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Issue: October 2012
Legends of the Urban Landscape
A provocative new book by Jonathan Meades asks us to reassess the value of the under-appreciated metropolitan environment
Simon Heffer
Architecture
Culture & Anarchy
Falstaff’s Sack
Shakespeare's Falstaff — suspicious of the "sober-blooded" — is veritably rhapsodic about the empowering virtues of Andalusian sherry
Saintsbury
Food
Literature
Wine
The Art of the 64 Squares
While not all artists are chess players, all chess players are artists. So said Marcel Duchamp, a mean player himself
Dominic Lawson
Art
Chess
Underrated: Chris Woodhead
The iconoclastic former Chief Inspector of Schools understood the dangers of state control.
Anthony O'Hear
Education
Underrated
Overrated: Fiona Millar
The indefatigable enemy of education reform is making the job of free school champions easier
Toby Young
Education
Overrated
Tiptoeing in the Mecca Ballroom
Tom Holland's film on the origins of Islam deserves praise for not shying away from controversy
Nick Cohen
Screen
TV
All Pout and No Clout
Joe Wright's Karenina is well-scripted but too stagey and his Anna lacks depth
Peter Whittle
Film
What Are Big Girls Made Of?
Two new plays and one classic depict young women who are mad, bad and dangerous to know
Anne McElvoy
Theatre
A Mania For Nymphs
Peter Lely's underrated pastorals and mythologies are erotic delights for the connoisseur
Michael Prodger
Art
Ballet Lessons For the Orchestra
Classical music must follow the example of an art form that has survived by extending its range
Norman Lebrecht
Music
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board
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