21ST-CENTURY POETRY 21ST-CENTURY POETRY Captured An adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s translation of Ovid’s Amores 1.2, with Donald Trump’s fervent supporters in mind
EXHIBITION ONLINE Thursday 21st Jan 2021 EXHIBITION ONLINE Artless anti-life ANGUS REID is unimpressed by the reactionary undertow in an exhibition of melancholic Perthshire landscapes and photographs
OPINION Tuesday 19th Jan 2021 OPINION Same tune, different message As events in the US have shown, there’s nothing new about the the right wing subverting radical and popular music for its own ends, says OSKAR COX JENSEN
21ST-CENTURY POETRY Thursday 21st Jan 2021 21ST-CENTURY POETRY There is no alternative Every time someone says there is no alternativeTell them the forests are burningThe skies are filled with blood chocking smog
BOOKS Thursday 21st Jan 2021 BOOKS Everything Must Change ‘Pick 'n' mix’ proposals dilute menu for radical political action following coronavirus crisis
THEATRE ONLINE Thursday 21st Jan 2021 THEATRE ONLINE The Snow Queen Polly Lister a marvel in solo-show version of Hans Christian Andersen classic
PHOTOGRAPHY Thursday 21st Jan 2021 PHOTOGRAPHY Images of the black US experience continue to provoke and inspire JOHN GREEN recommends an exhibition by a groundbreaking black photography collective
MUSIC Thursday 21st Jan 2021 MUSIC Album reviews Latest releases from Micko & the Mellotronics, Billie Joe Armstrong and Paul McCartney
CINEMA Thursday 21st Jan 2021 CINEMA Film round-up Van Connor and Maria Duarte review Dear Comrades!, Blithe Spirit, Outside the Wire, Stardust, and Imperial Blue
FILM OF THE WEEK Wednesday 20th Jan 2021 FILM OF THE WEEK One Night in Miami MARIA DUARTE recommends a fictional reimagining of the night that four icons met – at a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement
LITERARY HISTORY Wednesday 13th Jan 2021 LITERARY HISTORY Salutary reminder of the 'Boulogne sore throat' What Charles Dickens wrote about the diphtheria crisis of 1856 in the French port all sounds very familiar at a time of lockdown, says LEON LITVACK
