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My kitchen is filled with seemingly nondescript objects that mean a great deal to me: my mum’s wooden-handled fish slice and masher; her pans; the knives and forks I used while I was growing up; a tea

CThi Nguyen is a gamer. Many people are gamers—artists, technologists, business leaders, even certain journalists—but many others still hold their noses at the term, as though there’s something overwh

A CURATION OF THE BEST DESIGN AND HOME IDEAS

My last place was lovely but very neutral, and I’d always held back a bit with decorating. But this home felt different. Although the interior was stuck in the 1990s, it had great bones. The big rooms

C. Thi Nguyen The Score How to stop playing someone else’s game 368pp. Allen Lane. £25. Games and metrics are cousins of a sort. They both give us targets to pursue, often in the form of numerical sco

Rolling around at the speed of sound in ONCE UPON A KATAMARI