Saturday 4 July 2009

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Liz Anderson

Liz Suggests


Jobs at Telegraph

Books

Stephen Chambers, by Andrew Lambirth

Transcontinental satires

Transcontinental satires

Jerusalem, by Patrick Neate

Nearly guiltless

Nearly guiltless

Ashes to Ashes, by Marcus Berkmann

Between cross and crescent

Between cross and crescent

The Last Crusaders: The Hundred Year Battle for the Centre of the World, by Barnaby Rogerson

Immortalised  in print

Immortalised in print

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2001-2004, edited by Lawrence Goldman

Arts

Brutal truth

Brutal truth

Personally, I felt inclined to blame it on the boogie.

Omega  watch

Omega watch

Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913–19
Courtauld Institute, until 20 September

Books

Transcontinental satires

Transcontinental satires

Jerusalem, by Patrick Neate

Nearly guiltless

Nearly guiltless

Ashes to Ashes, by Marcus Berkmann

Style & Travel

The Grand Tours<br />

The Grand Tours

Charlotte Metcalf reports on the art you can enjoy on your travels this year

In love with Aphrodite Hills

In love with Aphrodite Hills

Kate Newman relaxes in a sophisticated ‘CentreParcs’ on Cyprus


Spectator Book Club
In this week's issue

To become an extremist, hang around with people you agree with

Cass Sunstein — co-author of the hugely influential Nudge and an adviser to President Obama — unveils his new theory of ‘group polarisation’, and explains why, when like-minded people spend time with each other, their views become not only more confident but more extreme

Cass Sunstein

Who would have thought a herd could moonwalk?

The acclaimed web theorist, Mark Earls, says that the death of Michael Jackson unleashed the extremes of collective action: mass mourning and sick jokes

Mark Earls

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