Tag: issue-84
Craft November 2022
Taking A Leaf Out Of His Own Books
What’s so special about the cigar makers Arturo Fuente? Author and connoisseur Aaron Sigmond has compiled the evidence…
Icons October 2022
Life was shit. everybody was horrible. but wasn't he wonderful!
Jacques Brel sang of sex, death and bruised romance with the kind of mordant humour that’s to die for. ‘It is the intensity of life,’ the Belgian chanson decided, ‘not the duration.’
Style October 2022
'I felt that my life was changing in those days, to be on a show of that scale'.
Shubham Saraf ’s annus mirabilis culminates in the release of Shantaram, the major adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’ bestselling book. Saraf ’s decision to enrol in clown school is looking wiser by the day…
Style October 2022
Rural Affairs
It takes only a short time to escape the city, and once sequestered in the countryside, myriad pursuits await. Standards mustn’t slip, though.
Style October 2022
Chris Pine, Hollywood’s man of the moment, is Issue 84's Cover Star
They said it would never happen… and, thanks to Covid, it nearly didn’t. But finally the stars aligned and The Rake caught up with Chris Pine. Hollywood’s man of the moment talked to Tom Chamberlin about the power of personality and the movie that has been on everyone’s lips this autumn…