Editors' picks
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Mick Jagger becomes an OAP next month but, like so many 'new pensioners', he shows no signs of acting his age. Simon Garfield on how the baby boomers refused to grow up
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When Tim is sent to commentary
Andrew Anthony on television: Wimbledon BBC1, Euro 2008 semi-final, Top Gear BBC2, Gok's Fashion Fix C4, Upstairs Downstairs Love C4
Features and reviews p2
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From flappers to WAGs in 80 years
This Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of the Equal Franchise Act which finally gave women in Britain the same voting rights as men. What's changed, asks Ally Carnwath
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This party's such a drag
When smokers met up to bemoan the one-year-old ban, Lynn Barber found the company made her choke - David Hockney excepted -
Message in a giant bottle
Yinka Shonibare's nautical plan for the fourth plinth -
Labels of love
While the US celebrates 4 July this Friday, record labels will toast a different independence with the inaugural 'Independents Day', celebrating the role of indie labels
Features and reviews p3
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From Prodigies to golden oldies
Factfile: Different age groups
Features and reviews p4
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Jonathan Aitken
I actually feel a slight relief that I'm not 25 anymore... I've found peace
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Rose Tremain
I'm going to be 65 on 2 August. I felt more trepidation about 60. I suppose 65 is considered retirement age, but writers don't retire
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Des Lynam
Age definitely matters; you can't roll the clock back, you do get older, your flesh gets weaker, you can't fight that
Features and reviews p5
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John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
I didn't reach 65 with any degree of trepidation. I feel happier now and more on course than I did at 45
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Anne Jones, artist
I would dispute the idea that 65 is elderly. It doesn't feel particularly old, and you have the opportunity to do things you couldn't do when you went to work
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Margaret Ellison, yoga teacher
It's my mantra that people of my age have had a wonderful period of history to live through
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Ramesh Verma, founder of Ekta
It makes me angry when people ask when I'm going to retire. Why should I?
Features and reviews p6
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Dave McManus, landlord
I'm 65 on 16 July. It does feel like a landmark because I thought I'd be retired by 60
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Ageing, the facts
Growing old in the arts | The economy and the grey pound | How the body changes
Features and reviews p7
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Lie back and think of Europe
When England failed to qualify for Euro 2008, the Booker prize-winning novelist AS Byatt wondered if she would enjoy the tournament
Features and reviews p9
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Turning the tables
Rebecca Lenkiewicz once worked as a table dancer in a Soho club. Now she is the first woman ever to have a play performed on the main stage at the National Theatre
Features and reviews p10
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In bed with the boys from Fife
Gregory Burke's Iraq war play is still both gripping and moving, writes David Smith
Features and reviews p13
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Wanted
Philip French: Laden with special effects, this is an idiotic action movie -
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
Philip French: It's self-denigration in the manner of Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, but much less funny -
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Philip French: It isn't as good as the first film, but children will enjoy it and there's a profusion of special effects -
Female Agents
Philip French's film of the week: Four Frenchwomen put up a fine resistance in this Second World War tale. And despite every known war movie cliche, it's still an exciting ride
Features and reviews p14
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New and dizzy heights
With a different date and a fresh focus, Edinburgh's movie week was distinguished by a fine film about France's high-wire legend
Features and reviews p15
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It's all change in the second city... again
Architecture: Central Birmingham is being dramatically made over and this time they're determined to get it right -
A true horror movie
Luke Jennings ponders thiis challenging stuff, which prompts several angry walk-outs
Features and reviews p16
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Shame he's a one-trick pony
Art: Richard Prince has been horsing about with signs and signifiers since the Seventies. But the joke's beginning to wear a bit thin -
Just listen to that lovely lob!
Radio: This was 5 Live's week. Not only was it Wimbledon-ing fit to bust, but the station briefly became the nation's sole live broadcaster of Euro 2008
Features and reviews p17
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Festival Watch
Sonar Festival 2008, Barcelona, Spain -
Plenty of light - but give us more heat
Rock: Thom Yorke and his cerebral troupe fed the head but not the heart in a London park. Fortunately, My Bloody Valentine had already laid on visceral thrills
Features and reviews p18
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Happy birthday, Nelson
Pop: The stars came out, Amy sang - and Posh got booed -
When in doubt, bash Bush
Classical: Not even superb music can save a long-winded, crudely polemical Candide
Features and reviews p19
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Dangerous times with Beck and the Mouse
CD of the week: Beck, Modern Guilt -
Be Kind Rewind 2008
DVD of the week: Be Kind Rewind 2008
Features and reviews p20
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A lost weekend in the north
Review: Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
Posthumous publishing is often a bad idea, but Janet Frame's early novel about a nightmarish 48 hours is a piercing, poetic revelation
Features and reviews p21
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The unassuming question master
Review: The Studs Terkel Interviews by Studs Terkel
America's foremost oral historian moves from ordinary people to the stars of stage and screen -
Face to face with real Miami vice
Review: Crime by Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh's Crime is a return to form, says Euan Ferguson
Features and reviews p22
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A time when every picture told a story
Review: Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook
Using six of Vermeer's greatest paintings, Timothy Brook explores the roots of world trade -
Beneath the polished chrome...
Review: The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer Andrew Sean Greer's novel takes an alternative look at 1950s America
Features and reviews p23
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It's not a black and white issue
Review: Strange Fruit by Kenan Malik
The two sides in the race debate have more in common than you'd think, says this vigorous study -
Welcome to the daily planet
Review: When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
From everyday experience, David Sedaris conjures a series of richly witty essays
Features and reviews p24
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A broad abroad
Review: Angel of Brooklyn by Janette Jenkins
An American woman in Lancashire is the focus of this enjoyable novel set in the First World War -
Talk about the clown jewels ...
Review: The Circus by Noel Daniel
A gargantuan collection of photographs celebrates the circus -
The Soviet union they couldn't break
Review: Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews
A touching love story unfolds against communist tyranny -
War notes
Review: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Steven Galloway's novel set in Bosnia mixes real and imagined characters
Features and reviews p25
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Alive languages
Rachel Redford on Look We Have Coming to Dover! -
Into exile
James Purdon on Children of the Revolution | Away -
Lord of the dance
Luke Jennings on Rudolf Nureyev -
Lost leader
James Purdon on Richard Milhous Nixon | Wild | Four Seasons in Rome | The Ministry of Special Cases | Prince Rupert
