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This issue brings a bold new masthead, a revamped contributor page and a host of subtle refinements. As ever, we change gradually, believing that in publishing, as in life, one either progresses or retreats.
Blown away by his portfolio, our writer braced for someone intimidating when she telephoned Dawid Dawod. To her pleasant surprise, the man who answered was friendly and down-to-earth, happier to discuss his family than himself.
In a quiet London hotel lobby, the former Al Jazeera director-general reflects on the relief of stepping away from relentless responsibility, and on a career spent watching the screen so the world could too.
Suppose you have more money than you could spend in a lifetime, possibly two. What do you do with it once you are gone? A wry meditation on philanthropy, legacy and the choices great wealth leaves.
Why did dynamite's inventor endow a prize for peace? Some see atonement for his explosive legacy, others the influence of pacifist Bertha von Suttner. We unravel the enduring mystery behind Alfred Nobel's celebrated award.
A dispiriting encounter in a London shop forces an unwelcome truth: a forty-six-year-old man, however youthful he feels, is fooling no one. A rueful confession about age, vanity and the padding that quietly accumulates.
With an eponymous label and the creative directorship of Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs has his hands full. Raya Jalabi explores how he straddled both worlds, even branding New York's West Village with stores bearing his name.
There was a time when an artist had to die to be noticed; just ask Van Gogh. Today, living artists who have appropriated whole movements enjoy pop-star fame, yet seem overtaken by their endless self-reproduction.
Based in London but forever bound for Saudi Arabia, the creative director explains the arts organisation's evocative name and how its work stays cutting-edge yet at times distinctly rural, neither fringe nor mainstream.
As the year closes, we look back fondly on the trials, tribulations and inspiration behind each issue, with a candid peek at the mishaps and ironies encountered along the way, including one desert border.
Hailed as the Nabokov of contemporary Arabic literature, the prolific Alem proves surprisingly modest about her success. Popular is a tricky word, she says, preferring to be appreciated by more intellectual readers.
Carole Cadwalladr visits Jimmy Carter and finds nothing of the grand residence one imagines for a former leader of the free world, but rather the unassuming home of a moderately successful junior accountant.