Can we ever trust instinct?
Individual trading is hazardous to people’s wealth(16)
Wednesday February 8th 2012
Quick Study: Daniel Kahneman on economic decision-making
Contemporary art
Cosmic queen
Yayoi Kusama is painting more intensely than ever, as can be seen in a major travelling retrospective of six decades of her work(2)
The Q&A: Nick Cohen
An unprecedented age of censorship
On the English judiciary, the first amendment, workplace dictatorships and the problem with Wikileaks(26)
New documentary: "The City Dark"
Everything is illuminated
It may not make the case that life before electric light was somehow superior, but this film is charming all the same(1)
The future of Europe
A declinist’s case
A review of "After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent" by Walter Laqueur(11)
Remembering Raoul Wallenberg
A necessary example of tolerance
A moving tribute at a time of growing anti-Semitism in Hungary(36)
Revolution in Egypt
Tahrir Square, one year on
A review of "Cairo: My City, Our Revolution" by Ahdaf Soueif(2)
India Art Fair
A change is gonna come
Signs of promise for India's nascent arts scene(3)
Queen Elizabeth II
Royal bow
Why the queen has to be seen to be believed(63)
The Design Museum in London
Come for the building, stay for the toasters
Terence Conran unveils plans for a new and bigger space(5)
The business of Broadway
What does it mean to put on a good show?
A day-long conference considers the problems facing the Great White Way(8)
Spider silk at the V&A
A tangled (and exquisite) web they wove
Bizarrely beautiful unwearable textiles(16)
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Ralph Fiennes on "Coriolanus"
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Winter Antiques Show
Americana for saleSome nice surprises at an annual festival (2)
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Film awards
Phew, the Oscars are still irrelevantAfter the excitement of last year's contest, it is almost a relief to see the awards return to uninspired form (13)
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The American presidency
Party of twoThe challenges of peeling open a political marriage (6)
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The Q&A: Mayra Andrade
Cape Verde’s music lives onCesária Évora's vital legacy (4)
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Culture
Going for goldLondon will have plenty of art, theatre and dance—and even a bit of competitive sport (0)
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Etta James
Ass-whuppin' 'til the very endA soulful legacy (4)
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Philip Larkin
Library bookReading between the lines (0)
Feature
Frederick the Great
Popular, controversial, with some daddy issues
A year-long celebration of the Prussian king's tricentenary
Popular music in Korea
A Jimi Hendrix stymied
The dictatorship snatched away his best years, but it is not too late to hear him play
New thriller
Wreathed in smoke
With "The Golden Scales" Parker Bilal has written a journey to the heart of a city
Art in Saudi Arabia
The picture is changing
Saudi artists and comedians are enjoying a thin breath of freedom
The Q&A: Drake Doremus
Film-making without a script
A conversation with the director of the new film "Like Crazy"
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We've read them all
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The haj
Journey of faith
Putting on the West’s first big exhibition about the haj has been a challenge
Synaesthesia
Smells like Beethoven
Using the word “note” to describe an odour may be more than just metaphor
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