Berlin Film Festival 2025 Berlin Film Festival 2025 Migrants highlighted in Festival opener RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
Books Tuesday 18th Feb 2025 Books Gauloises smoken here FIONA O’CONNOR recommends an accessible and entertaining survey of post-war French philosophy and its relation to contemporary capitalism
Theatre review Tuesday 18th Feb 2025 Theatre review Neighbourhood black watch SIMON PARSONS applauds an insightful state-of-the-nation play that explores the growing class divide in South Africa
Album review Monday 17th Feb 2025 Album review Outstanding blend of piano, flute and brass SIMON DUFF reviews a new composition by German composer and pianist Florian Weber that blurs the line between where improvisation ends and composition begins
Album reviews Monday 17th Feb 2025 Album reviews Jazz album reviews with Chris Searle: February 17, 2025 New releases from The Jim Mullen Quartet, Caroline Kraabel/John Edwards, and Matthew Muneses/Riza Printup
Exhibition Review Friday 14th Feb 2025 Exhibition Review Wet Mud JAN WOOLF wallows in the historical mulch of post WW2 West Germany, and the resistant, challenging sense made of it by Anselm Kiefer
Theatre Review Friday 14th Feb 2025 Theatre Review Come down the farm PAUL DONOVAN applauds an adaptation that draws out the contemporary relevance of George Orwell’s satire
Opinion Friday 14th Feb 2025 Opinion How to rehearse the revolution ANA ISABEL NUNES points to the empowering legacy of Augusto Boal’s Theatre Of The Oppressed
Book Review Friday 14th Feb 2025 Book Review Remember Ghassan Kanafani CARLOS MARTINEZ welcomes the publication of the writings of the great Palestinian author, political theorist and spokesman for the PFLP
Book Review Thursday 13th Feb 2025 Book Review (may cause offense) GAVIN O’TOOLE chuckles through a guide to politically correct usage of the literary canon
Book Review Friday 14th Feb 2025 Book Review Africa in its own right ROGER McKENZIE welcomes an important contribution to the history of Africa, telling the story in its own right rather than in relation to Europeans