Sunday 20 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


Style and Travel

John Torode takes the healing waters at Wiesbaden and Baden-Baden

A honeymoon on horseback

Olivia Glazebrook and her husband brave the Jordanian wilderness

Electric Fethiye

Fethiye, Turkey

Stalk this way

South Luangwa National Park, Zambia

Return to Rennes

Rennes, France

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

Holidays: the ninja way

Holidays: the ninja way

Matthew d’Ancona’s young sons show him a good time in Cyprus

Club class

Club class

Julia Hollander leaves her hair shirt at the departure gate

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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