Table Talk
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Heaven in a tin
Improvise in the kitchen, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
Buck fizz
Patrick Galbraith describes the exhilaration of hunting
Marathon maniac
Nick Cohen ran and ran and did himself no good in the process
A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
Terroir to his toes
Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots
Burgundy bargains
Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business
French with tears
Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results
Not drinking but drowning
Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future
Less austerity, more pizazz
Grand opera was long thought quite dead but is suddenly rearing its shaggy head again
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
The real rogue state
Wherever the outrage is about the success of Sinn Fein, there hasn’t been a word from Brussels
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
An American icon is born again
Kanye West was mocked for rediscovering faith, but he has genuine concerns about the modern world he helped fashion
Hidden London
Hidden London’s evocative photos of dereliction will fascinate commuters and tourists alike