Thursday 28 August 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


Style and Travel

James Rubin indulges a fantasy: staying in a top London hotel

Acropolis now

Acropolis now

Henry Sands says Athens’s new museum is missing its Marbles

Sitting on a rocket

Sitting on a rocket

Henry Sands goes powerboating in Malta

Home On The Grange

Home On The Grange

Matthew Dennison experiments with self-catering on a royal scale

Under the volcano

Under the volcano

Oscar Humphries explores Naples and the Amalfi coast

Arts

Perennial Cézanne

Perennial Cézanne

Andrew Lambirth on the artist’s profound and far-reaching influence

Too much information

Too much information

Blood and Guts (BBC4)

Books

Life and Letters

Allan Massie remembers Simon Gray (1936-2008)

The great deception continues

The great deception continues

Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of New China by Philip Pan

Style & Travel

The king-makers

The king-makers

James Sherwood apprises the Savile Row tailors who dress royalty

Déjeuner sur l’herbe

Déjeuner sur l’herbe

Lindy Woodhead is nostalgic about picnics

In this week's issue

Reading on the web is not really reading

Susan Jacoby laments the intellectual crisis now gripping America and says that the torrent of digital infotainment is threatening basic literacy and news knowledge

Susan Jacoby

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