Table Talk
A real taste of the sea
Forget hoary folk tales and savour plump herring at its best, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The end of the road
Nick Cohen has adopted a new workout: wrestling with a novel
Elephants in the Zoom
Claudia Savage-Gore
blames the tutors for the darlings’ home- schooling problems
Take the slow train
Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines
Busy doing nothing
Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business
Let’s call it a wrap
Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
Rites of spring
The roar of the mower is a sign of life, says Hephzibah Anderson
Splendid isolation
Patrick Galbraith laments the increasing loneliness of rural life
The pleasures and the pain
Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
