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WHEN IN...BEIJING
Going Native: Keep your chopsticks about you. Gady Epstein shows where to eat, sleep and toboggan down the Great Wall read more » -
A WHIRLWIND PRESENTS A FIRMAMENT
This Season: Michael Church picks a group of outstanding young musicians as his classical highlight read more » -
BE YOUR OWN BARISTA
The Sceptical Shopper: Getting your fix of coffee at home can mean spending £70—or 50 times that. So where is the best value? read more » -
ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO'S SEVEN WONDERS
The African-born musician talks about the places that mean the most to her read more » -
STUMBLING OVER THE PAST
In Berlin, more and more victims of the Nazis are being remembered with Stolpersteine—brass plates, embedded in concrete, in the streets where they lived. Andreas Kluth traces the stories behind the stones read more » -
NAPOLEON NEEDS TO MOVE US
At the Cinema: sentimentality is not a flaw in a film-maker. Tom Shone argues that Kubrick’s script about Napoleon could do with more of it read more » -
BEST THINGS, WORST PLACES
Six Good Books: Maggie Fergusson recommends heart-rending tales of parental love and family history, and lessons in happiness from Guantánamo read more » -
THE BEST PHILOSOPHY IS SELF-KNOWLEDGE
The Big Question: Susie Orbach believes that by examining our feelings we allow ourselves to be open to new experiences
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THE GOOD-LUCK TORNADO
Lipsmacking: Tim Rostron keeps returning to Susur Lee's Singaporean-style slaw read more » -
MR POOTS REINVENTS MANCHESTER
What can art do for a city? The Manchester International Festival has changed the way the city sees itself. Yet the man behind it is still little-known. Isabel Lloyd watches Alex Poots in action read more »