NEURONS V FREE WILL
The notion of free will is under attack again, this time from the advance of neuroscience. Anthony Gottlieb explains...
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CATE BLANCHETT, THEATRE BOSS
Since 2006 Cate Blanchett has been running a theatre in Sydney with her husband, Andrew Upton. Now she is returning to Europe in an Australian production of a German play. She and Upton talk to Jo Lennan ...
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CHRISTOPHER ONDAATJE'S SEVEN WONDERS
The funder of the Ondaatje prize, awarded to the book that best evokes a spirit of place, picks the highlights of his well-travelled world ...
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SUNLIGHT UNDER CRYSTALS
In our latest Snapshot, Chad Carpenter captures nacreous clouds that are 10 miles high. Rebecca Willis gives a chilly explanation ...
A VOTE FOR FASSBENDER
Many people were surprised that he wasn't nominated for an Oscar for "Shame", but Michael Fassbender's time will come. Isabel Lloyd picks his eight best roles ... read more »
ZELDA'S SUBTLE SWORDS
In his latest pick of games, gadgets and apps, Tom Standage acquires new combat skills and reads an e-book without distraction ... read more »
SEBASTIAO SALGADO'S ETHIOPIA
For our latest photo essay, Sebastião Salgado spent two months walking in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. He tells Simon Willis what drew him there ... read more »
GERIATRIC ZUMBA
It’s not easy keeping fit when you’re in your 80s, but Irving Wardle has found a way ... read more »
A BORN EXPLORER
Man in a Suit: Kassia St Clair meets Mike Horn, who swam the Amazon and circled the Equator ... read more »
PUDDLES INTO RAINBOWS
A show not to miss: Isabel Lloyd picks ballet star Adam Cooper in "Singin' in the Rain" ... read more »
EDMUND DE WAAL'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS
"The Hare with Amber Eyes" has become an international phenomenon. Fiammetta Rocco follows the author to Vienna and finds the saga continuing ... read more »
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quote "A wonderful tribute, both in tone and details. It led me to imagine unwritten Szymborska poems balancing her lifelong pleasure for cigarettes with the horrors of her fatal illness."