Fiction Fiction Class menagerie FIONA O’CONNOR assesses a dense and overpopulated novel that isn’t satire and doesn’t go deep
Theatre review Thursday 09th May 2024 Theatre review The mother, the daughter, her lover and their poet SIMON PARSONS marvels at a production of Williams’s early masterpiece that transforms the play into a symbolic slow dance of tensions, fears and desires
Book Review Monday 06th May 2024 Book Review A dazzling period pastiche ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a fiction that offers luminous insights into the complexities of being human
Music Review Monday 06th May 2024 Music Review ‘The day jazz washed away the dust of everyday life*’ CHRIS SEARLE pops into his local for some serendipitous jazz goings-on
Gig review Sunday 05th May 2024 Gig review A night not to be forgotten in a hurry MICHAL BONCZA reviews Cairokee gig at the London Barbican
Books Sunday 05th May 2024 Books The fallacy of work worship ALAN McGUIRE recommends a book that tries to shift our understanding of work and our relationship to it
Exhibition review Friday 03rd May 2024 Exhibition review Reimagining the unimaginable Artist JOHN MARC ALLEN talks to Andy Hedgecock about his exhibition inspired by Dr Strangelove and the Atomic Age
Books Friday 03rd May 2024 Books A woman for all seasons SYLVIA HIKINS is enthralled by a biography of an extraordinary, 19th-century mould-breaker who influenced policies regarding the status of women in society
Books Friday 03rd May 2024 Books Unmatched for scope, scale and ambition At times I was baffled, incredulous, irritated but I never stopped loving this milestone of 21st century science fiction for a single page, writes MAT COWARD