best of 2012

The Year in Pictures: Autumn

10 frames from around the world that capture the best of fall, 2012

The Year in Pictures: Summer

11 frames from around the world

The Year in Pictures: Spring

Our 10 favourite frames from March to June in 2012

The Year in Pictures: Winter

9 frames that round up January to March 2012

Dig in to 2013

One of the best things about food? Reading about it.

TV: What we’ll be watching in 2013

Jaime Weinman offers some predictions on the year ahead. Warning: as with free broadcast TV, you get what you pay for …

Imagine it’s 1992 and you get to eat dinner in 2012

A round-up of today’s food trends that, for better or worse, may survive in 2013

The top 10 royal stories of 2012

Bare breasts (and a bum), a drenched jubilee, not to mention a royal pregnancy (need we say whose?)

Best fiction books of 2012

Our favourite six titles of the year

The year in moving pictures

The top 10 films of 2012

From M to Pi, Brian D. Johnson with the best of the year and some Oscar predictions

2012: Outrageous attacks on science

Julia Belluz on Dr. Oz and coffee-related health claims

Best nonfiction books of 2012

Our 14 favourite titles of the year