fronting

• EDITOR’S LETTER
• OLIVIER THEYSKENS: the puppet master
• DOGS: a short story by Arthur Bradford
• A NATURE SO SINGULAR: in the biotech revolution, little monsters have become a reality. through forensic science, artist Christine Borland examines the nature of good and evil
• BANG ON THE NOSE: designer perfumes are a multi-million pound industry. even though saturation point is at hand and boredom hot on its heels, Ann Gottlieb is a professional nose who sniffs out the new and exciting
• LOSING MY RELIGION: black supremacy was born out of the slavery of the nineteenth century and the racial and economic exploitation of the twentieth century
• APROPOS THIS AND THAT: by Roy Grayson
• SCULPTING IN TIME: visionary Russian director Andrey Tarkovski on the concept of time – consciousness or a reality?
• UZBEKISTAN BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: In Uzbekistan, Islamic fundamentalism is one of the few things left to do when you get out of prison and can’t get a job
• WRESTLERS AND ANIMAL FACES: accused of being the worst tourist destination on earth, Bulgaria is a former communist state where the Mafia mixes with monasteries, minarets and heroin
• DECLINE AND FALL: unsustainable corporate-consumer greed will destroy the U.S. body politic, argues Morris Berman in his recent book, The Twilight of American Culture
• CROWD CONTROL: the militarisation of policing started as early as 1861 in Britain. it is only since the 1930s that it became an institutional part of statecraft, and spread all over the world
• FACING MECCA: photography by Chris Howgate