HOW TO MANAGE YOUR MUSIC
Some of us still have shelves of it, some download it, others stream it online. Simon O'Hagan spends a week with each of the main ways of consuming music in 2012...
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KENYA'S SECRET RIVER
The Tana is a river even most Kenyans have never seen. And now its ancient way of life is under threat from a super-port. J.M. Ledgard finds glimpses of paradise in its chocolate waters...
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OSLO TAKES A YEAR
Being There: Simon Reid-Henry on day-to-day life in a city that changes drastically from season to season ...
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FROM GERE TO GRIMM
Julia Roberts is the biggest female star of the last quarter-century. Matthew Sweet picks her eight best roles ... read more »
ALPHABET SOUP
Restaurant names are becoming more complicated and enigmatic. Christopher Hirst asks the experts what’s going on... read more »
OFFBEAT IN ISRAEL
Found in Translation: Simon Willis picks Etgar Keret's "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door", a surreal and subtle collection of stories by Israel's most unusual writer ... read more »
THE BEAUTY OF PLANKTON
Some people love watching birds, but Oliver Morton would rather follow James Lovelock's example and look at microbes ... read more »
MR JUSTICE
Lord Bingham, who died in 2010, was a colossus of the law. In this memoir, his son-in-law, the MP and writer Jesse Norman, recalls a man who had no airs or graces—and plenty of quirks ... read more »
MANHATTAN MEMES ON CAMERA
This Season: Cintra Wilson applauds a new documentary about a fashion photographer with an incorruptible eye...
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LATIN IS THE BEST LANGUAGE
For Intelligent Life's editor, Tim de Lisle, the best language to learn is one that has hardly any direct use...
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Comment of the moment
quote Demographic growth in Africa means there are now more babies born each year in Francophone African countries than in all of the European Union. The future of the French language is in Africa