In the royal archives, p57
LIFE
45 Ian Thomson Music Night at the
Apollo, by Lilian Pizzichini Arts 47 Matthew Stadlen Interview with Nicola Benedetti 48 Music Peter Phillips 50 Video art Bill Viola in
St Paul’s Cathedral Rachel Halliburton 51 Exhibitions Kenneth Clark:
Looking for Civilisation Andrew Lambirth 52 Cinema Grace of Monaco
Deborah Ross 53 Opera Dialogues des Carmélites;
La Cenerentola Michael Tanner 54 Dance Vortex Temporum; Junior
A Human Being Died That Night Lloyd Evans 57 Television James Walton Culture notes Lara Prendergast Life 61 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 62 Real life Melissa Kite 64 Long life Alexander Chancellor Bridge Susanna Gross And finaly . . . 66 Chess Raymond Keene Competition; Crossword 68 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 68 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 70 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth
Company, Dutch National Ballet Giannandrea Poesio 55 Theatre Bakersfield Mist;
Who Help to Buy helps, p32
The crowd – especially the old men – push and shove for a better view of the offenders losing their heads by the ceremonial sword Tom Stacey, p19
There is plenty of room for a book on Bach that points out, among other things, that he could be a tedious old windbag Peter Phillips, p48
I see bare bricks and I start hyperventilating. I don’t want to look at this Melissa Kite, p62
Contributors
Irvine Welsh’s books include Trainspotting, Filth and, most recently, The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins. His diary is on p. 11.
John O’Sullivan is director of the Danube Institute in Budapest and co-founder of Twenty-First Century Initiatives in Washington. He writes about Putin on p. 24.
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Jane Ridley is the author of Bertie: A Life of Edward VII. She reviews Stephen Clarke’s Diry Bertie on p. 40.
Harry Mount is the author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That. He writes about Mary Beard on p. 44.
Clare Mulley’s life of Christine Granville, The Spy Who Loved, was published in 2012. Her review of Paddy Ashdown’s The Cruel Victory is on p. 44.
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