An interview from issue ten. Mia Hansen-Løve's teenage love affair ended over a decade ago. But first loves aren't easy to forget, and the film director inhabits the emotional present tense while remembering hers. She says, "It started at the age of fourteen and ended at eighteen. I desperately loved a boy. It is a part of my life, years later. I have not forgotten it at all. The experience . . .

You don't expect to see a biscuit on display in a museum, among the sculptures and paintings. But at Reading Museum, I find myself staring at just that. It is large, round and a hundred years old. Impressed into the dusty topside of this centenarian cookie is the name "Huntley & Palmers." They once made biscuits for the royal family, for soldiers going to war and for people at home in the kitchen. Fifty-two digestives are eaten a second in Britain. Yet, day in . . .