Arts

Jazz with CHRIS SEARLE.

MAT COWARD takes a look at Edward Wilson's second novel The Envoy, Scott Frost's Point of No Return and Robert Barnard's latest mystery Last Post.

JUDITH AMANTHIS is disappointed that the ethereal paintings of artist Peter Doig have become a commodity for the super-rich.

AS THE old joke goes, the trouble with deconstructing zombie films is that they fall apart.

POEM OF THE WEEK: Learing Irish by Ross Bradshaw.

RED FOLK looks at a solidarity exercise is raising much-needed funds for Cuban musicians.

ONE OF the most progressive features of the last decade of jazz has been the cohort of powerful pianists from Latin America who have made a new contribution to the music.

CHRISTINE LINDEY is moved by a striking collection of 'photographic sentences' by long-time political designer and teacher Peter Kennard.

TRANSLATING Shakespeare into modern dress has become something of a contemporary cliche, though Shakespeare's own theatre always used the dress of his own time, even when togas would have been more appropriate.

POEM OF THE WEEK: Remembering Michael O'Riordan by Robert Mitchell.