from the magazine
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GAINED IN TRANSLATION
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013: Lydia Davis is a writer’s writer with some distinguished fans. In 2009, she spoke to Emily Bobrow about language, precision and Proust read more » -
CORMAC McCARTHY'S BLEAK ROAD
Landscapes of the Mind: in a new series, Robert Macfarlane roams fictional worlds, starting with “The Road” read more » -
THE MUSEUM OF HEARTBREAK
Authors on Museums: they could easily have been depressing, but Aminatta Forna, author of "The Memory of Love", discovers in Zagreb that the mementoes of the lovelorn are intriguing read more » -
DO INSECTS WEIGH MORE THAN US?
The Music of Science: The other day Oliver Morton came across a nifty—a neat little fact. It turned out to lead to a neat big thought read more » -
THE SISTERHOOD OF FOOD
My Madeleine: asked to name a dish that brings back memories, Sadie Jones picks three, from disparate places, with one common thread read more » -
WHEN IN...BEIJING
Going Native: Keep your chopsticks about you. Gady Epstein shows where to eat, sleep and toboggan down the Great Wall read more » -
A WHIRLWIND PRESENTS A FIRMAMENT
This Season: Michael Church picks a group of outstanding young musicians as his classical highlight read more » -
BE YOUR OWN BARISTA
The Sceptical Shopper: Getting your fix of coffee at home can mean spending £70—or 50 times that. So where is the best value? read more » -
ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO'S SEVEN WONDERS
The African-born musician talks about the places that mean the most to her read more » -
STUMBLING OVER THE PAST
In Berlin, more and more victims of the Nazis are being remembered with Stolpersteine—brass plates, embedded in concrete, in the streets where they lived. Andreas Kluth traces the stories behind the stones read more »