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A Catalan love story: ‘Clos Erasmus’s maker and its US importer met years after they began their commercial relationship, and by 1997 they were married’
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‘The best bottarga is made with the roe of an unfashionable fish, the grey mullet’
Col Needham: ‘Everything about me is movies’
How the founder of IMDb turned an obsession into the world’s biggest online movie database
Douglas Coupland: Drugs
I like pills. I like the idea of pills. They confer a superpower on you. Sadly, I don’t take many . . .
Where cowboys struggle: the new West
When photographer Lucas Foglia went in search of America’s old frontier, he found a divided land where cowboys struggle to make a living amid industrial-scale mining
The joy of stress
Yes, it’s the modern plague – but anxiety also makes you feel creative, alert and alive. Is it perverse to thrive on it, asks Katie Roiphe
Astronomy with Max Tegmark
Gale force winds sabotaged the astrophysicist’s plan to use the Royal Observatory’s historic refracting telescope. But just seeing it was thrilling enough
Science: The vine that’s divine for insects
A study in the Amazon forest shows the startling interdependence of two species of flowering vine, 14 species of flies and 14 species of parasitic wasps
‘I’m captaining a team in the Street Child World Cup’
Monica, 15, wants to represent all children who live on El Salvador’s streets and tell them not to give up
How useful is self-knowledge?
‘While becoming more aware of your inner landscape may be fascinating, it need not change the way you act and live’
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The Inventory: Eleanor Catton
‘I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education should be free,’ says the youngest Man Booker Prize winner