Recently added articles from The Independent on Sunday (London, England):
Mayhem in Mayfair
Oct 05, 2008; MATTHEW BELL ... Parties Once it was enough for a nightingale to sing in Berkeley Square.These days the efforts of a lone songbird are consideredinsufficient entertainment for a lavish charity ball of 850 guests,tickets 700 per head. So for this year's Berkeley Square Ball, heldin marquees in ...
Paris gets a Starck transformation
Oct 05, 2008; KATE BURT ... Bites Parisian dining may never be the same again, thanks to the newPhilippe Starck-designed Mama Shelter (pictured), the first hiphotel/eatery to open in the gritty, urban 20th arrondissement. Moreunusual than the location, though, is the staff: forget thestereotypical sniffy ...
Why I love...
Oct 05, 2008 ... Name Inbali Iserles Occupation Children's author Passion Crackingconundrums They creep inside your brain; subvert your expectations;tantalise and mock you with effortless irreverence. There is much toadmire in riddles. Like a good story, you can't sleep until you knowthe ...
Rise of the style flick
Oct 05, 2008; RHIANNON HARRIES ... Fashion Paris is a city synonymous with fashion and cinema, so it wasfitting that Paris Fashion Week kicked off with a mini film festivalhighlighting the increasingly interesting relationship between thetwo. Held at the prestigious Jeu de Paume arts institute, the ...
Film lovers need rotten tomatoes
Oct 05, 2008; TOBY YOUNG ... Culture As a one-time film critic who has just co-produced a movie, I'mgoing to be monitoring the reviews of How to Lose Friends & AlienatePeople very carefully. I will be particularly anxious about thosereviewers whose judgement I respect. However, I won't attach that much ...
Gerda Taro
Oct 05, 2008; RHIANNON HARRIES ... Close-up Exposed at last: the tragic tale of a pioneering femalephotojournalistAll photography is a form of editing. By pointing a camera in aparticular direction, a photographer selects a version of reality topresent to the world. It is intriguing to imagine, then, what ...
Flip chart
Oct 05, 2008; ARCHIE BLAND ... This year's dismal Emmys were only saved from total ignominy bythe anarchic presence of Ricky Gervais. Now he is being talked up ...
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Oct 05, 2008; BRIAN LOGAN ... Close-up With three new plays, the 27-year-old aims to change theface of theatreland Exploring Yoruban cosmology, trawling through New York drag clubsand rebuilding the spirit of New Orleans post-Katrina - Tarell AlvinMcCraney's life is nothing if not varied. The 27-year-old ...
Tings ain't what they used to be
Oct 05, 2008; CRAIG MCLEAN ... Last year, the Ting Tings were just a couple of failed musiciansliving in an old mill in Salford. Now, on the eve of a sell-out UKtour, the whole world wants a piece of them. No wonder the strain isbeginning to tell ... Meet the coolest band in Britain, being very uncool. "This ...
Shattered
Oct 05, 2008; BENJAMIN WALLACE ... Hardy Rodenstock was a wine dealer of international renown. Nowhe stands accused of having forged the most famous bottles eversold, and the genteel world of rare wine is still trying to pick upthe pieces Driving down from Munich in February 2006, I passed through theBavarian ...
The fugitive
Oct 05, 2008; JONATHAN ROMNEY ... In 1977, the director Roman Polanski was prosecuted for havingunlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. Now, a controversial filmasks: was it a perversion of justice? Roman Polanski knew what he was doing when he named his 1984memoir Roman. Fortuitously, the word also means "novel" in ...
It's the autopsy of the alkies
Oct 05, 2008; CHRISTOPHER FOWLER ... Fiction You'll need a strong stomach for Self's stories Liver: Afictional organ with a surface anatomy of four lobes By Will SelfPenguin Pounds 18.99 As the literary equivalent of Francis Bacon, Will Selfcontinually challenges readers with biological overload. In Liver hehas ...
From dusk till dawn
Oct 05, 2008; MATT THORNE ... Photography Prince's first book gives a weird insight into theworld of this workaholic and cryptic pop star 21 Nights By Princeand Randee St Nicholas Atria Pounds 30 Luton airport has never looked as glamorous as it does in theglossy pages of Prince's first book, a collection of ...
Poetry in brief
Oct 05, 2008; Stephen Knight ... Public Dream by Frances Leviston Picador, Pounds 8.99 "Humbles", the visceral opener to Frances Leviston's debutcollection, recalls masterpieces by Robin Robertson and WilliamStafford. That it survives such comparisons is evidence of how gooda writer Leviston already is. Beginning ...
Call him Ishmael
Oct 05, 2008; DOUG JOHNSTONE ... Natural history A writer follows in Herman Melville's wake,hunting for meaning in the unknowable whale Leviathan or, The WhaleBy Philip Hoare Fourth Estate Pounds 18.99 Philip Hoare is obsessed with whales. Not only that, he'sobsessed with a fictional character, Captain Ahab, ...
More tales of the city
Oct 05, 2008; RAFFAELLA BARKER ... Fiction In Manhattan, a good address is everything One FifthAvenue By Candace Bushnell Little, Brown Pounds 12.99 Hooray - here's some fun, girls! Not a book club offering or aworthy tome for self improvement, but a dollop of unashamedindulgence. Out with the violet creams, and ...
Can polish last three weeks?
Oct 05, 2008; Feelgood ... Your weekly health and beauty check-up Under the microscope ...'Everlasting' nail varnish From Pounds 50 In theory As "everlasting" as nail varnish gets, Nails Inc's "3Week Manicure" (available nationwide; for stores visitwww.nailsinc.com) promises chip-free polish for, er, three ...
Niina Makin
Oct 05, 2008; JAMES SHERWOOD ... Occupation Primary-school teacher Age 24 Personal style MissCongenialty My style James Sherwood This page is no stranger to drama queens, fashionqueens and the downright bizarre - so you appear as a breath of veryfresh air. For once we can talk about clothes that don't ...
At cross purposes
Oct 05, 2008; MURROUGH O'brien ... History A pact between an obscure Pope and a Dark Ages emperorled to gay weddings and Voltaire Millennium By Tom Holland Little,Brown Pounds 25 Great turning points in history are two a penny, and the questionof why Western Europe won its battle with just about everyone elsehas ...
It's all in the mind
Oct 05, 2008; ESTHER WALKER ... Struggle to recall names and faces? So did Ed Cooke until a spellin hospital turned him into a Master of Memory. Here, he shares thesecret of his amazing powers Most people stuck in hospital watch TV. Or they read crimethrillers, stare out of the window and listen to the radio ....