURVY TOM
The Visual CV: in a career spanning half a century, Sir Tom Courtenay has gone from a new-wave warrior to a grand old man, via a fool or two (usually called Norman). Irving Wardle picks his best roles on stage and screen
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SEAMUS HEANEY'S SEVEN WONDERS
The poet's choice of favourite places shows a fondness for the classical and the monumental
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THE MISSISSIPPI MEANDER
Cartophilia: a ghostly map takes Samantha Weinberg to the river, and shows her where it no longer flows
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In our latest issue we published letters about Norman Foster, the Easterlin paradox, Henry Clay Frick and the diet of Neanderthals
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A HYMN TO LIPIDS
Lipsmacking: in the first in a new series about outstanding restaurant dishes, Isabel Lloyd relishes what Ollie Dabbous achieves with an egg read more »
ART, FREEDOM AND COGNAC
Found in Translation: 50 years ago Vasily Grossman, author of "Life and Fate", spent two months in Armenia. Simon Willis finds it time well spent
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WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN
The Who, currently on the road in America, have just announced a British tour too. In 2011 Pete Townshend spoke to Simon Garfield about life in a "celebration machine"—and the moment that was nearly his downfall read more »
JOIN AMERICA'S REVOLUTION
A Game, a Gadget and an App: Tom Standage free-runs in colonial Boston, weighs up the new Kindle against the iPad mini, and remixes Brian Eno read more »
THE DEMOCRACY OF LOVE
Darcy at 200: "Pride and Prejudice" reaches its double century today. In the last in our series about Jane Austen's hero, we trace authors' reactions from Walter Scott to Helen Fielding read more »
BLOOD ON THE SPATS
The Passenger: in a new series, Jonathan Meades considers the architecture of cars. He begins with the Tatra T87—the car of choice for lesbian vampire movies read more »
MORMON CONQUESTS
This Season: for her theatre highlight, Isabel Lloyd chooses a joyous new musical about America that has "bonkers specifics" read more »
Comment of the moment
quote Although the Mississippi has run its current course for most of the last century, shored in by man-made levees, it will not be possible to straitjacket the world’s fourth-longest river for ever.