Arts

AS the losers relax their collective rictus and Tinseltown sweeps up its tinsel, it's time to ask: What's the point of the Oscars?

CHRIS SEARLE witnesses a south London jazz legend bring the Barbican centre to life with some unique swinging sounds and a bit of musical camaraderie.

GORDON PARSONS explains how poet John Milton stood up all his life for free speech, revolutionary politics and religious liberties.

The Donegal woman of the title, Margaret Campbell, left her home in the foothills of the Donegal mountains at the age of 12, hired out to brutal farmer Allen to live and work in conditions of unspeakable cruelty and misery.

ENCHANTING, moving and compelling, Sara Gruen's third novel Water for Elephants is easily the most cinematic and atmospheric novel to be released since Angela Carter's Wise Children.

FIRST things first. These are not the memories of an actual killer. Although it is clear that what Stephen Marks and his ilk do can be as effective to someone's reputation.

IT is 1950 in middle-class Lima and Lily is a whirlwind mambo dancer with dark, beguiling eyes, a small mouth and full lips.

Poem of the week: Focus by Dinah Livingstone

TIM REDFERN explains why LGBTQ history and culture should be cherished in order to look to a positive future.

ROBERT Glasper is a young pianist from Houston, Texas, who now lives in Brooklyn. He has adventurously brought together the worlds of hip hop and jazz.