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GREG WILLIAMS’ candid portraits of movie stars have appeared in Vogue and Vanity Fair. His photographs, films and many other activities can be accessed at gregwilliams.com. ‘TOM HARDY IN PIECES’, PAGE 92 RICHARD DOWKER has taken pictures for Interview, Dazed and 10 Magazine, among many other publications. ‘TEENAGE DREAMS’, PAGE 136 MICK BROWN is a writer for The Daily Telegraph and the author of books including Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: the Rise and Fall of Phil Spector. ‘TEENAGE DREAMS’, PAGE 136 ANDREW O’HAGAN is editor-at-large for the London Review of Books. His most recent novel, Mayflies, winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize, is out now in paperback. ‘ALL FAITH AND WONDER’, PAGE 81 JOSHUA FERRIS is the author of Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and…

The autumn/winter menswear collections are always abundant in boots but over recent seasons the footwear has been getting more robust. The genesis likely came in February 2019 as the designer Daniel Lee presented his inaugural runway show for Bottega Veneta. It was heavy on black biker leathers and the kind of boots even Mad Max might deem a little outré. Utilitarian footwear boomed. But even with that acorn, the most prescient fashion minds may have struggled to see where our feet would find themselves today. Wellington boots are in. Not just regular boots with rubber detailing (although those are in too), but proper puddle-splashers, the kind of boots you’d reluctantly don at a festival; the kind you’d wear to a country pub if you were down from the city and…

MY LIFE AS A CAT BEGAN ONE EVENING when I was in my early twenties. I was a student and had signed up to a catering agency that considered itself at the fancier end of things. They spotted my Sloaney first name, ignored my grumpy Northern surname, and invited me in for training. In an office block in Putney, they taught me how to do that thing where you carry several plates up your arm, which I still occasionally dust off at dinner time, and that other thing where you pick up peas with a spoon and a fork in the same hand, which I do not. I learned how to correctly deposit a dish (“loaf on the left”) and remove it (“rubbish from the right”), so that I could…

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Is it odd, or lazy, or even negligent, to ask a journalist to interview the same subject on numerous occasions, for multiple cover stories, for different issues of the same publication, each article appearing at a distance of a few years? And, meanwhile, to commission a photographer to take that same subject’s picture, repeatedly, to illustrate those separate stories? It’s not something we make a habit of. It’s typically felt, in the case of the celebrity interview — oh, little esteemed journalistic endeavour! (I write as a veteran practitioner) — that once is enough. Maybe next time, get a fresh perspective from a writer new to the subject, a different angle from another photographer? As in so many respects, Tom Hardy’s is a special case. This issue marks the fourth…

WHEN YOU FIRST LEARN ABOUT GREY ROCKING, you will feel like you have been granted a superpower. I’m not given to hyperbole, but I can only compare the impact it had to the moment I discovered the mute function on Twitter. I’ll earn nothing in commission from this claim, but I’m confident that the following 900 or so words could change your life. To give its formal title, it’s the grey rock technique. That name was coined in 2012 by an American mental-health blogger called Skylar. She had not long ended a 25-year relationship with a man she came to identify as a psychopath and malignant narcissist. (This is why she wrote under a pseudonym: her ex-partner had emptied out their bank accounts and taken out life insurance policies on…

STAR MAKER BY OLAF STAPLEDON, published in 1937, is perhaps the most important work of science-fiction that, until recently, I had never heard of. Stapledon’s work is widely cited as being a major influence on Arthur C Clarke, Stanisław Lem and, in the sense of inspiring him to write novels that served essentially as rebuttals, CS Lewis; impressive, given that he never saw himself as a science-fiction writer. Stapledon was in many ways the quintessential aimless intellectual. He got a history degree at Oxford, spent a period bouncing around among his family’s shipping firm, social work and some teaching gigs before getting a philosophy PhD at Liverpool and settling in to split his time between lecturing, writing and activism. Writing epic, galaxy-spanning masterworks of science-fiction seems to have been something…

1 The part where he’s not there TOM HARDY’S TRAILER IS STATIONED in the carpark of a film studio on the outskirts of Cardiff. It’s one of the flashier kind, with a kitchenette and seated area and some other rooms at the back I don’t see which presumably contain a toilet and a bed or, I don’t know, chaise longue. The seated area has a wipe-clean, upholstered bench down one side, which I’m sitting on, and a white leatherette armchair in the opposite corner which, it must be said, has the slight quality of a throne. There are letterbox windows high up on either side, a flat screen TV on the wall, and a strange mirrored panel in the ceiling. There is a bag of sweets on the table by…

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To reach south London’s Blackbook Winery, one must negotiate a narrow corridor between warehouses, dodging reversing delivery vans, before finding an unmarked entrance beneath Battersea’s rumbling railway arches. “You don’t mind if I stick a few labels on while we talk, do you?” asks Sergio Verrillo, welcoming me into an industrial space stacked high with wine barrels and empty bottles. He’s dressed in a faded T-shirt, cargo shorts and flip-flops, already peeling back a roll of stickers in Mondrian primary colours, the finishing touch to a batch of his 2019 Chardonnay. Founded in 2017 by Verrillo, an American expat and former sommelier in high-end restaurants including Maze on Grosvenor Square, and his wife, Lynsey, who has a day job in the corporate world, Blackbook is an independent English wine producer…

IN THE SPRING of 2012, the design studio Barnbrook faced an unenviable dilemma: how to brand a product that had spent more than 40 years consciously resisting all branding? The product was David Bowie. More specifically, Jonathan Barnbrook and Jonathan Abbott were tasked with developing a graphic look for the Bowie exhibition due to open at the V&A in London the following year, the summation of a life like no other. But how best to portray Bowie in a manner both strikingly new and instantly familiar? One answer was colour: the whole look of the show would be awash with orange — the orange of Ziggy Stardust’s hair, the orange of Low. Another solution would be a typeface for the signage needed to guide the visitors through the show and…