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Culture

Culture

Film, music and book reviews plus our culture editor Robert Bound looks at the value of good criticism

  • Issue #51
  • 10 min read
Five books arranged on a wooden surface: Jonathan Lethem's The Ecstasy of Influence, Religion for Atheists, The Train in the Night, Suddenly a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret, and What are Universities for? by Stefan Collini.
Design

Room to improve

As many predict a tough year ahead, we look at the managers, designers and concepts transforming the hotel sector and rethinking the whole concept of hospitality for today’s informed guests.

  • Issue #30
  • 22 min read
Room to improve
Affairs

Here’s to the future

We are entering a new era with a new president and an economy in flux. Here five leading thinkers, including Alain de Botton, look at how the world will change in 2009.

  • Issue #19
  • 18 min read
Here’s to the future
Affairs

Thinking cities

Six leading writers, thinkers and academics – including Alain de Botton and Richard Florida – give their view on the state of today’s cities, and their vision of the urban future.

  • Issue #15
  • 30 min read
Thinking cities

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