Zayana Zulkiflee
The other half
For better or worse, first ladies and first men have the opportunity to be the softer face of an administration. Who gets it right?
Thirsty work
Long a refuge for passing idle hours in the sun, Bali is now proving a lively launch-pad for a new crop of drinks businesses. We meet the entrepreneurs.
Travel Briefing
Whether you're dreaming of burying your toes in the sand off the east coast of Mexico or exploring an old Portuguese olive farm, this month's new openings will have you itching to book.
Bureaux de change
Improve your productivity by sprucing up your place of work – well, that’s the theory anyway. Whatever happens, it will look sharper.
Space race
We rarely notice street furniture, yet the design of chairs, bins and bike racks has a profound effect on our cities. We meet the designers enhancing our urban mood and surroundings.
Food & drink
Food finds from Atlanta and Amsterdam, plus how to make a crab and quail egg salad.
Quality of Life Survey: Metropolis now
You want a city that’s well run, delivers on life’s essentials and is fun too? This is our ranking of the top 25 in the world.
Shop, read, listen
Folksy plates, charming ceramics and the sharpest of knives, plus a rooftop escape, the best in books and the tastiest tipples for your drinks cabinet.
Travel
From Catskills lodges welcoming creative New Yorkers back to nature, to restored Japanese farmhouses and a eucalyptus-scented Portuguese hideaway — independent hotels are rewriting the rules of escape.
