Books & arts
7 March 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Kirsten Tranter’s A Common Loss
Books & arts
27 February 2012
From the archive | Fifty years after the publication of Jane Jacobs’s landmark book, we’re still trying to find our way around the city, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
1 February 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Matías Néspolo’s Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
Books & arts
12 January 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s
Books & arts
8 December 2011
If it reminded us of nothing else, the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth underlined his extraordinary energy
Books & arts
2 December 2011
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
Books & arts
1 November 2011
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, I Curse the River of Time
Books & arts
3 October 2011
How do we want to be seen as we get older, asks Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
24 August 2011
Books | Richard Johnstone considers the lobster
Books & arts
2 June 2011
Richard Johnstone considers the art of screen adaptation – with and without a literary source
Books & arts
4 May 2011
The Internet Movie Database changed the way we think about films, and now it’s influencing the industry itself, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
1 April 2011
What we are looking for when we wander through IKEA stores?
Books & arts
23 November 2010
Great typefaces combine the banal and the beautiful, according to one designer. Richard Johnstone reviews an engrossing account of their vast and ever-increasing variety and uses
Books & arts
26 October 2010
Perhaps Ferran Adrià – the chef who redefined the restaurant dinner as a series of culinary tweets, usually thirty or more of them in a sitting – really is the…
Essays & reportage
23 October 2008
Is the energy, liveliness and to-the-pointness of text-messaging already history, asks Richard Johnstone