Sunday 20 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


Life and Lives

Taki lives the High Life

High Life

Island Bliss

Low Life

Gathering Storm

Real Life

Living in the now

Dear Mary

Your problems solved

Arts

Perfect prose

National Short Story Award (Radio 4)

Wasted journey

Free Outgoing (Royal Court), Fanshen (295 Regent St), Frozen (Riverside)

Books

A Soho stalwart

A Soho stalwart

The house that Jock built

The house that Jock built

James Fergusson reviews a history of the publishers John Murray

Style & Travel

Club class

Club class

Julia Hollander leaves her hair shirt at the departure gate

A honeymoon on horseback

Olivia Glazebrook and her husband brave the Jordanian wilderness

In this week's issue

If the liberal press is to be believed, nobody has ever been stabbed — ever

Rod Liddle imagines the hoodie at home, allegedly innocent of any wicked intent, arming himself with a Stanley knife only because of the supposed alarmism of the right-wing media

Rod Liddle

Big Brother versus YouTube: let the Beijing Games commence

Mark Leonard, Britain’s pre-eminent analyst of modern China, says the Olympic genie is out of the bottle. The prospect of global scrutiny has actually increased repression as the authorities try to stamp out dissent. But digital technology is impossible to police

Mark Leonard

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